Getting One Over - Football's Local Rivalries 6 Quiz

Answer: Native tribal chief

Colo-Colo is Chile's most popular and successful club, having won more league titles than any other. The club was founded in 1925 by a group of players who had left Deportes Magallanes following a dispute. Upon its foundation, the club was named for Colocolo, a Mapuche warrior and tribal leader during the period of the Arauco War in the late 16th century, who is regarded as a symbol of heroism, bravery, and wisdom in Chile. Colo-Colo shares its fiercest rivalry with another of the "Big Three" in Santiago, Universidad de Chile, with the fixture between the two being referred to as "El clásico del fútbol chileno", or the "Chilean Superclasico".

The club also has a significant rivalry with the third major club in the city, Universidad Catolica.

In both of these, Colo-Colo has the advantage in terms of wins over the other two. Colo-Colo was also the first club from Chile to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores, losing in 1973 to Argentine side Independiente, before becoming the first Chilean side to win the competition, when they beat Olimpia of Paraguay in 1991.

Answer: VfB Stuttgart

Following a number of years of low achievement, in 1996 Chelsea appointed Ruud Gullit as their manager. This led to an upswing in the club's fortunes as, the following season, the club won the FA Cup, its first major trophy since 1971. This qualified the club for the following season's European Cup Winners Cup, only the club's second season in European football since 1971. Having beaten clubs from Slovakia, Norway, Spain and Italy en route to the final, the club faced the holders of the DFB-Pokal, VfB Stuttgart, in the final, held in Stockholm, winning 1-0 thanks to a goal from Gianfranco Zola.

This was the club's second trophy of the season, having already won the League Cup, and became a catalyst for a subsequent period of sustained success for the club over the following decades. During this period, the club won multiple league titles, further FA and League Cups and, in 2013, became the first London club to achieve the UEFA treble of winning the Champions League (2012), Cup Winners Cup and UEFA Europa League (2013).

Answer: False

Although Turkey's national football championship officially dates from 1959 and the advent of the Super Lig, the first national championship took place in 1924. This was a knock-out competition for clubs that had won the various regional leagues taking place around the country, and ran for a week in September of that year in Ankara. Representing the Istanbul Football League was Besiktas, who had won the title for the first time that season.

However, the club was eliminated in the quarter-final of the National Championship by the eventual winners, Harbiye. Besiktas eventually won the club's first national title in 1934.

However, although this and subsequent titles won by the club up to 1957 are claimed by the club, they are not officially recognised by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF).

The first competition officially recognised by the TFF as a national championship is the Federation Cup, a competition organised to select Turkey's entrant to the European Cup in 1957 and 1958. In both of these seasons, the competition was won by Besiktas.

The club then won its first Super Lig title in 1960 in the competition's second season.

Answer: Cement

Cruz Azul was originally formed as the works team of Cemento Cruz Azul, a major cement producer based in Jasso, a town in Hidalgo. The team started out as, and remained for many years, an amateur one. However, it achieved such success on the pitch that Cemento Cruz Azul decided to turn the team professional, entering it in Mexico's second tier in 1960, and building the Estadio 10 de Diciembre for the team in 1963. Such was the team's success during the 1960s that the company decided to move the team to Mexico City in 1971, with the club sharing the Estadio Azteca with America, Mexico's most successful club side.

Although the two had played each other before, Cruz Azul's move to the capital led to the establishment of a major rivalry with America, that came to be called the "Clásico Joven" ("Juvenile Derby"), which began in 1972, when Cruz Azul beat America 4-1 in the final of the Primera Division playoffs to win the National Championship.

The cement company remained the owner and sole sponsor of the team until 1997; although the football club has had additional sponsors since then, the cement company remains its owner and principal sponsor.

Answer: Manchester United

The original New York Cosmos was one of the founding members of the North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1970, an effort to bring top level football to the United States. With its presence in the country's largest metropolis, the Cosmos quickly gained a reputation as the league's glamour side, particularly when, in 1975, they signed the Brazilian superstar Pele.

However, although the team retained a significant fanbase, both it and the NASL suffered significant financial problems in the early 1980s, which saw the organisations fold in 1985.

The rights to the Cosmos name were retained by the club's former General Manager, Peppe Pinton, who used it to run youth football camps for the next two decades. During this time, Major League Soccer (MLS) was founded as the new top division in the US, which led to various efforts to revive New York Cosmos by persuading Pinton to sell his rights to the name.

In 2009, he eventually did, selling to Englishman Paul Kemsley, whose ownership group announced the revival of the team in 2010, with a view to it gaining a place in MLS.

As part of this effort, a special invitational team played as New York Cosmos against Manchester United in August 2011 in a testimonial game for the English side's long-serving player, Paul Scholes. Although the Cosmos did not gain a place in MLS, it did begin competitive play in 2013 as part of a new North American Soccer League, set up as a new second tier of US football. During its time in the new NASL, New York Cosmos played in successive seasons in the US Open Cup against its crosstown MLS rivals, New York Red Bulls and New York City FC, winning on both occasions.

Answer: Pyramids FC

In 2008, the Al Assiouty Sport club was founded in the city of Assiut. Although it achieved promotion to the Egyptian Premier League in 2014, the club was not one of the country's powerhouses. However, in 2018, it was purchased by the billionaire head of Saudi Arabia's General Sports Authority, with the club going through major changes.

Not only was it moved from Assiut to take residence in the 30 June Stadium in Cairo, but its name was changed to Pyramids FC, in an effort to give it a more global presence that would match Egypt's two major club sides, Al-Ahly and Zamalek.

The new owner also invested a significant amount in the recruitment of almost two dozen new players, with most coming from Brazil. These efforts led to immediate success, with the rebranded club reaching the final of the Egypt Cup in its first season, where it finished as runner-up to Zamalek, while in 2020 the club came third in the Premier League, and reached its first international final, when it was runner-up in the CAF Confederation Cup.

Answer: Istanbul

Up to 1922, many cities in Turkey had substantial Greek populations, one of which was Constantinople (since renamed Istanbul). These Greek communities maintained a tradition of running athletic clubs, with football as a major sport played between them. One of the most successful of these clubs was Ermis, based in the community of Pera in the city. Following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-22, many Greek inhabitants of Constantinople and other Turkish cities left and settled in Greece itself, primarily in Athens and Thessaloniki.

In 1924, a group of these former inhabitants of Constantinople, including players from the Ermis club, met and decided to form a new club aimed at the thousands of people who had settled in Athens following the war. In recognition of its origins, the new club was named "Athlitikí Énosis Konstadinoupόleos", meaning "Athletic Union of Constantinople". Since its establishment, AEK Athens has become one of the dominant clubs in Greek football, becoming the first club to win all of the country's domestic competitions.

The club shares fierce rivalries with its neighbours, Panathinaikos and Olympiakos, as well as a significant one with PAOK Salonika, one of the major teams from Thessaloniki, which shares AEK's origins as a club for refugees from Constantinople.

Answer: False

Lokomotiv Tashkent was formed in 2002 as a new club owned by Uzbek State Railways. In its second season, it gained promotion from the Uzbek First League to the Super League, the top division in Uzbekistan. The club remained as in the division until 2010, never finishing higher than sixth, before suffering relegation.

It gained an immediate return the following season, after which it began to began to compete at the top of Uzbek football - in its first season, the club came third in the league, which led to it qualifying for the AFC Champions League for the first time.

In 2016, the club, having not gotten past the Group Stage during its history in the competition, qualified for the knockout stages for the first time, eventually reaching the quarter-finals.

However, it was not the first Uzbek club to reach that stage of the competition in the AFC Champions League era - in the first Champions League in 2002, their local rivals Pakhtakor reached the semi-final, as did Bunyodkor in 2008.

Answer: Maryhill

Partick Thistle was originally founded in 1876 in Partick, then a burgh separate from the City of Glasgow. The club's first recorded match took place in February 1876 against a local team called Valencia, at Overnewton Park, located near to Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow.

In 1891, the club joined the Scottish Football Alliance, a league organisation set up in response to the Scottish Football League, in which it remained for two seasons before transferring to the SFL. Following its move, the club became something of a "yo-yo" side, spending four years in the First Division and five in the Second, winning promotion three times. Over the course of its first thirty years, the club also moved several times.

In 1897, it eventually settled at Meadowside, a ground in Partick close to the River Clyde, where it remained until 1908, when the club was forced to move again, as the owners of the stadium, the Clyde Navigation Trust elected to demolish it to expand a neighbouring shipyard onto the site.

The club was able to purchase a parcel of land in the Maryhill area, in the north of Glasgow, upon which they built a new stadium, which they named Firhill. In 1909, after having had no home ground of their own for a season, the club moved into their new home.

Answer: Oklahoma City

In 2015, a new club was formed to enter the North American Soccer League (NASL), then one of the second tier competitions in the United States below Major League Soccer. Originally planned as Oklahoma City FC, in August 2015 it was announced that the Spanish league authorities had given permission for Rayo Vallecano and its owner, Raúl Martín Presa, to purchase a controlling interest in Oklahoma City.

This deal was completed in November 2015, with the club renamed as Rayo OKC. The club began play during the Spring half of the 2016 season, and eventually finished fourth in the overall NASL table, which qualified them for the post-season play-off tournament, when they were eventually beaten in the semi-final by New York Cosmos.

However, despite the club's on-field success, it suffered significant financial difficulties, in part as a result of Rayo Vallecano's relegation from La Liga, as well as competition from the more established Oklahoma City Energy FC of the rival United Soccer League.

After only one season of play, Rayo OKC folded in January 2017.

Answer: True

Montevideo Wanderers (generally known simply as Wanderers), was founded in 1902, and joined Uruguay's Primera División the following year. The league itself had been founded in 1900, with the champions in the first two seasons being Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club (CURCC), the forerunners of Penarol, and the following two seasons seeing CURCC's great rivals, Nacional, winning successive titles. With no season held in 1904, the next season was in 1905, and saw Wanderers, in its second season in the league, finish third behind CURCC and Nacional respectively, before, in 1906, the club won its first league title by five points, becoming the third club to win the competition.

The club won its second title in 1909, having finished second for the previous two seasons, but then had to wait until 1931 to win the league for a third time. Subsequent to Wanderers' victory in 1931, Penarol and Nacional were the only clubs to win the league until Defensor won the title in 1976.

Answer: AC Milan

Sao Paulo is one of the major clubs in the city that it shares a name with, as well as being one of Brazil's foremost. As with its rivals across the country, it has had ups and downs in terms of its performance, with the period of the 1980s and early 1990s being one of success for the club. During the 1980s, the club won the Paulista state championship five times, as well as winning the Brazilian national title in 1986, the second in the club's history, as well as finishing as runners-up in 1989.

However, following a poor start to the 1990 Paulista, Telê Santana was hired as the team's head coach. In his first season, the club again finished second in the Brazilian championship, before winning the title in 1991. This led to a period of sustained success for the club, beating Argentine club Newell's Old Boys in the final of the 1992 Copa Libertadores, and Barcelona in the Intercontinental Cup the same year to become de facto world champions. Having returned home to win the 1993 Paulista, they returned to the Copa Libertadores as holders, retaining the trophy against Universidad Catolica of Chile, before also retaining the Intercontinental Cup, this time against Italian side AC Milan, emulating their great rivals, Santos, who also won successive Libertadores and Intercontinetal Cups in 1962 and 1963.

In 1994, Sao Paulo got to the final of the Libertadores for a third successive year, losing to Velez Sarsfield of Argentina. However, the club did win the 1994 Copa CONEMBOL, its eleventh trophy since 1990.

Answer: Aga Khan

Mohammedan SC is one of India's oldest football clubs, having been founded in 1891 in Calcutta (now Kolkata). It enjoyed considerable domestic success, and in 1934 became the first native club to win the Calcutta Football League. In 1960, the club was invited to participate in the Aga Khan Gold Cup.

This was a tournament established in 1958 by the Aga Khan, who sought to raise the profile of football in south Asia. Held in Dhaka, the tournament featured clubs and invitational teams from across the subcontinent and South-East Asia.

In the 1960 competition, Mohammedan reached the final against Indonesian side PSM Makassar, winning the game 4-1 to become the first Indian side to win a trophy overseas. However, in spite of its victory in the Aga Khan Gold Cup, the club has not been able to emulate its local rivals East Bengal and Mohan Begun in winning domestic trophies, having regularly moved between the top two divisions of India's I-League in its history.

Answer: Costa Rica

Following the club's victory in the 1993 Torneo Clausura, the second half of the 1992-93 Argentine Primera División, which was their first league title since 1968, Velez Sarsfield qualified for the 1994 Copa Libertadores. Reaching the final, they played Brazilian club Sao Paulo, who had won the two previous competitions. Velez Sarsfield eventually won the competition following a penalty shoot-out, which qualified them for two further competitions against their equivalents from Europe and North America - the Intercontinental Cup, a single match play-off against the winners of the European Champions League, and the Copa Interamericana, a two-legged fixture against the winners of the CONCACAF Champions Cup.

In December 1994, Velez travelled to Tokyo, where they beat Italian club AC Milan to win the Intercontinental Cup.

However, the Copa Interamericana for that season was not played until February 1996, when Velez played Costa Rican side Cartaginés over two legs, eventually winning 2-0 on aggregate.

This made them the second side from the Argentine capital to win the three trophies in a single season, following River Plate's success in 1986.

Answer: False

Deportivo Municipal was founded in 1935 by three of Lima's municipal leaders, who sought to have a football club to represent the city's public workers. Upon its foundation, the club was entered in the league's second tier, winning promotion at the end of its first season to the Primera División.

The club's first season at the top level came in 1937 (there being no competition in 1936), when they finished fifth. The following season, 1938, the club won its first league title by five points. During the era when Peru's football league was an amateur competition, which ended in 1950, Deportivo Municipal won three further league titles, and were runners-up six more times, as well as coming second in the first season of professional football. Since then however, the club has enjoyed only limited success, finishing as runners-up in the league in 1981, and being relegated a number of times to the Segunda División.