Eternal derby (Slovenia)

The Eternal derby of Slovenian football, simply known as the Eternal derby (Slovene: Večni derbi) or Slovenian derby (Slovene: Slovenski derbi), was a football rivalry between NK Maribor and NK Olimpija, which was dissolved in 2005.

This article is about the Slovenian football rivalry. For other uses, see Eternal derby.

On 2 March 2005 a new club was established,[1][2] under the name NK Bežigrad, retaining Olimpija's fans, colours and most of the youth team players. NK Bežigrad later changed its name twice, first to NK Olimpija Bežigrad and finally to NK Olimpija Ljubljana. Although the board of the newly established club and its fans see the team as the spiritual continuation of the old club, they are not regarded as the legal successors of the old NK Olimpija by the Football Association of Slovenia and are not entitled to claim the honours won by the defunct club.[3][4]

However, because the new Olimpija is supported by most of the fans of the previous Olimpija, including their ultras group the Green Dragons, who has a long-standing rivalry with Maribor's own ultras group Viole Maribor, many see the matches between Maribor and the new club as the continuation of the rivalry and refer to it by the same name.[5][6]

References
  1. "Zeleno-beli v štirih letih iz pete v prvo ligo" [Green-whites in four years from fifth to first league] (in Slovenian). RTV Slovenija. Archived from the original on 13 February 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  2. "NK Olimpija Ljubljana – Zgodovina" [NK Olimpija Ljubljana – History] (in Slovenian). NK Olimpija Ljubljana. Archived from the original on 13 February 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
  3. "Clubs" (in Slovenian). Football Association of Slovenia. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  4. "PrvaLiga: Olimpija Ljubljana" (in Slovenian). Slovenian PrvaLiga. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  5. A.L.; STA (11 May 2019). "Maribor poražen pred domačimi navijači, redarji v času tekme imeli polne roke dela". Večer (in Slovenian). Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  6. "Razbita Olimpija, razbite Stožice" [Broken Olimpija, broken Stozice] (in Slovenian). Nogomania. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
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