Jumat, 10 Januari 2014

Derby of Northern Greece

The Derby of Northern Greece, is a football and basketball rivalry played between Aris and P.A.O.K., clubs which are both located in Thessaloniki. Both teams claim the title of the city's most successful team, and the rivalry between them is extremely intense, characterizing their long history.
Aris and PAOK are traditional rivals in other sports as well, specially in basketball, where in the 1980s they were bashing for the Championship. As it concerns football, the minute after PAOK was formed, he constantly contested Aris primacy in the local championship, since up to 1959, when the Greek national championship was established in its current form, it was conducted in a way where the champions of the three major local championships in Thessaloniki, Athens and Piraeus were playing each other for the title. Their conflict continued in the following years up to modern times with both clubs contend for the title of the greatest and most successful football club in Northern Greece, leading many times in serious incidents between their supporters.


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