Excelsior was founded as one of the first Dutch working-class clubs in the Kralingen district in eastern Rotterdam.
Feyenoord collected 16 Eredivisie trophies, while Sparta Rotterdam won the league six times.
Where Feyenoord and Sparta Rotterdam were successful on the highest level, Excelsior only won trophies on the second tier of Dutch football.
[2] Feyenoord have competed in all 57 seasons of the Eredivisie amassing the 3rd most points of any club after Ajax and PSV.
Feyenoord, on the other hand, was founded twenty years later, in the center of the working class district Feijenoord.
Sparta, the most successful Rotterdam club at the time, took its revenge over the friendly loss in the previous season and managed to defeat Feyenoord twice with a 1–0 score.
The last competitive meeting between the two clubs was in April 2010, with Feyenoord winning the Eredivisie match with a 3–0 score at De Kuip.
Such derby involves the two Rotterdam clubs who are currently behind Feyenoord in terms of awards and recent successes.
In June 2010, a Sparta-Excelsior two-legged derby occurred as a final the so-called nacompetitie, the promotion/relegation playoff tournament involving clubs from Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie.
Despite Sparta coming from Eredivisie and considered obvious favourites, and Excelsior being instead merely third-placed in the Eerste Divisie with a team mostly composed by Feyenoord loanees, it was Excelsior who won the two-legged game on away goals rule, after scoring a late equaliser in the final minutes of the return game at Sparta's home, Het Kasteel, and thus replacing their crosstown opponents in the Dutch top flight.
"[10] The players on the other hand state to be extra motivated in the Rotterdam derbies versus Feyenoord.