football pitch

football pitch

English

Etymology

Compound of football +‎ pitch.

Noun

football pitch (plural football pitches)

1. A playing field on which the game of football is played.

   Synonym: soccer field

2. (by extension) An informal unit of measure of area, equal to the area of an Association football pitch (typically 76,900 square feet or 1.76 acres).

   • 2022 November 26, Michiel Willems, “Hybrid jobs: 248 football pitches of office space has simply vanished”, in cityam.com‎:

     New research out this morning shows that roughly 1.8m square metres of office floor space was taken out of use in the UK in the past year. The move, equivalent to 248 football pitches, […]

Translations

playing field on which the game of football is played — see soccer field