West Country derby

A West Country derby is a sporting fixture involving teams from the West Country, in England.

Football

The term is most commonly used to describe the fierce matches between Plymouth Argyle F.C. and Exeter City F.C..

West Country derby is also a phrase used in rugby, one of the fiercest rivalries is between Bath Rugby and Bristol Rugby.^[1]

Games between Somerset and Gloucestershire can be referred to as a West Country derby.^[2]

Local derbies in the United Kingdom

England	A49 A62 Aston Villa–West Bromwich Black Country Bolton–Wigan Bristol Bristol Rovers–Swindon Chester–Wrexham East Anglia East Lancashire East Midlands Derby–Leicester Derby-Forest Leicester–Forest Essex Humber Lincolnshire Liverpool–Manchester United London Arsenal–Chelsea Chelsea–Tottenham Millwall–West Ham North South East West M1 M23 M69 Manchester Merseyside Nene Nottingham Potteries Roses Rules Second City Severnside South Coast Steel City Tees–Wear Tyne–Tees Tyne–Wear West Country West Lancashire West Yorkshire Wool City

Scotland	Ayrshire Dundee Edinburgh Falkirk Fife Highland Lanarkshire New Firm North Old Firm Renfrewshire Tayside

Wales	Chester–Wrexham Severnside South Wales

Northern Ireland	Belfast Big Two North Belfast

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