This is a list of the main sporting local derbies in Poland.
Many sports teams in Poland have organised supporter groups who are actively in involved in either the ultras scene or the hooligan scene. All these groups in Poland have 4 types of relationships between each other which are subject to change over time:[1]
- friendships (zgody) - alliances between two groups of supporters, whereby fans frequently visit each other's matches. During matches between two such sides, there usually are no divisions between away and home fans but both sets of fans are in the same stand.
- agreements (układy) - provisional agreements of co-operation between two groups of fans. If they last, they usually become friendships later on.
- enemies (kosy) - rival teams. A rival of a friend is also usually considered to be a rival.
- neutral - there's no specific antipathy or sympathy towards each other.
These relationships can be complicated. However, local derbies are usually pre-determined by historical and geographical factors and it is very rare for a local derby not to be considered a fierce rivalry. In some cases, the rivalries extend beyond sport and are general rivalries between cities or towns.[2]
- ^ Antoni Bohdanowicz dawno temu. "Świat "kiboli" od wewnątrz: zgody, kosy i układy chuligańskie". naTemat.pl. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ^ "Bydgoszcz i Toruń – wieczna rywalizacja | Jak Tyfus z Krzyżakiem". Polityka.pl. Retrieved 16 October 2015.