Football quiz questions with answers

Sixty football trivia questions on the World Cup, the European Cup, English football history and the Laws of the Game. Play ten at a time with a score, or reveal the answers and read them out as football pub quiz questions.

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All 60 football quiz questions and answers

Easy football quiz questions (20)

Which country won the 2010 FIFA World Cup?
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Spain Spain beat the Netherlands 1–0 in Johannesburg, with Andrés Iniesta scoring in extra time.
Which country hosted and won the 1966 World Cup?
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England England beat West Germany 4–2 after extra time in the final at Wembley.
How many players does each team have on the pitch at kick-off, including the goalkeeper?
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11 The Laws of the Game allow a maximum of 11 players per team, one of whom must be the goalkeeper.
How long is a standard football match, not counting added time?
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90 minutes A match is two halves of 45 minutes; extra time, if needed, adds two halves of 15 minutes.
Who scored a hat-trick for England in the 1966 World Cup final?
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Geoff Hurst Hurst scored three in the 4–2 win; Martin Peters got England's other goal.
Which English club is nicknamed "the Red Devils"?
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Manchester United The Red Devils nickname has been linked with Manchester United since the 1960s.
What colour card does a referee show to send a player off?
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Red A yellow card is a caution; a red card (or a second yellow in the same match) is a sending-off.
Which country won five men's World Cups between 1958 and 2002?
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Brazil Brazil won in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002.
Which club plays its home matches at Anfield?
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Liverpool Liverpool have played at Anfield since the club was founded in 1892. Everton played there before them.
What is the name of England's national football stadium in London?
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Wembley Stadium The new Wembley opened in 2007 on the site of the original 1923 stadium. Twickenham is the home of English rugby union.
Which country did Pelé play for at the World Cup?
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Brazil Pelé won three World Cups with Brazil: 1958, 1962 and 1970.
Which player scored the "Hand of God" goal against England at the 1986 World Cup?
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Diego Maradona Maradona punched the ball in, then scored a brilliant solo goal minutes later in Argentina's 2–1 quarter-final win.
How many points does a team get for a win in the Premier League?
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3 English league football switched from two points to three for a win in 1981.
Which London club is nicknamed "the Gunners"?
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Arsenal The name comes from the club's roots at the Royal Arsenal munitions works in Woolwich.
Which country hosted the 2014 World Cup?
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Brazil Brazil hosted in 2014; Germany won the final 1–0 against Argentina in Rio de Janeiro.
From what distance is a penalty kick taken?
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12 yards (11 metres) The penalty mark is 11 m (12 yd) from the goal line. The 18-yard line marks the edge of the penalty area.
Which country won Euro 2016?
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Portugal Portugal beat hosts France 1–0 after extra time at the Stade de France; Éder scored the winner.
Which country won the 2018 World Cup in Russia?
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France France beat Croatia 4–2 in the final in Moscow.
Which club plays home matches at the Old Trafford football ground?
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Manchester United Manchester United have played at Old Trafford since 1910.
What is it called when one player scores three goals in a single match?
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A hat-trick A brace is two goals; a clean sheet means not conceding a goal.

Medium football quiz questions (20)

Which country won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930?
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Uruguay Hosts Uruguay beat Argentina 4–2 in the final in Montevideo.
Which club became the first English winners of the European Cup, in 1968?
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Manchester United United beat Benfica 4–1 after extra time at Wembley, ten years after the Munich air disaster.
Which club became the first British team to win the European Cup, in 1967?
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Celtic Celtic's "Lisbon Lions" beat Inter Milan 2–1 in Lisbon.
Who captained England to the 1966 World Cup?
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Bobby Moore Moore lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy at Wembley after the 4–2 win over West Germany.
How many times did Nottingham Forest win the European Cup under Brian Clough?
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Twice Forest won in 1979 against Malmö and in 1980 against Hamburg.
Which country won Euro 2004 as outsiders, beating the hosts in the final?
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Greece Greece beat Portugal 1–0 in Lisbon; Angelos Charisteas scored the goal.
Which country won Euro 1992 after joining the tournament as a late replacement?
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Denmark Denmark replaced Yugoslavia shortly before the finals and beat Germany 2–0 in the final.
In the 2005 Champions League final in Istanbul, Liverpool came back from 3–0 down against which club?
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AC Milan Liverpool drew 3–3 and won the penalty shoot-out 3–2.
Which country won Euro 1988, with Marco van Basten scoring a famous volley in the final?
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Netherlands The Netherlands beat the Soviet Union 2–0 in Munich.
From which restart can a player NOT be penalised for offside if they receive the ball directly?
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A throw-in Law 11: there is no offside offence from a goal kick, a throw-in or a corner kick.
Which club was the first English team to win the treble of league title, FA Cup and European Cup?
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Manchester United United won the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1998–99.
Who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013?
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Sir Alex Ferguson Ferguson won 13 league titles and two European Cups in his time at the club.
In which year was the first FA Cup final played?
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1872 Wanderers beat Royal Engineers 1–0 at the Kennington Oval. The Football Association itself was founded in 1863.
In which season was the first Football League played?
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1888–89 Preston North End won that first league season without losing a match and also won the FA Cup.
Who won the Ballon d'Or in 1998, the year he scored twice in the World Cup final?
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Zinedine Zidane Zidane headed two goals in France's 3–0 win over Brazil in the 1998 final.
Who was the first goalkeeper to win the Ballon d'Or?
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Lev Yashin The Soviet keeper won the award in 1963.
Which country hosted Euro 96?
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England England hosted Euro 96; Germany won the final at Wembley.
Who scored the golden goal that won the Euro 96 final?
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Oliver Bierhoff Bierhoff scored both of Germany's goals in the 2–1 win over the Czech Republic.
Which club won the old First Division title in 1989 with a late goal in the final match at Anfield?
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Arsenal Michael Thomas scored in stoppage time to give Arsenal the 2–0 win they needed.
Which country knocked England out of Euro 2016 in the round of 16?
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Iceland Iceland won 2–1 in Nice.

Hard football quiz questions (20)

Who scored the winning goal for Manchester United in the 1999 Champions League final?
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær Sheringham equalised in stoppage time and Solskjær won it 2–1 against Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou.
Which club won the first five European Cups, from 1956 to 1960?
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Real Madrid Real Madrid won the competition in each of its first five seasons.
Who were the first winners of the FA Cup?
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Wanderers Wanderers beat Royal Engineers 1–0 in the 1872 final.
Which English club won the European Cup in 1982?
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Aston Villa Villa beat Bayern Munich 1–0 in Rotterdam; Peter Withe scored.
Which French striker scored 13 goals at the 1958 World Cup?
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Just Fontaine Fontaine's 13 goals in Sweden set the record for a single World Cup tournament.
Which German striker reached 16 World Cup goals in 2014, passing Ronaldo's record?
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Miroslav Klose Klose scored his 16th in Germany's 7–1 semi-final win over Brazil.
Which country did England beat in the 1966 World Cup semi-final?
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Portugal England won 2–1 at Wembley with two goals from Bobby Charlton.
In which year was the "White Horse Final", the first FA Cup final at Wembley?
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1923 Bolton Wanderers beat West Ham United 2–0 in front of a huge overflowing crowd.
Which Northern Irish winger won the European Cup and the Ballon d'Or in 1968?
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George Best Best scored in the 4–1 final win over Benfica and won the Ballon d'Or the same year.
Which country won the 1954 World Cup in the "Miracle of Bern"?
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West Germany West Germany came from 2–0 down to beat the favourites Hungary 3–2.
Which body writes the Laws of the Game?
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The International Football Association Board (IFAB) IFAB was founded in 1886 by the four British associations; FIFA joined it in 1913.
Who was the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final?
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Kevin Moran Moran of Manchester United was sent off against Everton in 1985; United still won 1–0.
Which club did Brian Clough lead to the First Division title in 1971–72?
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Derby County Clough won the league with Derby, then again with Nottingham Forest in 1977–78.
Which Dutch club won three European Cups in a row from 1971 to 1973?
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Ajax Ajax, with Johan Cruyff, won in 1971, 1972 and 1973. Feyenoord had won in 1970.
Who won the Golden Ball as the best player at Italia 90?
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Salvatore Schillaci Schillaci also won the Golden Boot with six goals.
At which World Cup did Gary Lineker win the Golden Boot?
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1986 Lineker scored six goals at Mexico 86.
Which Frenchman won the Ballon d'Or three years in a row, from 1983 to 1985?
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Michel Platini Platini was playing for Juventus at the time.
How old was Pelé when he scored twice in the 1958 World Cup final?
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17 Brazil beat hosts Sweden 5–2 in Stockholm.
Who managed England to the 1966 World Cup?
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Sir Alf Ramsey Ramsey's side were nicknamed the "Wingless Wonders".
Which Liverpool manager won the European Cup in 1977, 1978 and 1981?
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Bob Paisley Paisley was the first manager to win the European Cup three times.

How to use this football quiz

There are two ways to use the 60 questions above. Play the quiz gives you ten random questions with four options each. Tap an answer and you see straight away whether you were right, with a one-line explanation, and your score comes up at the end. Press “Play again” and you get ten different questions, so a few rounds will take you through the whole set. Pick a level from the menu to play only the easy, medium or hard questions.

Question list shows every question with its answer hidden under “Show answer”. This is the mode for a quizmaster: open answers one at a time as you mark, or press “Reveal all answers” before you print a crib sheet.

How to run a football pub quiz night

These football pub quiz questions are grouped by difficulty, which makes rounds easy to build. A simple format that works in most pubs and clubs:

Teams of up to six, each with one answer sheet. Ask phones to stay in pockets; one warning, then the team loses the round.
Three rounds of ten: one easy, one medium, one hard. Read each question twice and allow about 30 seconds before the next.
Score by difficulty: 1 point for an easy question, 2 for medium and 3 for hard. That stops the hard round being a lottery and rewards the teams who really know their football.
Swap sheets to mark between rounds while you read out the answers and the one-line explanations. The explanations settle most arguments.
Tie-breaker: keep back one hard question with a number for an answer, such as the year of the first FA Cup final (1872). Each tied team writes a number; nearest wins.

Worked example: a 30-minute round

Say you have half an hour between the curry and the raffle. Take 6 easy, 6 medium and 3 hard questions. With the 1-2-3 scoring above the maximum is 6 × 1 + 6 × 2 + 3 × 3 = 27 points. A team that gets all the easy ones, four of the medium and one hard question scores 6 + 8 + 3 = 17, which is a good showing. Most of the hard questions depend on a single name or year, so decide before you start whether a surname on its own counts, and announce it.

How the questions were chosen

A football quiz with answers is only useful if the answers are right, so we followed three rules when writing these football quiz questions:

Only settled facts. Past World Cup and European Cup finals, founding dates, retired players and the Laws of the Game. Nothing about current tables, current managers or transfers.
Records are fixed to a date. Instead of “who has scored the most World Cup goals?”, which could change at the next tournament, we ask which German reached 16 goals in 2014. The answer can never go out of date.
One right answer, three fair wrong ones. The wrong options are real players, clubs or years from the same era, so guessing is hard but no option is a trick.

The easy round suits casual fans and younger players, the medium round needs a decent memory of the last few decades, and the hard round is for the person in your team who still talks about Italia 90.

How we tested

The quiz runs on one small engine, and we wrote automated Node tests for it (tests/quiz.test.js) and ran them before publishing. They read the question list straight from this page's source and check that:

all 60 questions have a unique id and no question appears twice;
every question has exactly four different options, and the correct answer is one of them;
a round always contains 10 different questions, and a second round avoids the questions from the first while enough are left;
after the options are shuffled, the engine still knows which button is right: in 600 test rounds (6,000 shuffled questions) per quiz the correct answer landed in each of the four positions about a quarter of the time, and was always the one marked correct;
the score counts only right answers (all right gives 10/10, all wrong gives 0/10, and answering the same question twice is ignored).

Facts were checked separately. Every question was written from long-established football history. Where we were less than certain of a detail, we checked it against Wikipedia and match reports before including it: for example, that Salvatore Schillaci won the Golden Ball at Italia 90 and that Kevin Moran was the first player sent off in an FA Cup final. Questions whose answer could change after 2025, such as all-time scoring records held by active players, were left out or rewritten with a fixed date.

Every question was then reviewed a second time in a separate fact-check pass, and the details we doubted were checked against Wikipedia and news reports.

Those are the only tests we ran: we have not tried the quiz with groups of players or on a range of phones, so if something looks wrong, please tell us.

Frequently asked questions

Are these questions suitable for children?

The easy round is fine for most children from about ten who follow football: it covers the rules, famous clubs and recent World Cup winners. The medium and hard rounds lean on history from the 1950s to the 1990s, which adults and older fans will find fairer.

Why are there no questions about this season?

On purpose. Current league positions, top scorers and managers change every week, so a question that is right today can be wrong by the time you read it out. Every question here is fixed to a past event or a permanent rule.

Can I use these questions at my pub or club quiz?

Yes. They are free to read out at a pub, club, school or charity quiz. Use “Print with answers” for the quizmaster’s sheet and “Print questions only” if you want to hand out sheets for teams to write on.

Is my best score saved?

Your best score for each level is kept in your own browser on this device, so you can try to beat it later. Nothing is sent to a server and there is no sign-up.

I think an answer is wrong. What should I do?

Please tell us through the contact details in the footer, with a source if you have one. Accuracy matters more to us than anything else on this page, and a confirmed mistake will be fixed or the question removed.

Last updated: 25 October 2026