yo-yo club

English

Etymology

From the image of the club moving and down between leagues like a yo-yo.

Noun

yo-yo club (plural yo-yo clubs)

  1. (soccer) A club that experiences a run of alternating promotions and relegations in quick succession.
    • 2018 December 12, Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      A yo-yo club usually found bouncing between the top flight and the second tier, Leicester had spent the majority of the Premier League era outside of the Premier League.
    • 2020 July 24, Richard Cox, Dave Russell, Wray Vamplew, Encyclopedia of British Football, Routledge, →ISBN:
      The late 1970s and early '80s were notable for three clubs that had a particular notoriety as 'yo-yo clubs': they were Leicester City, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham City
    • 2023 January 24, Stephen Morrow, The People's Game?: Football, Finance and Society, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 25:
      It would do nothing, however, to increase those clubs' chances of surviving in that top division as their financial resources would be diminished compared to the existing yo-yo clubs and would be likely to result in more 'one-season wonder' clubs.

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