Nil

What does the football term “nil” mean?

How to understand “nil” in football?

Use the word nil to mean “zero”, especially when you’re talking about scores in a sporting event: “the final score was twelve-nil”.

Saying nil instead of zero or nothing is much more common in Britain than in the United States. In the U.S. you might hear a tennis score include the word nil, while in the U.K. it’s a common term for cricket and football scores as well. Nil is a contraction of the Latin word for “nothing”, nihil.

  • Example: The World Cup final of 1994 between Brazil and Italy finished nil-nil (0-0).
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