Noun
football match (countable and uncountable, plural football matches)
(sports) A single game of football between two teams.
I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say. Andy Partridge
The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important. Bobby Robson
Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose? Lesley Garrett
I will do whatever it takes to win a football match. Stuart Pearce
If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that. Rio Ferdinand
He is interested in the feelings of the squash ball, and of the champagne bottle that launches the ship. In a football match his sympathy is not with either of the teams but with the ball, or, in a match ending nil-nil, with the hunger of the goalmouth. Alan Bennett