Meanings
nounfootball pitch (plural football pitches)
plural football pitches
- A playing field on which the game of football is played.
Synonyms: soccer field
- broadlyAn informal unit of measure of area, equal to the area of an Association football pitch (typically 76,900 square feet or 1.76 acres).
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,[…]
2022 November 26, Michiel Willems, “Hybrid jobs: 248 football pitches of office space has simply vanished”, in cityam.com
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nounA playing field on which the game of football is played.
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APA
football pitch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/football%20pitch
MLA
“football pitch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/football%20pitch. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “football pitch,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/football%20pitch.
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