youth team
Developing player group
A youth team is a sports team composed of young players, typically children or teenagers, often affiliated with a professional club or organized league.
Professional soccer clubs maintain youth teams as development pipelines for future talent: He came up through the youth team before joining the senior squad.
Youth teams compete in age-restricted divisions.
- juniorLower in standing
- academyInstitution of learning
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- reserveSupply kept back
- developmentProgress toward maturity
grassroots · schoolboy · age group · rookie · farm · minor · cadet · colt · feeder · trainee · nursery · apprentice · trial period · draft · scouting · tryout · training ground · talent
- teamssquad, varsity, ensembles, crews, squads
- cycling groupspeloton, cycling club, group ride, pace group, paceline
- Backup Teamsbackups, substitutes, subs, second string, reserve unit
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