Cherkasy Arena, Multipurpose stadium in Cherkasy, Ukraine.
Cherkasy Arena is a football stadium on Smilyanska Street, with an oval of plastic seats in blue, red and white. White seats on the north stand spell "ФК ДНІПРО"; on the south stand they form "1957", the year it opened. The pitch runs north to south, surrounded by running tracks and sectors for jumps and throws.
The stadium opened on 9 November 1957 with a match between local Kolhospnyk and Dynamo Kyiv, which the visitors won 3:1. It was first named after the Kolhospnyk sports society, renamed after the Leninist Komsomol on 9 May 1958, became the Central Stadium in the early 1990s, and received its current name on 25 August 2020.
The stadium opened in 1957 as Kolhospnyk, named after the regional sports council that initiated its construction. On 9 May 1958 it was renamed after the Leninist Komsomol, in the early 1990s it became the Central Stadium, and on 25 August 2020 it took the name Cherkasy Arena. The white seats of the north stand spell out "FK DNIPRO", while the south stand shows "1957".
The ground is at Smilianska Street 78, with the pitch oriented north to south and stands forming an oval around it. The main alley holds information boards with league tables and the history of football in the Cherkasy region. Reconstruction of the running tracks and two car parks for 250–300 places is planned but not yet in service.
The white seats on the north stand spell out "FC DNIPRO", while the south stand shows "1957", the year the stadium opened. The seats are blue, red and white, the colours of Dnipro. The pitch runs north to south inside an oval of stands.
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