The football glossary is a page with a huge selection of football words, phrases and vocabulary that are organised in alphabetical order – it is like a football dictionary. You can find all kinds of football cliches, expressions and technical terms, as well as a variety of categories about many football-related subjects: transfers, football nicknames, match-day language, managers and much more.
R
- Rabona
- Rainbow laces
- (to) Reach an agreement
- (to) Receive a call up
- (to) Receive marching orders
- Recipe for disaster
- Red Devils
- (the) Red mist
- Referee
- (to) Register (a win)
- Reigning champions
- (to be) Relegated
- Relegation
- Relegation Zone
- Rescue a point
- Results go their way
- (to) Retain (a title/trophy)
- Retrospective action
- Return leg
- (to) Re-write the record books
- Rich vein of form
- (to) Ride a challenge
- (to) Ride your luck
- (to) Ring the changes
- Rival
- Road to Wembley
- Rollercoaster
- Romance of the cup
- (to) Romp home
- (To be) Rooted to the foot of the table
- (to) Root for
- (to) Rotate/Rotation
- Rout
- Route one
- Routine win
- Roy of the Rovers (stuff)
- to Rubbish
- (to) Rue missed chances
- (to) Rule out
- (to be) Ruled out
- (to) Run down the clock
- Run-in
- (to) Run out winners
- (to) Run riot
- (to) Run your socks off
- Runners-up
- Rusty
S
- (to) Sack
- (to) Salvage a point
- Saw their name in lights
- Scapegoat
- Schoolboy error
- Scissor kick
- Scorcher
- Scoreless draw
- Scout
- Scramble
- (to) Scrape into
- Scrappy
- (a) Screamer
- Scudetto
- Scuffed shot
- Scruff of the neck
- Scruffy finish
- (to) Seal
- (to) Seal a deal
- Season
- Second debut
- Second season syndrome
- Second string
- (to) Secure
- (to) Secure a point
- (a) Seed/Be Seeded
- (to) See off
- (to) See out the game
- Seen them given
- (la) Seleccion
- Semi-finalist
- (to) Send (s.o.) off
- (to be) Sent to the stands
- Serie A
- (to) Set up
- (to) Set up a chance or set up a goal
- (to) Set your sights on
- (a) Set piece
- Seven-goal thriller
- (to be) Sewn up
- (to) Shank
- (to) Share the spoils
- (to) Shepherd the ball
- Shimmy
- (to) Shine
- (to) Ship goals
- Shithousery (Dark arts)
- (a) Showdown
- (to be) Shot to pieces
- (a/to) Shoulder Barge (Charge)
- (to) Shoulder the blame
- (to) Shrug off a challenge
- (to) Shut-down
- (a) Shut-out
- (to) Shut up shop
- (to) Sign a new deal
- Sick as a parrot
- (to) Side-foot
- Sidelined
- (to) Sing the praises
- Sighter
- (to) Sign a player
- (to) Sign on a permanent deal
- Signing
- (to) Silence the critics
- Silverware
- Simulation
- (to) Sit deep
- (to) Sit out
- (to) Sit the keeper down
- (to) Sit up nicely
- Sitter
- (at) Sixes and sevens
- Six of one and half a dozen of the other
- Six pointer
- Skin of their teeth
- (to) Skip by/skip past/skip away from
- Skipper
- (to) Sky
- (to) Slam
- (to) Slice
- Slide rule pass
- Sloppy
- (to) Slot home
- (to) Slot into/in
- Slow starters
- (a/to) Slump
- Smash and grab
- Snapshot
- (to) Snatch
- (to) Sneak something
- (to) Sniff
- Snood
- Snowed off
- So much at stake
- (a) Soft goal
- (a) Soft penalty
- (a) Sorry performance
- (to) Spare the team’s blushes
- (to) Spark (a comeback)
- (to provide a) Spark
- Speculative long range shot
- Spell
- (to) Spill over
- (to) Spill the ball
- Spine
- Spirit of the game
- Sprain
- (to) Spray the ball
- (to) Spring the offside trap
- Spursy
- Squad
- (to) Squander a lead
- Square ball
- Squeaky-bum time
- (to) Squeeze past
- (to) Stab home
- (to) Stake a claim
- Stalemate
- (a) Stalwart
- (to) Stamp your authority on
- (to) Stand the ball up
- Standings
- Starting XI
- (to) Stay the course
- Stramash [forum]
- (to) Steer the ball home
- (to) Step down
- Step over
- (to) Stick it in the net
- Stonewall penalty
- Stoppage time
- Straight red
- Streak (winning, scoring etc.)
- Stripped of the captaincy
- (to) Stroke in (home)
- (to) Stroll past
- Studs
- Stun
- Stunner
- (to) Submit a transfer request
- Substitution
- (to be) Sucked in to
- Sucker punch
- (to) Suffer a defeat
- (el) Superclásico
- Super Cup
- Super-sub
- Surprise package
- Survival
- (to be) Suspended
- (to) Sweat on
- (to) Sweep home
- (to) Sweep past
- Sweeper
- Sweeper-keeper
- (a) Sweet strike