Wiktionary
friendly match
n. (context football English) A game that has no competitive value; an exhibition match
Usage examples of "friendly match".
Out of them all, shed challenged Gunnery Sergeant Morton Jaskowicz, a big, mean mountain of a man from the Pennsylvania coal country whose last duty had been as an unarmed combat instructor at Pendleton, to a friendly match.
This wasn't going to be a friendly match like the ones Alvin had in town, where the game was just to throw the other man, or if they was fighting on grass, to pin him down.