26. Raja vs Wydad
Casablanca (Marocco)
Raja, formed in 1949, have their roots in the struggle against colonial power France. Last year a derby was played behind closed doors following crowd problems.Raja Casablanca or Rajah (transliterated: ar-Raja' al-Baydawy ar-Riyady) (Raja meaning hope in Arabic) is a sports club with sections in many
different disciplines in Casablanca, Morocco. Raja was founded in 1949 as part of the political struggle against French rule by nationalists who aimed to create a focus for working-class young Moroccans. The club is most well-known outside Morocco for its football team.
In Morocco, Raja Casablanca is still regarded as the club of the working-classes. For many years it had a reputation for playing entertaining football without winning many trophies. However Raja has evolved recently into a more professional outfit capable of winning trophies at home and abroad. It has become the most powerful club in Morocco alongside city rivals Wydad Casablanca.
Several versions circulate according to the origin of the naming of the club Wydad. In Arabic, Wydad means Love. Each historian brings his explanation. But that brought back by Ahmed Lahrizi in his book on Wydad volume 1, is the most widespread and the most plausible. According to the book, during the frequent meetings which intervened before the creation of the club, one of the founder members arrived late, the reason was that he watched the latest film of the actress and Egyptian singer legend Oum Kaltoum, whose title is "Wydad". Thus came the idea to the founders to give the name to the club.
Violence - on and off the field - is a frequent occurrence at Morocco's big derby.
27.Botafogo vs Fluminense
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Clássico Vovô
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas is a Brazilian multi-sport club from Rio de Janeiro. Its football team, placed 12th in FIFA Clubs of the 20th Century. The club symbol is the lone star, represented on its badge. Botafogo means (he who) sets fire and is also the name of the neighbourhood where the club has its origins (Botafogo Beach). It is nicknamed "Fogo", "Bota" (breakdowns of the club's name), "Fogão" (augmentative of "Fogo", largely used), "Alvinegro" (White-black), "O clube da Estrela Solitária" (The Lone Star club, reference to the club's major symbol), and "O Glorioso" (The Glorious, nickname given after 1910's campaign).
Botafogo FR is one of the biggest clubs in Brazil and one of the four major football clubs in Rio de Janeiro along with Flamengo, Fluminense (most ancient rivalry in Brazil: October 22, 1905), and Vasco.
The first mascot was Donald Duck, abandoned due to royalties issues. Nowadays, the club's mascot is the Manequinho a replica of the Manneken-Pis situated in front of the club. However, Botafogo's fans have largely adopted the dog Biriba as a mascot. The idea of officializing it is being studied by the club's owner. Biriba was Botafogo's talisman in the late 1940s, considered lucky by the fans.
Botafogo has near 4,5 million supporters in Brazil, today 9th biggest in Brazil. In the 1960s, Botafogo was number two of the
preference of Brazilian football fans. This fact explains why Botafogo has a large amount of supporters over 60 years old.
Fluminense Football Club is a sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was founded on July 21, 1902. The word Fluminense derives from Latin flumen, "river", rio in Portuguese. It is also the name for a native of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Football is the most heralded sport among fans and management. Fluminense has won the Copa Rio International in 1952, national championship, in 1970 and 1984. The club also won the Brazil Cup in 2007, and won two Rio-São Paulo Tournaments, the major football competition in Brazil before a national league was formed.
Nicknamed "Clássico Vovô" (Grandpa Derby), the derby between Fluminense and Botafogo is the oldest in Brazil and the fourth in the entire continent (behind Peñarol vs Nacional, Racing vs River Plate and Newell's Old Boys vs Rosário Central). The rivalry began in 11/22/1905, with the "tricolor" victory of 6-0.
The rivalry between the fans of these two clubs is one of the most "rancorous" in Brazil, since they share a long history of polemical decisions in finals and juridical fights outside the fields between the clubs. One of the most famous disputes surround the Campeonato Carioca decision of 1907, only solved after 89 years, when the court decided to share the title.
Traditionally, despite all the resent between fans, the "Clássico Vovô" was always known as a very peaceful derby, with no violence situations between fans. However, reports of fights between "Torcidas" are increasing during the first decade of the XXI century.
28.CSKA Moscow vs Spartak Moscow
Moscow (Russia)
The Moscow Derby
The Moscow derby is fierce, but the rivalry is strange in that it denies even notional logic. CSKA were the army team, Spartak were financed by a catering firm and, to romanticised modern theory, were supported by those looking for an independent alternative to the monolithic state institutions.
The oft-repeated claim that Spartak were systematically persecuted as a result, though, is nonsensical (it is a curious persecution that permits a side 11 league titles). CSKA and Spartak are the two most successful football teams in the country in history. With 31 titles won altogether(Spartak–21; CSKA–10).
These days what divides fans is far from obvious. The issue is not geographical, nor to do with class or religion; it is simply that some people are Spartak and some are CSKA.
The supporters of both teams wait the whole year for this particular match. Both clubs are based in the Luzhniki stadium (sector D belongs to CSKA fans and B to Spartak) , but both teams are building their own stadiums. This game attracts crowds of people(about 60 thousands every game). If the team had a bad season but they won this game fans of the winning team will forgive their team everything . The rivalry doesn't just occur when the teams are playing each other, with both teams having terrace chants which they sing at each game insulting each other.
Officially PFC CSKA Moskva is not a section of the military CSKA sports club, but the Russian Ministry of Defence is one of shareholders of PFC CSKA. CSKA Moscow won the 2005 UEFA Cup by beating Sporting CP 3–1 in the Final on Sporting's home field in Lisbon. It became the first Russian club to win a major European title, as well as the first one to complete a treble.
FC Spartak Moscow are nicknamed "Meat" because in Soviet era the club was owned by the Collective Production Farms.
On 14 October 1995 on Old Arbate street in Moscow about 200 fans of CSKA and Spartak started a fight . This slaughter became a symbol of the beginning of an epoch of severe opposition among football fans of Russia.
Nowadays about 5000 policemen are on duty when these Moscow teams play against each other. Statistics: All games - 123 matches; 51 wins for Spartak, 29 draws, 43 wins for CSKA.
29. Barcelona vs Emelec
Guayaquil (Ecuador)
Clásico del Astillero
The biggest rivalry in Ecuador is between the clubs Emelec and Barcelona, both from the city of Guayaquil.
It is known as "El Clásico del Astillero", which translates to "The Shipyard Classic", reflecting the status of Guayaquil as the country's main port.
Club Sport Emelec is a sports club is best known for their football team. If taken all sports the club
participates in into account, the club has won more national championships than any other club in Ecuador. In football, they have ten national titles, which is third overall.
The fan group known as "Boca del Pozo" (mouth of the well) was founded July 25, 1980 by Giussepe Cavanna Chavez (today part of the club's staff). The group adopted that name because their clubhouse, known as Cavanna's Place, was located in a neighborhood with the same name. The fan base gained recognition and grew in number. Today, Boca Del Pozo is known to usually gather behind the goals, and chant for Emelec from beginning to end, regardless of the score. The group has also created several factions in several different cities in Ecuador.
The group know as Legión Azul was founded in 2001 before Emelec won that year's championship. It started with 10 to 15
Today, however, there are more or less 250 members of this group now. They are located right in front of "La Boca del Pozo" behind the other goal.
Barcelona Sporting Club is currently tied with Club Deportivo El Nacional as the most successful team in the country in terms of national championships, currently at 13 titles. They were the first Ecuadorian team to make it to the Copa Libertadores finals, having done so twice in 1990 & 1998.
Barcelona's ultras are known as La Sur Oscura (English: The Dark South). They are known to be one of the Biggest fan-bases in the country. During home matches, they are located in the southern end of the Estadio Monumental. Another big one is known as Zona Norte and many more from different parts of the country, as the capital city's Sierra Oscura (English: Dark Highland).
30 Al Ahly vs Zamalek
Cairo (Egypt)
Al-Ahly is an Egyptian football club based in Cairo. Founded in April 1907. Al-Ahly, which means "national" in Arabic, is the most crowned club in Egypt, having won the Egyptian League thirty-three times and the Egyptian Cup thirty-five times. Al-Ahly was named in 2000 by the Confederation of African Football as the African Club of the Century.
Zamalek Sporting Club is one of Egypt's and Africa's preeminent sports clubs. The club was established in 1911
under the name of "Kasr El-Nil" and is currently based in Giza (a suburb of Cairo), Egypt.
The most famous part of Zamalek Sporting Club is the football team known as just El Zamalek. It is one of the leading club sides in Egyptian, Arabian and African football. Zamalek is crowned African club with 5 Champions Leagues, 1 Cup-Winners Cup, 3 African Super Cups, 2 Afro-Asian Super cups and 1 Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup. Zamalek is the 1st African-Asian club to top the FIFA World Club Monthly Ranking (Feb, 2003).
The biggest rivalry in Egypt and the Arab world is the rivalry between Egyptian giants Al-Ahly & Zamalek.
Al-Ahly & Zamalek were named by the Confederation of African Football "CAF" as the top two African clubs of the 20th century.
Both teams are located in Greater Cairo and their match is considered the highlight of the football season with live television broadcast to most of the Arab countries since the seventies. The rivalry is closely fought, but Al-Ahly has the biggest win between the two teams since the league commenced in 1948, winning 6-1 at their home stadium in 2002. However, the largest result between the two sides was Zamalek's 6-0 win over Al-Ahly in the 1944 Egyptian Cup final. The derby matches are so intense as to require foreign referees to officiate them. Back then in 1966 a penalty against Al Ahly drove Shly fans crazy and drive the to riot causing damages to Zamalek's main stadium and burning a factory near the club. Recently, the intensity of rivalry caused the authorities to redirect traffic in Cairo during the mach day, so that supporters of the two teams will not face each other in their way to and from Cairo stadium.