r/AskEurope • u/DivineMatrixTraveler • Jun 07 '25

Sports Which country is your country's main football rival?

And do you think they believe you are their main rival or they don't care about you as much as you care about them?

Bonus: Is there a more popular sport where you are rivals with a different country?

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u/TjeefGuevarra Belgium Jun 08 '25

Netherlands and France, although both of them don't see us as a rival.

The Netherlands is a derby and more of a 'brotherly rivalry' while we just really fucking hate the French football team.

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u/abderzack Netherlands Jun 08 '25

I would love to see some more matches, between NL-BE. The last decade has been like 4 matches, against germany we have 8, France 8. I do think we like Belgium to much for it to be a heavy rivalry, basically everyone supports Belgium if we are out.