(soccer) A football (soccer)team of eleven players.
2013 August 20, Louise Taylor, “English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing”, inThe Guardian[1]:
Rewind to the first day of the inaugural Premier League season in August 1992 and 177 players – or 73.1% – featuring in firstXIs held English nationality.[…] Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-EnglishXI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.