The Cambridgeshire derby is a sobriquet used to describe

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matches held between

Cambridge United Cambridge United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Cambridge, England. They compete in EFL League one , the 3rd tier of the English football league system. The club is based at the Abbey Stadium on N ...

and

Peterborough United Peterborough United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. Peterborough have a long-standing ...

, the only fully professional football clubs in

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...

. The first derby took place on 22 March 1956 and has since been played 48 times with Peterborough winning 20 to Cambridge United's 15. The most recent derby took place in the EFL League One On The 29th Of October 2022, a match which Peterborough won 1-0 at their home ground, London Road. It has been 2 years since the last time Cambridge United won the derby on 10th November 2020 with One match having been played over the period. The Cambridgeshire derby is one of 23 requited rivalries in English football.

History

The first league meeting between Peterborough United and Cambridge United took place in Division Four in October 1970 at Abbey Stadium. The match ended in a 1–1 draw, however Cambridge United won the first league derby with a 3–2 away win at London Road later the same season. Following Cambridge's relegation after the 2001-02 Second Division, the sides would not face each other in a competitive fixture for nearly 16 years. In August 2015, a memorial match was played between the two teams in honour of Chris Turner who had died four months earlier. Turner, who was born in Cambridgeshire, made 314 league appearances for Peterborough and 90 for Cambridge United before going on to manage both clubs. In September 2017, a statue of Turner was unveiled outside London Road. The drought of competitive derbies ended with an EFL Trophy match played in Cambridge on 7 November 2017. Before the game, a

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was set off in a pub near Abbey Stadium. The pub was evacuated but reopened 85 minutes later with no injuries reported. Cambridge's 2020 victory on penalties in the EFL Trophy group stage was their first over Peterborough in any competition since 1998, in what was the

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. Since Peterborough's relegation following the 2021–22 season, both clubs now compete in

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. The next derby will take place on 15 April 2023.

All-time results

League

Cup

Statistics

Statistics correct as of match played on 12 November 2019.

Notes

References

{{United Kingdom Football Derbies England football derbies Football in Cambridgeshire Cambridge United F.C. Peterborough United F.C. 1956 establishments in England