substitutes' bench
noun1
Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Soccer, Sports The bench on which the players sit when they are not in action.
- 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.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
- Synonyms
- subs' bench