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<H1 class=firstHeading>Major football rivalries</H1><DIV id=bodyContent><H3 id=siteSub>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</H3><DIV id=contentSub></DIV><DIV id=jump-to-nav>Jump to: navigation, search</DIV>
This article deals with major football (soccer) rivalries around the world. This includes local derbies as well as matches between teams further apart.
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The most important rivalry in the Netherlands is that between Ajax Amsterdam and Feyenoord Rotterdam, known as De Klassieker. Both have won the Dutch national championship numerous times and have dominated the Dutch league since the beginning of professional football in Holland in the 1950s. Ajax has always been the bigger of the two, and are perceived arrogant, while Feyenoord is the club supported by dockworkers from the Rotterdam port. They always feel that the media is more supportive of Ajax. Whether this is true or not depends on whom you support. In recent years PSV Eindhoven has been more successful than Feyenoord, but still people in Holland feel that there is only one classic match in the Dutch league. As of 2005 154 official matches have been played since 1922, Ajax winning 63, Feyenoord winning 51 and 39 have ended in a draw. This excludes one edition which was cancelled due to fog.
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A long standing rivalry between the teams of two of the most important cities in México: Chivas of Guadalajara and Club América of Mexico City.
Chivas is known for a long-standing tradition of fielding only Mexican-born players, contrasting with América, who typically hires famous foreigners. América is owned by Televisa, the main communications company in México, and thus have a huge fan base in the whole country although Guadalajara also have a very large supporter base nationwide (and is owned by Jorge Vergara, through his company Omnilife). Both teams have been very successful, each having won 10 championships.
This match is sometimes seen as the match of the 'capitalinos', the inhabitants of Mexico City, versus the 'provinc
This article deals with major football (soccer) rivalries around the world. This includes local derbies as well as matches between teams further apart.
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>//<![CDATA[ if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } //]]></SCRIPT><A id=Ajax_vs_Feyenoord name=Ajax_vs_Feyenoord></A><H2><SPAN class=editsection>[edit]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Ajax vs Feyenoord</SPAN></H2>
The most important rivalry in the Netherlands is that between Ajax Amsterdam and Feyenoord Rotterdam, known as De Klassieker. Both have won the Dutch national championship numerous times and have dominated the Dutch league since the beginning of professional football in Holland in the 1950s. Ajax has always been the bigger of the two, and are perceived arrogant, while Feyenoord is the club supported by dockworkers from the Rotterdam port. They always feel that the media is more supportive of Ajax. Whether this is true or not depends on whom you support. In recent years PSV Eindhoven has been more successful than Feyenoord, but still people in Holland feel that there is only one classic match in the Dutch league. As of 2005 154 official matches have been played since 1922, Ajax winning 63, Feyenoord winning 51 and 39 have ended in a draw. This excludes one edition which was cancelled due to fog.
<A id=Guadalajara_vs_Am.C3.A9rica name=Guadalajara_vs_Am.C3.A9rica></A><H2><SPAN class=editsection>[edit]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Guadalajara vs América</SPAN></H2>
A long standing rivalry between the teams of two of the most important cities in México: Chivas of Guadalajara and Club América of Mexico City.
Chivas is known for a long-standing tradition of fielding only Mexican-born players, contrasting with América, who typically hires famous foreigners. América is owned by Televisa, the main communications company in México, and thus have a huge fan base in the whole country although Guadalajara also have a very large supporter base nationwide (and is owned by Jorge Vergara, through his company Omnilife). Both teams have been very successful, each having won 10 championships.
This match is sometimes seen as the match of the 'capitalinos', the inhabitants of Mexico City, versus the 'provinc
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