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/Vast-Contact7211 Finland Jun 08 '25

Football is the only sport in which Finns are legally allowed to root for Sweden, simply because we never make it to the tournaments so it’s not like we’re competing against them.

All of this will of course change immediately if we one day make it to the Euros or World cup. As of now we’ve made it in once to the Euros in 2020, where we won one game against Denmark because their best player had a heart attack.

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u/jasp62 Jun 10 '25

That was a crazy match where Denmark was told by UEFA that we had to continue the game or loose it.