Meaning & use
feeder club
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Meaning
nouncountablesport
A smaller sports club that regularly supplies players to a larger, more prestigious club.
Grammar: Countable: a feeder club, two feeder clubs.
Patterns
- feeder club for someone
- feeder club to someone
The young striker moved from his local feeder club to the Premier League giants.
Many top teams have a feeder club in a lower division where young players gain experience.
The feeder club receives a small fee each time one of its players is sold on.
Word forms
| plural | feeder clubs |
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Common combinations
- a feeder club for
- That team is a feeder club for several top-flight sides.
- become a feeder club
- After relegation, they became a feeder club for bigger teams.
- feeder club system
- The feeder club system helps young talent develop.
Synonyms and how they differ
- nursery club
- Similar meaning but less common; often used in rugby.
- farm team
- Used mainly in North American sports; a team that develops players for a parent club.
Word family
- feeder noun
- Something that supplies or leads to something else, e.g., a feeder school.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'feeder club' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Option 3 correctly describes a smaller club supplying players to a larger one. Option 1 is possible but doesn't show the typical relationship. Option 2 is wrong because a person cannot be a feeder club. Option 4 is wrong because 'feeder club' is not about cooking.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “feeder club”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.