Top Twenty Football Derbies (Part 3)
Flamengo Vs Fluminese
Next is the Brazilian derby between Flamengo and Fluminese. The Flamengos have won six league titles and Fluminese have won only one.
The Fla-Flu football rivalry is there because of the two clubs from being from across town. The world record attendance in a football match is held by a Fla-Flu match in 1963 where there were 194,603 spectators and the match ended with neither team scoring
a goal.
The two clubs have played three hundred and seventy-three matches against each other with having a hundred and twenty-one draws.
Flamengo have won a hundred and thirty-five matches and Fluminese have won a hundred and nineteen matches.
Roma Vs Lazio
This is another Italian derby between Roma and Lazio, Roma is in the lead with three League titles where as Lazio only have two.
Della Capitale is the local derby which runs between Roma and Lazio, it is a derby that is well thought of to be the fiercest derby in Italy and is a lot ahead of other local derbies.
This is a derby that has been marked to be a derby with violence, excitement, massive crowds and recently has adopted a habit of exhibiting racism.
The two teams have gone head to head against each other a hundred and sixty-one times and have had fifty-nine draws. Roma has fifty-eight wins under its wing and Lazio has forty-four.
Arsenal Vs Tottenham
An English derby is the one between ‘The Gunners’ and Tottenham Hotspurs, Arsenal has won thirteen league titles while Tottenham Hotspurs has only two.
This is locally known as the ‘North London derby’ and has been a long time running between White Hart Lane and the Emirates.
When Sol Campbell moved to ‘The Spurs’, from ‘The Gunners’, in 2001, the derby further intensified.
The two clubs have gone against each other a hundred and sixty-six times, with the total count coming out to forty-six draws, sixty-nine wins for Arsenal and fifty-one wins for Tottenham Hotspurs.
Benfica Vs Sporting Lisbon
This is a Portuguese rivalry between sporting and Benfica with Benfica in the lead with thirty- two league titles and Sporting Lisbon having only eighteen.
The Derby is known as de Lisboa and is a derby that seems to be running between two different classes in society. With the Benfica having fans from the less favourable society where as Sporting Lisbon fans are fans from a more lucrative back ground.
The two clubs have battled it out two hundred and eighty-two times, with a hundred and four outcomes that were draws. Benfica is in the lead with a hundred and twenty wins and Sporting Lisbon only has half as much wins and the total number coming up to a
measly fifty-eight wins.
Dinamo Bucharest Vs Steaua Buchurest
This is a Romanian derby between Steaua Buchurest and Dinamo Buchuarest, with Steaua in the lead with twenty-three league wins and Dinamo only having eighteen.
The Romanian eternal derby is from the Romanian capital and these clubs are the most popular clubs in Romania.
The two clubs have played a hundred and forty-five matches with each other and have had forty five equalizing outcomes.
Dinamo are in the lead with fifty-two wins over their competitors and with Steaua having only forty-eight.
Liverpool Vs Manchester United
Next in the list comes one of the most well known English derbies out there, the one between Manchester United and Liverpool.
Both the clubs have eighteen league titles right now. They are one of the most crowd attracting derbies out there and are sometimes known as the North West derby.
The two teams have played a hundred and seventy-nine matches against each other, the ‘Red Devils’ have had sixty-nine wins where as ‘The Reds’ have had sixty wins and there have been around fifty draws between the two mavericks.
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