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List of association football rivalries

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This list of association football rivalries catalogues football rivalries around the world. This includes rivalries at the club and international level, including local derby and intercontinental competitions. It also lists rivalries between individual players, managers, and one another.

International

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This list uses the geographic confederation classifications issues by International Association Football Federation (FIFA): CAF (Africa), AFC (Asia and Australia), UEFA (Europe), CONCACAF (North & Central America and the Caribbean), OFC (Oceania) and CONMEBOL (South America).

Intercontinental

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Country 1 Country 2 Article World Cup games
(as of 2022)
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 Argentina  England Argentina–England 5 (2002) [1]
 Netherlands Argentina–Netherlands 6 (2022) [2]
 Australia  New Zealand Australia–New Zealand [3]
 Uruguay Australia–Uruguay
 Brazil  Italy Brazil–Italy 5 (1994) [1]
 Japan (women)  United States (women) Japan–United States 4 (2015)
 Morocco  Spain Morocco–Spain 2 (2022) [4]

Asia and Australia (AFC)

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Country 1 Country 2 Article World Cup games
(as of 2022)
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 Afghanistan  Pakistan Afghanistan–Pakistan [5][6]
 Australia  Japan Australia–Japan 1 [1]
 South Korea Australia–South Korea [1]
 Macau  Hong Kong Hong Kong–Macau
 China China–Hong Kong [7]
 Japan China–Japan
 South Korea China–South Korea
 India  Pakistan India–Pakistan [8][9][10]
 Indonesia  Malaysia Indonesia–Malaysia [7][11]
 Vietnam Indonesia–Vietnam
 Iran  Iraq Iran–Iraq [12][13]
 Saudi Arabia Iran–Saudi Arabia [14]
 Iraq  Kuwait Iraq–Kuwait [15]
 Saudi Arabia Iraq–Saudi Arabia
 Japan  South Korea Japan–South Korea [16]
 North Korea  South Korea North Korea–South Korea
 Qatar  United Arab Emirates Qatar–UAE [17][18][19]
 Thailand  Vietnam Thailand–Vietnam [7][20]
 Vietnam  Thailand Vietnam–Thailand [7][20]
 Indonesia Vietnam–Indonesia

Africa (CAF)

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Country 1 Country 2 Article World Cup games
(as of 2022)
Source
 Algeria  Egypt Algeria–Egypt [16][21][22]
 Tunisia Algeria–Tunisia
 Egypt  Tunisia Egypt–Tunisia
 Ghana  Nigeria Ghana–Nigeria [22][23][24][25][26]
 Libya  Tunisia Libya–Tunisia

Europe (UEFA)

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Country 1 Country 2 Article World Cup games
(as of 2022)
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 Albania  Kosovo Albania–Kosovo [27][28]
 Serbia Albania–Serbia [16]
 Austria  Hungary Austria–Hungary 1
 Belgium  Netherlands Belgium–Netherlands 2
 Croatia  Serbia Croatia–Serbia 2 [29][30][31]
 Czech Republic  Slovakia Czech Republic–Slovakia
 Denmark  Sweden Denmark–Sweden [32]
 England  Germany England–Germany 5 [32]
 Republic of Ireland England–Republic of Ireland 1 [33]
 Scotland England–Scotland [32]
 France  Germany France–Germany 4
 Italy France–Italy 5 [34]
 Spain France–Spain 1
 Germany  Netherlands Germany–Netherlands 4
 Italy Germany–Italy 5
 Hungary  Romania Hungary–Romania [35][36]
 Italy  Spain Italy–Spain 3
 Northern Ireland  Republic of Ireland Irish derby
 Portugal  Spain Portugal–Spain 2

North & Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)

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Country 1 Country 2 Article World Cup games
(as of 2022)
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 Costa Rica  Honduras Clásico centroamericano [37]
 El Salvador  Honduras El Salvador–Honduras [38][39]
 Mexico  United States Mexico–United States 1 [16]

South America (CONMEBOL)

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Country 1 Country 2 Article World Cup games
(as of 2022)
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 Argentina  Brazil Argentina–Brazil 4 [40]
 Uruguay Argentina–Uruguay 2 [41]
 Brazil  Uruguay Brazil–Uruguay 2 [42][43][44][45][46]
 Chile  Peru Chile–Peru [47][48]

Club

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Africa (CAF)

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Asia and Oceania (AFC) and (OFC)

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Europe (UEFA)

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North, Central America and the Caribbean and South America (CONCACAF) and (CONMEBOL)

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See also

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References

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