Definition of groundshare in English:
groundshare
verbˈɡraʊndʃɛːˈɡroundˌSHer
[no object]British (of a sports team) share a home ground with at least one other team.
Plymouth Argyle rejected approaches by the Tigers to groundshare at Home Park
there are commercial advantages to groundsharing
Example sentencesExamples
- Many fans have expressed anger across internet and social media over the plans to groundshare at Northampton Town.
- Mr Fisher will outline plans to return to the Coventry area after possibly three years of groundsharing outside the city.
- The Conference would not allow the club to groundshare for longer than five seasons without having some definitive end in sight to their nomadic life.
- The Walsall boss has poured cold water on heavy speculation that Coventry could groundshare at the Banks's Stadium next season.
- The move towards groundsharing follows the collapse in talks between the club, the council, and the stadium owners.
- The Leyton Orient chairman has announced the club will stay at their current ground should they be unsuccessful in their bid to groundshare at the Olympic Stadium.
- It's getting that bad I can see us groundsharing in the future!
- Rumours are doing the rounds about the ground either being sold or that we are going to groundshare with Brentford or Fulham.
- Coventry City's plan to groundshare with Northampton for three years has been approved by the Football League.
- He said keeping Coventry City afloat while groundsharing 35 miles away was the "lesser of two evils" than potentially forcing its extinction.
nounˈɡraʊndʃɛːˈɡroundˌSHer
British An arrangement whereby two or more sports teams share a home ground.
a possible groundshare between York City FC and York City Knights RLFC has not been ruled out by either club
Example sentencesExamples
- A poll of Inverness supporters is being conducted to determine whether they would favour a groundshare with Aberdeen next season.
- Survival hopes were revived after a deal was struck by chairman Nigel Hughes to continue the groundshare next season with Cheltenham Town.
- Leyton Orient's chairman has admitted a groundshare would be an ideal solution for the Olympic stadium.
- The feud resulted in the club agreeing a three-year groundshare with Northampton.
- A groundshare, then, could be a threat to the economic viability of the club.
- It means Coventry City FC Limited faces liquidation and a planned groundshare with Northampton Town will go ahead this season.
- The MP has previously tabled several Early Daily Motions in the House of Commons questioning Coventry's groundshare with Northampton Town.