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Reserve team

Meaning in football (soccer), with examples

nounCommon term

In football (soccer), reserve team means: A club's secondary team, providing playing opportunities outside the main first team.

In Turkish: rezerv takım

How it is used

Reserve team arrangements vary; do not assume every reserve competition has the same age rules.

Example sentences

  1. He played for the reserve team while trying to win back his first-team place.

    The secondary side provides matches beyond the main line-up.

  2. The reserve team trained with the senior squad before its own fixture.

    Training together does not make the two match teams identical.

Common collocations

  • play for the reserve team
  • reserve-team fixture
  • reserve-team player
  • squadAll the players available to a team for a season or a competition, from whom the starting eleven and the substitutes are chosen.
  • line-upThe list of players a team starts a match with, usually including their positions, published about an hour before kick-off.

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