This is a list of the main association football rivalries in Germany. Domestic club football Inter-regional Regional Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Former East Germany Hesse Schleswig-Holstein Lower Saxony / Bremen North Rhine-Westphalia Saarland Local Bavarian football derbies: Munich derby: Bayern Munich vs. 1860 Munich Unterhaching–Munich derby: SpVgg Unterhaching vs. Bayern Munich or 1860 Munich Augsburg derby: TV 1847 Augsburg vs. BC Augsburg Würzburg derby: Würzburger Kickers vs. Würzburger FV Berliner derbies: East–West Berlin derby: Union Berlin vs. Hertha BSC East Berlin derby: Union Berlin vs. BFC Dynamo Berliner political derby: Berliner AK 07 vs. BFC Dynamo Bochum derby: VfL Bochum vs. SG Wattenscheid Brandenburg derby: Brandenburger SC vs. Stahl Brandenburg Cologne derby: 1. FC Köln vs. Fortuna Köln vs. Viktoria Köln Essen derby: Rot-Weiss Essen vs. Schwarz-Weiß Essen Frankfurt derby: Eintracht Frankfurt vs. FSV Frankfurt Hamburg derby: Hamburger SV vs. FC St. Pauli Herzogenaurach (Adidas–Puma) derby: ASV Herzogenaurach vs. 1. FC Herzogenaurach Leipzig derby: Chemie Leipzig vs. Lokomotive Leipzig Oldenburg derby: VfB Oldenburg vs. VfL Oldenburg Stuttgart derby: VfB Stuttgart vs. Stuttgarter Kickers European club football Real Madrid versus Bayern Munich is the match that has historically been played most often in the Champions League/European Cup with 26 matches. Real's former biggest loss at home in the Champions League came at the hands of Bayern on 29 February 2000 (2–4). Due to Bayern being traditionally hard to beat for Madrid, Madrid supporters often refer to Bayern as the "Bestia negra" ("Black Beast"). Despite the number of duels, Bayern and Real have never met in the final of a Champions League or European Cup. National team The German national team also has many rivalries, including with England, Italy, the Netherlands, France, and Poland. When there were two German national teams, West and East Germany, they were also rivals. England The England–Germany football rivalry is considered to be mainly an English phenomenon—in the run-up to any competition match between the two teams, many UK newspapers will print articles detailing results of previous encounters, such as those in 1966, 1990 and 1996. Football fans in England often consider Germany to be their main sporting rivals and care more about this rivalry than those with other nations, such as Argentina or Scotland. Most German fans consider the Netherlands or Italy to be their traditional footballing rivals, and as such, usually the rivalry is not taken quite as seriously there as it is in England. The English