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===United Kingdom===
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===Israel===
Most famous in football and basketball is the Great Tel-Aviv Derby between Hapoel Tel-Aviv and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.

Also the Haifa Derby between Hapoel Haifa and Maccabi Haifa.


===South Africa===
===South Africa===

Revision as of 21:22, 11 November 2014

In many countries the term local derby, or simply just derby (UK: /ˈdɑːrbi/; DAR-bee or AUS/US: /ˈdɜːrbi/; DER-bee) means a sporting fixture between two teams from the same town, city or region, particularly in association football.

Origin

The phrase most likely originated from The Derby, a horse race in England, founded by the 12th Earl of Derby in 1780, since at least as early as 1840 'derby' has been used as a noun in English to denote any kind of sporting contest.

Another widely reported theory, though not accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary, is that the phrase came about from the city of Derby itself.[citation needed] It was renowned as the site of a chaotic and exuberant game that involved the whole town and often resulted in fatalities. The goals were at Nuns Mill in the north and the Gallows Balk in the south of the town, and much of the action took place in the Derwent river or Markeaton brook. Nominally the players came from All Saints' and St Peter's parishes, but in practice the game was a free-for-all with as many as 1,000 players. A Frenchman who observed the match in 1829 wrote in horror, 'if Englishmen call this play, it would be impossible to say what they call fighting'. The traditional Shrovetide football match is commonplace in the town of Ashbourne, Derbyshire."[1]

American football

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Baseball

Dominican Republic

United States

Venezuela

Basketball

NBA

Lithuania

Canadian football

Ice hockey

Germany

National Hockey League (Canada and USA)

Russia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Rugby League

United Kingdom

Australia

Rugby union

France

Ireland

United Kingdom

South Africa

Speedway

Poland

University

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "A brief Yotube history of Zalgiris Kaunas Vs. Lietuvos Rytas". BallinEurope.com. 22 April 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Biarritz v Bayonne the weekend Top 14 highlight". Rugby Week. 28 February 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  4. ^ "The crimson meets the blue: 5 moments from the Munster-Leinster rivalry". TheJournal.ie. 31 March 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012.