The most notorious in Egyptian football is the Cairo derby, between Al-Ahly and Zamalek.
That match is so volatile and led to so many incidents of violence that is now always held at a neutral venue, and usually officiated over by a foreign referee.
Cairo's Al-Ahly are the biggest club in Egypt and ranked as Africa's best ever club side.
The other club involved in Wednesday's disaster, Al-Masry, are based in the north-eastern city of Port Said.
They are one of Egypt's bigger clubs, and have played in the Egyptian Premier League since its innauguration in 1948.
The pair's rivalry is less intenss than the one between Al-Ahly and Zamalek, but tensions have grown in recent seasons.
Crowd trouble marred the same fixture in Port Said last season, and tensions were further exacerbated by Al-Masry's appointment of Hossam Hassan as their coach.
Hassan was involved in a touchline argument with Al-Ahly coach Manuel Jose last season when he was in charge of Zamalek, but both Hassan and Al-Ahly director Sayed Abdel-Hafiz made public appeals for calm before the game.
Al-Ahly have a relatively new Ultras fan group, similar to the fanatical groups of supporters that fervently follow their clubs in Italy and South America.
Al-Ahly's has sprung up in the past five years to resist heavy-handed treatment from the ruling regime.
"The whole concept of any independent organization didn't exist, not unions, not political parties," said the leader of the Al-Ahly ultras last April.
"Then we started to organize football ultras ... to them it was the youth, in big numbers -- very smart people -- who could mobilize themselves quickly. They feared us."
This group have been cited in numerous dissections of the tragedy, with some implying a political angle which goes well beyond football.
There is a suggestion that some of the Al-Masry fans involved were supporters of the deposed Mubarak regime and were exacting revenge on Al-Ahly ultras that were involved in the Tahir Square protests which led to Mubarak's toppling.
Perhaps more concerning is the implications from some in the Muslim Brotherhood group that holds the most seats in the newly-elected Egyptian palirament that the violence had been planned.
Al-Ahly fan Ahmed Ghaffar appeared to echo these claims: "The people attacking us were armed with batons, knives, rocks, glass, firworks and all kinds of weapons that would be used in more than football trouble."
Such claims are disputed by others that say that any talk of conspiracy is a smokescreen for the chaotic state of the nation.
Middle East analyst Mark Lynch said: "Wild theories of SCAF-led massacre or foreign conspiracy in Egypt tragedy distract from real problem of shoddy policing, political vaccuum."
In my oppinion, that incident should not occur. Because that riot, a lot of people dead and made other effect like damage to that stadium. This is detrimental to their own. They as a Supporters or Hooligans, should accept their team's won or defeat. They as a Supporters or Hooligans, should supportive.We must remember Football only entertaining. Don't make football as religion or politics. Admire or support the club with "normaly".
A lot of sympathy "flow". For example from Van Persie's and Rooney Facebook status. In my country, this week football match, all players and referee use black ribbon in their left arm.I hope this incident does not happen again for a "peace football and world".
Crowd trouble marred the same fixture in Port Said last season, and tensions were further exacerbated by Al-Masry's appointment of Hossam Hassan as their coach.
Hassan was involved in a touchline argument with Al-Ahly coach Manuel Jose last season when he was in charge of Zamalek, but both Hassan and Al-Ahly director Sayed Abdel-Hafiz made public appeals for calm before the game.
Al-Ahly have a relatively new Ultras fan group, similar to the fanatical groups of supporters that fervently follow their clubs in Italy and South America.
Al-Ahly's has sprung up in the past five years to resist heavy-handed treatment from the ruling regime.
"The whole concept of any independent organization didn't exist, not unions, not political parties," said the leader of the Al-Ahly ultras last April.
"Then we started to organize football ultras ... to them it was the youth, in big numbers -- very smart people -- who could mobilize themselves quickly. They feared us."
This group have been cited in numerous dissections of the tragedy, with some implying a political angle which goes well beyond football.
There is a suggestion that some of the Al-Masry fans involved were supporters of the deposed Mubarak regime and were exacting revenge on Al-Ahly ultras that were involved in the Tahir Square protests which led to Mubarak's toppling.
Perhaps more concerning is the implications from some in the Muslim Brotherhood group that holds the most seats in the newly-elected Egyptian palirament that the violence had been planned.
Al-Ahly fan Ahmed Ghaffar appeared to echo these claims: "The people attacking us were armed with batons, knives, rocks, glass, firworks and all kinds of weapons that would be used in more than football trouble."
Such claims are disputed by others that say that any talk of conspiracy is a smokescreen for the chaotic state of the nation.
Middle East analyst Mark Lynch said: "Wild theories of SCAF-led massacre or foreign conspiracy in Egypt tragedy distract from real problem of shoddy policing, political vaccuum."
In my oppinion, that incident should not occur. Because that riot, a lot of people dead and made other effect like damage to that stadium. This is detrimental to their own. They as a Supporters or Hooligans, should accept their team's won or defeat. They as a Supporters or Hooligans, should supportive.We must remember Football only entertaining. Don't make football as religion or politics. Admire or support the club with "normaly".
A lot of sympathy "flow". For example from Van Persie's and Rooney Facebook status. In my country, this week football match, all players and referee use black ribbon in their left arm.I hope this incident does not happen again for a "peace football and world".
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