A number of football rivalries, especially in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, are referred to as Eternal derbies, oftentimes rivalries between football clubs that have never been relegated from their current national top-level league in their nation for a long time, as well:
- Eternal derby (Albania), between KF Tirana and FK Partizani Tirana
- Eternal derby (Bosnia and Herzegovina), between FK Ã
½eljezniÃÂar Sarajevo and FK Sarajevo
- Eternal derby (Bulgaria), between PFC Levski Sofia and PFC CSKA Sofia
- Eternal derby (China), between Beijing Guoan F.C. and Shanghai Shenhua F.C.
- Eternal derby (Croatia), between GNK Dinamo Zagreb and HNK Hajduk Split
- Eternal derby (Cyprus), between APOEL FC and AC Omonia
- Eternal derby (Greece), between Olympiacos F.C. and Panathinaikos F.C.
- Eternal derby (Hungary), between Ferencvárosi TC and MTK Budapest FC
- Eternal derby (Montenegro), between FK Sutjeska NikÃ
¡iàand FK BuduÃÂnost Podgorica
- Eternal derby (North Macedonia), between FK Vardar and FK Pelister
- Eternal derby (Portugal), between SL Benfica and Sporting Lisbon
- Eternal derby (Romania), between FC Steaua BucureÃÂti and FC Dinamo BucureÃÂti
- Eternal derby (Serbia), between Red Star Belgrade and FK Partizan
- Eternal derby (Slovenia), between NK Maribor and NK Olimpija Ljubljana
- Eternal derby (Turkey), between Galatasaray S.K. and Fenerbahçe S.K.