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In association football, a substitute is a player who is brought on to the pitch during a match in exchange for an existing player. Substitutions are generally made to replace a player who has become tired or injured, or who is performing poorly, or for tactical reasons (such as bringing a striker on in place of a defender ).
In team sports, substitution (or interchange) is replacing one player with another during a match.Substitute players that are not in the starting lineup (also known as bench players, backups, interchange, or reserves) reside on the bench and are available to substitute for a starter.
In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players under contract to a club but who do not normally play in matches for the primary team. Reserve teams often include back-up players from the first team, young players who need playing time to improve their skills, as well as members of the first team recovering from injury.
At different times during the history of the sport, there have been substitute players (also known as reserves) serving a function distinct from interchange players.A player who begins the game as a substitute may take no part in the game until he is substituted for another player, and the player substituted out permanently leaves the field.
He was a substitute player when Zhejiang Greentown played in the Chinese Super League and was released in January 2012 after Takeshi Okada became the head coach of the club. [1] Wu joined Guizhou Renhe in February 2012. [2] He made 6 appearances for Guizhou in the 2012 league season, all coming on as substitute.
Like most American sports, the clock would count down to 00:00 rather than up to "full time" as was done in association football. As before, (like ice hockey) there would be free substitutions, but players now had to touch the wall by their bench before a substitute player could come onto the playing floor.
The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is a 32-team tournament featuring top professional clubs from around the world, set to begin June 15, 2025, in the U.S. (Photo courtesy of FIFA)
This is a list of Major League Baseball replacement players. The Major League Baseball , an American and Canadian baseball league, has used replacement players during two strikes: the 1912 Detroit Tigers strike , and the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike .