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.
T
- Table
- (to) Table a bid
- (the) Table does not lie
- (a/to) Tackle
- Tactics
- (to) Take a knock
- (to) Take a point
- (to) Take apart
- (to) Take each game as it comes
- Take the ball to the corner flag
- (to) Take the game to
- Take the game by the scruff of the neck
- (to) Take the lead
- (to) Take on
- (to) Take one for the team
- (to) Take out
- (a) Takeover
- Talisman
- Tally
- (a) Tap in
- (to) Tap up
- Target man
- Team
- Team to Beat
- (to) Tee up
- Telegraph a pass
- Terrace
- Textbook
- There for the taking
- There or thereabouts
- Thick and fast
- Third-place play-off
- (to) Thrash
- (to) Thread a pass
- Three Lions
- Three-peat
- Thrills and spills
- (a) Throw-in
- (to) Throw the kitchen sink at
- (to) Thump (a team)
- Thunderbolt
- Tide turns
- (a) Tidy player/Performance
- (a) Tie
- (to) Tie
- Tier
- Title contenders
- Title decider
- (to) Toe poke
- (to go) Toe to toe with
- Toffees
- Too good to go down
- Toothless
- Top bin
- Top drawer
- (to) Top it all (off)
- Top flight
- Top of the table clash
- (to) Top the group
- (to) Top the table
- Total football
- Touchline ban
- Towering header
- (to) Toy with an opponent
- (to) Track back
- Trail
- Trailing leg
- Transfer window
- Treble
- Trophy
- (To) Tuck away
- (to) Turn around
- (to) Turn in
- (to) Turn on a sixpence
- (to) Turn on the style
- Turn the tables
- (a) Turn up (for the books)
- Twelfth Man
- Two-footed tackle
- Two-horse race
U
- UEFA
- UEFA Cup
- UEFA Nations League
- Unbeaten record
- Unbeaten run
- Unchanged
- Undefeated
- Under-21
- Underachievers
- Underdog
- Underestimate a team
- (to be) Under fire
- Under par
- Under the cosh
- (to be) Under the microscope
- (to be) Unmarked
- Unplayable
- (to be) Unsettled
- (to) Unveil a new manager
- Up and running
- (to be) Up for grabs
- (to be) Up for it
- Upright
- Upset