If a football team is relegated, it is moved down to a lower division:
Relegate
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To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; totransfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.It [the Latin language] was relegated into the study of the scholar.Milman.
Relegate meaning & definition 1 of Relegate.
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To put out in the boondocks. To assign to a lower status.
Relegate meaning & definition 2 of Relegate.
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To reserect a fence.
Relegate meaning & definition 3 of Relegate.
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