substitutes' bench

English

Noun

substitutes' bench (plural substitutes' benches)

1. (soccer) The bench on which the players sit when they are not in action.
   • 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.

Synonyms

• subs' bench

Translations

the bench on which substitutes sit

• Danish: udskiftningsbænk c
• Finnish: vaihtopenkki
• French: banc des remplaçants m, banc de touche (fr) m
• German: Ersatzbank f
• Icelandic: varamannabekkur m
• Swedish: avbytarbänk c