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==Supporters and rivalries== {{Main|Garra Blanca}} Colo-Colo is the club with the largest following in Chile, with approximately 42% of the total [[Football in Chile|Chilean football]] fans according to research published in August 2012 by Spanish newspaper agency [[Marca (newspaper)|Marca]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.marca.com/2012/07/23/futbol/futbol_internacional/chile/1343054579.html | title = Chile es del 'Colo' aunque gane la 'U' | publisher = [[Marca.com]] | date = 23 August 2012 | access-date = 30 March 2013 | archive-date = 27 December 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211227052608/https://www.marca.com/2012/07/23/futbol/futbol_internacional/chile/1343054579.html | url-status = live }}</ref> The study showed a 4% growth in comparison to 2006 research by Fundaci贸n Futuro that ranked the club in first place with the 38% of the preferences, leaving its rival Universidad de Chile in second place.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.fundacionfuturo.cl/admin/publicos/Mundial.pdf | title = Mundial | work = Fundaci贸n Futuro | date = 31 October 2007 | access-date = 30 March 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131003045937/http://www.fundacionfuturo.cl/admin/publicos/Mundial.pdf | archive-date = 3 October 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref> The Chilean football club with the highest number of followers on social media as of June 2020 was Colo-Colo, with 4.2 million followers. Arch-rivals [[Club Universidad de Chile]] ranked second with 2.1 million followers on social networks.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/1170281/most-popular-soccer-club-chile-social-media-followers/ | title=Most popular Chilean soccer clubs on social media | Statista }}</ref> Since the early 1960s, the club has had organized fan groups, which evolved in the mid-1980s into the so-called ''[[Garra Blanca]]''. They attended Colo-Colo's games and generally rioted, especially in derbies, turning [[Estadio Monumental David Arellano|Estadio Monumental]] surroundings into battlefields against the [[Carabineros de Chile|military police]]. In 2000, the group was declared as [[Barra brava]]. Colo-Colo contests rivalries with fellow Santiago clubs [[Club Deportivo Universidad Cat贸lica|Universidad Cat贸lica]] dubbed ''[[Colo Colo-Universidad Cat贸lica rivalry|Cl谩sico Albo-Cruzado]]'' and [[Deportes Magallanes]] dubbed ''Cl谩sico de la Chilenidad''. === Chilean Supercl谩sico === {{Main|Chilean Supercl谩sico}} Colo-Colo's traditional rival is [[Club Universidad de Chile|Universidad de Chile]], against which it plays the so-called Chilean Classic or ''Chilean Supercl谩sico''. Although the first confrontation between the two clubs dates back to 1935, the rivalry began to develop in the 1940s and 1950s, with the match played on 11 November 1959, being the climax of a series of disagreements between the two institutions. That match, valid for the definition of that year's title, ended with a 2-1 victory for Universidad de Chile, which was the first of a series of good results for the "Azules" over Colo-Colo. This, added to the dominance of Universidad de Chile in the national championship, only increased the rivalry. In recent years the rivalry between these teams has diminished, leaving Colo-Colo as superior to Universidad de Chile, and because of that, it has been considered as the "most unequal rivalry in the world."
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