Up-to-date match calendar of football derbies and rivalries,
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The football rivalry between Millwall and West Ham United is one of the longest-standing and most intense in English football. Originating in the late 19th century as a derby between rival shipbuilding and dockworking communities in East and South East London, the clubs were originally founded as Millwall Rovers (later Millwall Athletic) in 1885 on the Isle of Dogs, in the East End of London, and Thames Ironworks in 1895 in Canning Town in East London, then part of Essex. The match was historically known as the Dockers Derby, as both sets of supporters were predominantly dockworkers at shipyards on the River Thames. A central element of terrace tradition among West Ham supporters holds that Millwall dockers acted as strike-breakers during historic industrial disputes, a narrative that deeply intensified hostility between the two fanbases alongside competition for river trade. ℹ️
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A football derby is a highly charged match between longstanding rival teams, typically from the same city or region. Derbyist is a website that makes it easy to see which derbies are coming up in leagues around the world. The website also has historical results and links to video highlights of past derbies.
This site is a labor of love by Jerry Brito. It's a fun hobby project, but it does cost a couple hundred dollars a year to run. So, if you'd like to show your appreciation by contributing a few bucks, it would mean a lot.
Here is a list of all the derbies and rivalry matches that we track. We are working to expand the depth of historical results and to include links to video highlights if they're available.
We have aimed to include the most famous derbies and rivalries, but obviously we can't track every derby in the world. To help us fairly limit what we track, we only include in our database derbies or rivalries that have a page in English language Wikipedia. For example, here is the Wikipedia page for the Old Firm.
We very much welcome you letting us know if we've missed a derby. To get in touch, just reply to any issue of the Derbyist newsletter. Please include a link to the English language Wikipedia page for the derby in question. (See answer to previous question.) If there is no Wikipedia page, feel free to create one. If the new page successfully becomes part of Wikipedia we will happily add the matchup to Derbyist.
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