Football Rivalries

[Dirko]

After some discussion on the CCC thread thought I'd see if I could find a list of who "average" fans see as being the
biggest adversaries. These are from the following web site http://www.footballpools.com/football-fever/index.html

Enjoy & Comment.

1. West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers
2. Ipswich Town and Norwich City
3. Liverpool and Manchester United
4. Portsmouth and Southampton
5. Cardiff City and Swansea City
6. Aston Villa and Birmingham City
7. Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday
8. Bristol City and Bristol Rovers
9. Newcastle United and Sunderland
10. Brighton and Crystal Palace
11. Derby County and Nottingham Forest
12. Blackpool and Preston North End
13. Darlington and Hartlepool United
14. Luton Town and Watford
15. Blackburn Rovers and Burnley
16. Port Vale and Stoke City
17. Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur
18. Grimsby Town and S.cu.nthorpe United
19. Everton and Liverpool
20. Leeds United and Manchester United

And some other notable rivalries...

21. Chester City and Wrexham
22. Chesterfield and Mansfield Town
23. Northampton T and Peterborough United
24. Bury and Rochdale
25. Manchester City and Manchester United
26. Coventry City and Leicester City
27. Millwall and West Ham United
28. Accrington Stanley and Morecambe
29. Colchester United and Southend United
30. Macclesfield Town and Stockport County

[Sir Red of Norwood]

If you're looking at UK football, then you cant forget

Rangers v Celtic (must go close to being the most intense rivalry in the UK, surely)

And if you're looking for continental Football:

Ajax v Feyenoord
Barcelona v Real Madrid
AC Milan v Internationale
Torino v Juventus
Roma v Lazio


And thats just off the top of my head. I don't know much about Greek/Turkish/Russian football but I know Athens has a pretty big derby as does Istanbul and Moscow.

[devilsadvocate]

Good point Sir Red.

Gers and Hoops is massive.

I had a quick read of the link Jabber got those tables from and it's interesting the way they've done it. They have surveyed fans of each club and come up with a cross referenced %. So for example, the majority of Spurs fans HATE Arsenal and consider that our biggest rivalry, while some of the Scummers consider Chelsea and Man Utd bigger rivals than Spurs, so the NLD is well down the list.

But ask Gers and Hoops fans and the one thing they will agree on is that they hate each other more than anyone else.

In Turkey, there's Fenerbache and Galatasary.

[Dirko]

But ask Gers and Hoops fans and the one thing they will agree on is that they hate each other more than anyone else.

That's spot on. The research they did only involved clubs involved in the English system hence Cardiff/Swansea...

As for the Continent here's another list I found.

Europe (east)

1 Sk Tirana vs Partizani Tirana
2 Steaua Bucharest vs Dinamo Bucharest
3 Crvena Zvezda vs Partizan
4 Dinamo Zagreb vs Hajduk Split
5 Fenerbahçe vs Galatasaray
6 Levski Sofia vs CSKA Sofia
7 Olympiacos vs Panathinaikos
8 Sparta vs Slavia
9 Sarajevo vs Željezničar
10 Slovan vs Spartak
11 Dynamo Kyiv vs Spartak Moscow
12 Shakhtar Donetsk vs Dynamo Kyiv

Europe (west)

1 Ajax vs Feyenoord
2 FC Copenhagen vs Brøndby IF
3 FC Schalke 04 vs Borussia Dortmund
4 Real Mallorca vs Atlético Baleares
5 Barcelona vs Real Madrid
6 Benfica vs FC Porto
7 Paris-Saint-Germain vs Olympique de Marseille
8 Internazionale vs Juventus
9 Milan vs Internazionale
10 Lazio vs Roma
11 Djurgårdens IF vs AIK
12 FC Basel vs FC Zürich
13 Bohemians vs Shamrock Rovers

[Fritzy12]

Is it true that theres a chance that the reds will be playing Manchester United. I just heard it from a friend at school??

[Pidge]

Leeds vs Galatasaray

[Dirko]

Leeds vs Galatasaray

Harry v Harry...

Juve v Liverpool. Such a disaster which could have been avoided.

[devilsadvocate]

Leeds vs Galatasaray

That's more a one-off incident type rivalry where a couple of things got out of control. It's not a fully-fledged rivalry like an old firm derby.

Other similar rivalries would be:

Liverpool v Juventus - Heysal disaster
Liverpool v Roma - numerous stabbings, which are partly blamed as the cause of heysal.

These are the ugly incidents of football though and better left in the past.

Rivalry should be left on the pitch.

[MightyEagles]

Adelaide v Melbourne

[dinglinga]

millwall v leeds

or in fact millwall v anyone

[The Real Number 3]

Boca Juniors v River Plate

[johntheclaret]

Napoli v Burnley

don't know where the Accy v Morcambe comes from. Was always Accy v Southport when I used to go.

I think it depends on which set of fans you ask too. Ask any Claret who they hate and to a man it will be b4st4rd rovers. I'ts part of our club song and in most of our footy chants.

Ask any b4st4rd fan over say 35ish and they will tell you it's the Clarets. Ask b4st4rd under 35ish and they will say Man U. These people are obviously deluded to think that thier main rivals are Man U.

I think we have done this topic before: But Man U's biggest rivals would be Liverpool or Leeds (of old). Man U v Leeds, they bloody hated each other with a passion. Liverpool is a more recent thing, Liverpool never considered Man U one of thier rivals pre EPL. It was always Everton, the other half of town, as back in the 70's & 80's there wasn't anyone who could rival the Pool.

[leftlegger]

Arsenal v Tottenham

I was at the European Cup Winner's Cup Semi Final 2nd leg 1994 at Highbury
Arsenal v Paris Saint Germain

Arsenal were leading late in the game having wrapped up a spot in the final when the whole Arsenal crowd started taunting Tottenham.
" Tottenham, where are you now" or something to that effect.
Made me think, they must REALLY hate them.

[Sir Red of Norwood]

Is it true that theres a chance that the reds will be playing Manchester United. I just heard it from a friend at school??

Your friend is true, there is a chance the Mighty Reds could play the 'Other Reds' from Madchester

IIRC by making the ACL final (even if we don't win...looking pretty bad at HT), we qualified for the Club World Championships. If we win the ACL we go straight into the CWC, if we get humped by Gamba (again, not looking good at the mo) we will have to beat Waitakere FC (sp?) from NZ (OFC Champions) to qualify. If we make the CWC, I think we have to win a game to then qualify to play ManUre.