FC Cherkashchyna

FC Cherkashchyna (Ukrainian: ФК Черкащина) is a professional Ukrainian football club from the city of Cherkasy. The club's home ground was Central Stadium which was refurbished in 2003 and has a capacity of 10,321.

The club became the first that managed to reach semi-finals of the Ukrainian Cup in 2014, while playing in the Ukrainian Second League.

Established in 2010, the club was restructured in 2014. The club was dissolved in July 2018 and reformed as another new project based on its academy in Bilozirya.

History

Khodak Cherkasy

In 2004, there was registered club FC Khodak Cherkasy at a local food factory owned by Volodymyr Khodak. The factory team existed at least since 1998, but was registered as Khodak in 2004. Previously in 1983–1991, Volodymyr Khodak worked in field of sports in Cherkasy Oblast and headed the regional branch of Soviet DOSAAF. The new club played at regional competitions of Cherkasy Oblast. Beside own football team, the Khodak company also sponsored the city's professional basketball team Cherkaski Mavpy. In the late October of 2009 Khodak lost to another amateur club Karpaty Yaremche at the Ukrainian Amateur Cup final consisted of two legs. After Ukrainian League Cup (2010) the club has disappeared.

Slavutych – Cherkaskyi Dnipro

In 2010, on initiative of the Cherkasy Oblast Governor Serhiy Tulub a new club was created under the name of Slavutych and supposedly without any relations to Dnipro. There is an idea that the new club was created based on former amateur club FC Khodak Cherkasy. In interview to regional sports newspaper "Cherkaskyi Sport" on 5 December 2019, the former player of Khodak acknowledged that the newly formed Slavutych was created based on Khodak. The club's vice-president became a leader of Party of Regions in Cherkasy Oblast Volodymyr Khodak.

In 2010, the new club applied for the Second League, but their application was denied. The deputy chairman of the

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