Abstract: | Let be a positive integer. The Bermond–Thomassen conjecture states that, a digraph of minimum out-degree at least contains vertex-disjoint directed cycles. A digraph is called a local tournament if for every vertex of , both the out-neighbours and the in-neighbours of induce tournaments. Note that tournaments form the subclass of local tournaments. In this paper, we verify that the Bermond–Thomassen conjecture holds for local tournaments. In particular, we prove that every local tournament with contains disjoint cycles , satisfying that either has the length at most 4 or is a shortest cycle of the original digraph of for . |