31. Juventus vs Torino
Turin (Italy)
Derby della Mole
Derby della Mole, known in English as the Turin Derby is the local derby, played out between the city's two most successful teams, Juventus FC and Torino F.C.. The first being in 1906, there have been many since, mostly through Serie A fixtures but also the Coppa Italia and friendly matches.
Juventus is the most well supported football club in Italy with over 12 million fans (32.5% of Italian football fans), according to an August 2008 research by Italian newspaper La Repubblica, as well as one of the most supported football clubs in the world, with approximately 170 million supporters (43 million of them in Europe alone), particularly in the Mediterranean countries, to which a large among of Italian diaspora have emigrated. The Old Lady has fan clubs all over the world outside the country, from places as far apart as Canada, United States, Malta, San Marino, England,Iran, Greece, Israel, Vietnam, Malaysia,India, Australia,Albania,Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Macedonia, Uruguay and many more.
Despite this strong support, attendances at Juventus home matches average about 22,000, much less than many other highly renowned European teams. Contrastingly, demand for Juventus tickets in occasional home games held away from Turin is high; suggesting that Juventus have stronger support in other parts of the country. Juve is widely and especially popular throughout mainland Southern Italy and Sicily, leading the team to have one of the largest followings in its away matches,more than in Turin itself.
Juventus ultras have good relationships with Piacenza, Den Haag and Legia Warsaw fans and have several rivalries, three of which are highly significant.
Grande Torino ("The Great Torino") is the name by which the Torino F.C. team of the 1940s is popularly known in Italy. Grande Torino set many important records of Italian football, all of which still stand today.
On May 4, 1949, after having secured their record fifth back-to-back Serie A title, and on their way home after a friendly match with Benfica in Lisbon,
Portugal, the airplane carrying Grande Torino crashed against the Basilica of Superga, on a hill near Turin, killing nearly all the players and managers.
Grande Torino is still much loved by Italian football fans as a symbol of national pride that helped Italian people get through the hardships of post World War II.
The Turin Derby has been compared to the Manchester derby in England. While Manchester United have large support support from all over the world, but especially England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, Manchester City's support is almost entirly restricted to Manchester and its surrounding area. In Turin, Torino has the biggest local following, but Juventus draw support from all over Italy, and all over Southern and Eastern Europe.
In the stadium Juventus fans usually shout out "Inferior!" and "Minors!", however Torino fans have been known to shout "Cheats!" and "Scum!" due to Juventus's match fixing allegations. Violence often breaks out on and of the pitch. In 2007/2008 there have been riots before the match between hooligans and police, 40 arrests, 2 injured policemans,trash cans set on fire and many vandalized cars and shops are the result.
32. Sevilla vs Betis
Sevilla (Spain)
Sevilla Fútbol Club is a Spanish professional football club that plays in the top-flight Spanish La Liga championship. The club was established on October 14, 1905, making it the oldest football club from Seville, and the second oldest from Andalusia. Sevilla is owned by its fans, with the stocks distributed across a few major holders and a large base of fans. The club supports one of the most renowned training academies in the country, which has produced many famous players.
Real Betis Balompié, F.C. is a Spanish football club in Seville founded in 1907. The team currently plays in La Liga. Its home stadium is the 52,700-seat Manuel Ruiz de Lopera and its home colours are green and white.
In 1909, disagreement among some majority of the board of directors led to a split from which the Betis team was born; later in 1914 Real Betis was founded from the union of Betis FC and Sevilla Balompié. The Betis was born from Sevilla Balompié.
On 8 October 1915, the first Sevilla-Betis derby took place, ending with a 4-3 Sevilla victory. The cross-town rivalry is considered one of the most violent and the most important derbies in Spain. As of the 2006/2007 season, 77 Sevilla derbies have been played in La Liga, of which Sevilla won 35, Real Betis won 26, and 16 ended in a draw.
During a quarterfinal match of the Copa del Rey on 28 February 2007, at Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera, the game had to be suspended in the 60th minute due to a Real Betis aficionado throwing an object at former Sevilla manager Juande Ramos' head, subsequently knocking him out. Ramos had to be removed from the pitch on a stretcher and the Sevilla footballers abandoned the pitch in protest. Real Betis were condemned to their next 3 home matches being played in another venue by the Spanish Football Federation. Sevilla win the elminatory and later won the Copa del Rey in Madrid. (Sevilla 1-0 Getafe)
On 7 February, Real Betis beat Sevilla 2-1 in their home stadium. This is the first time that Real Betis have beaten Sevilla in 13 years at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán.
33. Coritiba vs Atlético Paranaense
Curitiba (Brazil)
Coritiba Football Club, commonly known as Coritiba, is a Brazilian football team from Curitiba, Paraná.
Coritiba's greatest rivals are Atlético Paranaense and Paraná.
Clube Atlético Paranaense is a Brazilian football team from Curitiba in Paraná, founded on March 26, 1924. The club won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 2001.
Atlético Paranaense was born as the result of a merge between the two Curitiba traditional teams, Internacional-PR and América-PR. The merge was announced on March 21, 1924 and formalized five days later, on March 26, when the club changed its name and its colors, and also the new board of directors assumed the administration of the club. The chosen club's field was Internacional old field, called Água Verde.
34. West Ham vs Milwall
London (England)
Millwall Football Club is an English football team based at The Den, in Bermondsey, South East London. They currently play in Football League One. Despite their best efforts of recent years, the club has an enduring reputation for having some of the most violent supporters in English football.
The team nickname is The Lions, previously, The Dockers. They changed the nickname after being referred to as "Lions" for their acts of giant killing in their FA Cup run of 1900, when they reached the semi final. They adopted a lion emblem, and the motto:
We Fear No Foe Where E'er We Go. The emblem, however, was not added to their shirts until 1936. They also reached the semi final in 1903, and 1937, while they went one better and reached the final in 2004, losing to Manchester United. Their 1937 appearance was notable as they became the first team in the old third division to reach the last four, knocking out three First Division sides on the way, including Derby County who were defeated in front of Millwall's official record crowd of 48,762, with hundreds more locked out.
Millwall are indeed a well supported club for their size and status. They have, however, had a long and notorious history of football hooliganism. Their Firm, known as the Bushwackers [sic] were one of the most notorious of all hooligan gangs. However, the police, especially in the local Lewisham borough, are supportive of the club and recognise that any problems now emanate from a very small minority. Chief Superintendent Archie Torrance of Lewisham Police has stated, "Millwall have our full support." He continues to work hard with the club to keep the ground the safe place that it now is.
The club was originally founded as Thames Ironworks F.C. in 1895 and was later reformed, in 1900 as West Ham United. West Ham United Football Club is an English football club based in Upton Park, London Borough of Newham, East London. They have played their home matches at the Boleyn Ground stadium since 1904.The fans and club alike are known as "The Hammers" by the media, partly because of the club's origins as Thames Ironworks company football team (see club crest) and also (incorrectly) due to the club's name.
The team's supporters are famous for their rendition of the chorus of their team's anthem, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" introduced to the club by former manager Charlie Paynter in the late 1920s. At the time, a Pears soap commercial featuring the curly haired child in the Millais "Bubbles" painting who resembled a player Billy J. "Bubbles" Murray in a local schoolboy team of Park School for whom the headmaster Cornelius Beal coined singing the tune "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" with amended lyrics.
The origins of West Ham's links with organised football-related violence starts in the 1960s with the establishment of The Mile End Mob (named after a particularly tough area of the East End of London).
During the 1970s and 1980s (the main era for organised football-related violence) West Ham gained further notoriety for the levels of hooliganism in their fan base and antagonistic behaviour towards both their own and rival fans, and the police.
The Inter City Firm were one of the first "casuals", so called because they avoided police supervision by not wearing football-related clothing and travelled to away matches on regular "Inter City" trains, rather than on the cheap and more tightly-policed "football special" charter trains. The group were an infamous West Ham-aligned gang. As the firm's moniker "inter city" suggests violent activities were not confined to local derbies - the hooligans were content to cause trouble at any game, though nearby teams often bore the brunt.
During the 1990s, and to the present day, sophisticated surveillance and policing coupled with club supported promotions and community action has reduced the level of violence, though the intense rivalry and association with Millwall, Chelsea and other major players in the 'firm' scheme remains.
The 2005 film "Green Street" (an allusion to the road on which the Boleyn Ground stands) depicted an American student played by Elijah Wood becoming involved with a fictional firm associated with West Ham, with an emphasis on the rivalry with Millwall. The two teams and their Chairmen moved to distance the clubs from the movie at the time. West Ham hooliganism was again highlighted in film in 2008, with the film based on the life of well known former hooligan Cass Pennant, Cass.
West Ham have strong rivalries with several other clubs. Most of these are with other London clubs, especially with their neighbours Tottenham Hotspur and also with Chelsea, which sublimates the age-old East versus West London rivalry.
The strongest and oldest rivalry is with Millwall. The two sides are local rivals, having both formed originally around the works sides Thames Ironworks and Millwall Ironworks shipbuilding companies. They were rivals for the same contracts and the players lived in the same locality. The early history of both clubs are intertwined, with West Ham proving to be the more successful in a number of meetings between the two teams, resulting in West Ham being promoted at the expense of Millwall. Millwall later declined to join the fledgling Football League while West Ham went on to the top division and an FA Cup final. Later in the 1920s the rivalry was intensified during strike action started by the East End (perceived to be West Ham fans) which Isle Of Dogs-based companies (i.e. Millwall fans) refused to support, breeding illwill between the two camps.
The rivalry between West Ham and Millwall has involved considerable violence and is one of the most notorious within the world of football hooliganism. However, the two clubs have not played each other in 4 years.
35. Santa Fe vs Millonarios
Bogota (Colombia)
El Clásico Capitalino
Santa Fe has forged many rivalries with several teams from the Mustang Cup, most notably with local rivals Millonarios, in fact, the match between both teams is called El Clásico Capitalino; there are also strong rivalries with other teams like América de Cali, El Clásico de los rojos.
"Being santafereño it's a lifestyle. It is not fashion, it's passion, santafereño is to give everything without asking anything in return, is the most beautiful and precious thing that runs through your veins, knowing that we are "The Soul of Bogota," is to feel the beat in your heart and those goosebumps in your skin when you're about to see Santa Fe jump into the field, the unforgettable "ta-ta-ta" from the horn of the Barra 25, the unforgettable 7-3 with millonarios, the Conmebol, the "Linen of faith" and "The Power of a People," the pride of always being the first, doesn't matter what others say, one thing for sure..I dont want to be from the rest, I want to be from the best..SANTA FE"
La Guardia Albiroja Sur It has been 11 years since the founding of the most significant supporter in the history of Independiente Santa Fe "La Guardia Albi-Roja Sur". It seems that it was just yesterday that a group of young people gave life to this project of love and commitment to Santa Fe. Since their beginning the have always filled up their section bringing a supporting atmosphere for Santa Fe over 6000 members are currently part of this group. famous for their spectacular displays when the team goes into the field and yet it is not compared by others. In 2005, La Guardia Albirroja Sur (South White-Red Guard), with the help of Samsung, Independiente's main sponsor at the time and the club's administration, put together the largest soccer team's flag in the world. The flag, named the 'Lienzo de Fe' (Linen cloth of faith), was 350 meters long and 38 high, covering the southern end of 'El Campín', half the venue, where the team's fans locate in home games. It would be subsequently displayed on every home game.
Club Deportivo Los Millonarios is a Colombian football club based in Bogotá. As of 2009, Millonarios shares with rival América de Cali being the team with the most Fútbol Profesional Colombiano championships, 13 in total, although they haven't won this tournament since 1988. They are also the third Colombian team to achieve a major international title, the Copa Merconorte in 2001. The team was initially created in 1937 by students from two schools in the city of Bogotá: "Colegio San Bartolomé" and "Instituto La Salle".