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Ashdod derby

football match

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ25489959 ↗
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The Ashdod derby (Hebrew: הדרבי של אשדוד) is the football match between Hapoel Ashdod and Maccabi Ironi Ashdod both from Ashdod, Israel. The first derby was played on 13 January 1962.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ashdod derby” as football match. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ashdod, derby and football can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football match. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25489959. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ashdod derby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.