Football Federation of Cherkasy Oblast
Football Federation of Cherkasy Oblast (FFCHO) is a football governing body in the region of Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. The federation is a collective member of the Football Federation of Ukraine. Created in 1954 as part of the Soviet Ukraine, the region conducts its own football competitions including championship and cup competition. Before 1954, some teams competed and won football competitions of the Kyiv Oblast Football Federation. The region's main professional football team is FC Dnipro Cherkasy which throughout years several times has dissolved and later revived. The recent reorganization took place in 2018 and  turned the club into Cherkashchyna–Akademiya. The club moved out of the city of Cherkasy to suburbs where is located its farm club. Beside Dnipro, Cherkasy Oblast also was represented at professional level by its regional titles record holder FC Lokomotyv Smila. Among other notable clubs in oblast there was Temp Cherkasy (played in 1970-80s) and FC LNZ-Lebedyn (near Shpola). The region's main football arena is the Central City Stadium in Cherkasy, which was built in 1957 when the main football team obtain its status of team of masters (professional team).