From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Sport, Footballmidfieldmid‧field /ˈmɪdfiːld/ noun [uncountable]1DSthe middle part of the area where a game such as football is playedHe plays in midfield.an excellent midfield player2DSFthe members of a football team who play in the midfieldThe midfield did very well in the first half.Examples from the Corpusmidfield• Jackson carried the ball out of bounds at midfield.• The game also allowed the long-runningfeud between Limpar and DerbymidfieldplayerMark Pembridge to continue.• Graham relished the opportunity to upstage Chelsea and found in the talented Russell the width to dominate the game from midfield.• The Spurschief is determined to beef up his midfield following the departures of Stewart and Paul Gascoigne.• Then again I think to enableSpeed and Macca to get forward we need a holding midfield player.• But everything fell apart and Shields began to slice through a non-existent home midfield.• Sandison adopted the McPherson role of organising mattersbehind the Airdrie defensive line while the midfieldremained conservatively deep.• The midfield can not easily force the forward into space.