(esp of a sportsperson, team, etc) thought unlikely to win or succeed
Examples of 'unfancied' in a sentence
unfancied
Then his unfancied side roared into a 2-0 lead only to get squeezed out in extra-time.
The Sun (2016)
Changes of pace proved too subtle for unfancied opponents, whose target of 175 seemed a long way short.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
An unfancied, mid-table side with little ambition to rise any further should not be quite as easy as this to step over.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
GOALS, goals, goals between two largely unfancied sides.
The Sun (2014)
There have been many examples of unfancied teams playing with courage and harassing the favoured teams but, until last night, no examples of them actually winning.