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FOOTBALL RIVALS: THE CENSUS

The Football Fans Census has taken a look at rivalries in football - and after collecting the views of 2,800 football fans have provided a fascinating insight into who the clubs view as their biggest adversaries.

A survey conducted in December turned up some fascinating quirks - with Arsenal fans nominating Manchester United ahead of traditional rivals Tottenham and Burnley emerging as the second biggest rivals behind Manchester United!

Asked for their primary and secondary rivals, less than half of the 92 league clubs had a rivalry that was two-way - with both sides agreeing that the other was their biggest rivalry.

Manchester United have the most teams considering them primary or secondary rivals, with Burnley second.

The Clarets' obvious rivalry is with Blackburn, but Stockport and Halifax both nominated the East Lancashire club as their biggest rivals, with Preston, Rochdale and Blackpool all deciding that Burnley were second tier enemies.

22 percent of fans questioned confirmed that their main rival was now no longer their traditional rival - most notably Arsenal who did not plump for Tottenham.

Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal are the most popular second teams, but 40% of fans do not have a backup to their first team.

 TEAM RIVALS
 Arsenal Man Utd
 Aston Villa Birmingham
 Barnsley Sheff Wed
 Birmingham Aston Villa
 Blackburn Burnley
 Blackpool Preston
 Bolton Man Utd
 Bournemouth Reading
 Bradford Leeds
 Brentford QPR
 Brighton Crystal Palace
 Bristol City Bristol Rovers
 Bristol Rovers Bristol City
 Burnley Blackburn
 Bury Bolton
 Cambridge U Peterborough
 Cardiff Swansea
 Carlisle

 Chesterfield
 Middlesbrough
 Hartlepool

 Charlton Millwall
 Chelsea Arsenal
 Cheltenham Gloucester City
 Chesterfield Mansfield
 Colchester Wycombe
 Coventry AstonVilla
 Crewe Stoke City
 Crystal Palace Brighton
 Darlington Carlisle/Hartlepool
 Derby County Nottm Forest
 Doncaster Rotherham/Scunthorpe
 Everton Liverpool
 Fulham Chelsea
 Gillingham Millwall
 Grimsby Scunthorpe
 Hartlepool Darlington
 Huddersfield Bradford
 Hull Leeds
 Ipswich Norwich
 Kidderminster Cheltenham
 Leeds Man Utd
 Leicester Nottm Forest
 Leyton Orient Southend
 Lincoln City Scunthorpe
 Liverpool Man Utd
 Luton Town Watford
 Macclesfield Altrincham
 Man City Man Utd
 Man Utd Liverpool
 Mansfield Chesterfield
 Middlesbrough Newcastle
 Millwall West Ham
 Newcastle Sunderland
 Northampton Peterborough
 Norwich City Ipswich
 Nottm Forest Derby
 Notts County Nottm Forest
 Oldham Man City
 Oxford Swindon Town
 Peterborough Cambridge
 Plymouth Exeter
 Port Vale Stoke
 Portsmouth Southampton
 Preston Blackpool
 QPR Chelsea
 Reading Swindon Town
 Rochdale Bury
 Rotherham Sheff Wed
 Rushden & Diamonds Northampton
 Scunthorpe Hull City
 Sheff Utd Sheff Wed
 Sheff Wed Sheff Utd
 Shrewsbury Telford
 Southampton Portsmouth
 Southend Colchester
 Stockport Burnley
 Stoke City Port Vale
 Sunderland Newcastle
 Swansea Cardiff
 Swindon Oxford
 Torquay Exeter
 Tottenham Arsenal
 Tranmere Bolton
 Walsall Wolves
 Watford Luton
 WBA Wolves
 West Ham Millwall
 Wigan Bolton
 Wimbledon AFC Wimbledon
 Wolves WBA
 Wrexham Chester
 Wycombe Colchester
 Yeovil Weymouth
 York Hull City

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