In this short football-language post we explain the expression ‘feeder club‘ and how it is used in football. You can also read the transcript for this post below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.   Hello DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners and teachers of English. I’m Damian and I’m based in London and I am one half of the Languagecaster team – the other member is of course Damon who is in Tokyo, Japan. I hope you are all well and enjoying the football. Now, in this short football-language podcast we are going to look at the phrase ‘feeder club‘ which is used in football to describe a team that supplies players to another team – mainly, though not always, through transfers. Now, don’t forget that you can access all of our other football-language podcasts – we have hundreds of them stretching back to October 2006 – by coming along to our site here at Languagecaster.com. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in French). Feeder Club OK, the football phrase that we are looking at today is ‘feeder club‘ and this is used to mainly describe one club that helps another more powerful club either by providing players for that bigger club or by allowing the bigger club to send young players to gain experience. So, a feeder club will ‘feed’ or supply players to another more powerful club by selling on some of their more talented players which can then earn the smaller club some money and sometimes this can work almost like an exclusive agreement between them. Now, the bigger club can also send the feeder club some of their younger players and this allows these players to gain experience from playing senior football which they may not be able to do at their parent club. Now, parent club is another way of describing the club that owns the registration of the player although usually the phrase is used more frequently when teams loan a player to another club. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'wzIEImu3SP9D3_4IunEVsA',sig:'0ppaN2xv-AyyPHeGfpfO6Ee3BOWWhsHOUgmOTzhxddA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'959069150',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); A well-known example of a feeder club to a Premier League side was Dutch team Vitesse Arnhem who worked very closely with Chelsea since 2010 with 29 players moving from the London side to Vitesse. Current England (and) Chelsea attacking midfielder Mason Mount was one of these although not all of the players came back into the Chelsea first-team squad; either being sold or moving down to a lower -eague side. Some fans didn’t like this arrangement between the two clubs and called the Dutch side ‘Chelsea B’ – a B team of course ...