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 Association.
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).
Note: the list includes clubs that played at republican competitions before 1959 and the amateur or KFK competitions after 1964. Until 1954, Cherkasy Oblast teams represented the Kyiv Oblast.
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