100+ Football Trivia Questions & Answers

Manchester United with 13 Premier League titles (1992-93 to 2012-13).

Alan Shearer with 260 Premier League goals, scored for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.

Arsenal in 2003-04, earning the nickname 'The Invincibles'. They won 26 and drew 12 of their 38 matches.

20 teams compete in the Premier League each season.

Manchester United, managed by Sir Alex Ferguson.

Ryan Giggs with 162 assists across his career at Manchester United.

Petr Cech with 202 clean sheets for Chelsea and Arsenal.

James Milner, with 658 appearances for Leeds United, Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Manchester City, Liverpool and Brighton & Hove Albion between 2002 and 2026. He passed Gareth Barry's 653 with his 654th appearance at Brentford on 21 February 2026.

Sadio Mane scored a hat-trick in 2 minutes 56 seconds for Southampton against Aston Villa in May 2015.

Leicester City, managed by Claudio Ranieri, in one of sport's greatest-ever underdog stories.

Erling Haaland scored 36 goals for Manchester City in the 2022-23 season.

Alan Shearer, who became the first player to reach 100 Premier League goals on 30 December 1995, scoring for Blackburn Rovers in a 2-1 home win over Tottenham Hotspur.

Brian Deane scored the first Premier League goal for Sheffield United against Manchester United on 15 August 1992.

Sir Alex Ferguson with 13 titles, all with Manchester United between 1993 and 2013.

Jamie Vardy scored in 11 consecutive Premier League matches for Leicester City in 2015-16.

Manchester United beat Ipswich Town 9-0 in March 1995 — equalled by Manchester United 9-0 Southampton in 2021.

Michael Owen scored a hat-trick aged 18 years and 62 days for Liverpool against Sheffield Wednesday in February 1998.

Manchester City with 100 points in the 2017-18 season under Pep Guardiola.

Crystal Palace, Middlesbrough, and Nottingham Forest were all relegated at the end of the first Premier League season in 1992-93.

Shane Long scored after 7.69 seconds for Southampton against Watford in April 2019.

Brazil with 5 World Cup wins (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002).

Argentina, beating France on penalties in the final. Lionel Messi won the Golden Ball.

1930, hosted by Uruguay. Uruguay also won the tournament.

Kylian Mbappe of France, with 22 goals across three World Cups — 4 in 2018, 8 in 2022 and 10 in 2026. He overtook Lionel Messi (21) during the 2026 tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Miroslav Klose's 16 goals had stood as the record from 2014 until 2026.

Every four years. The 2026 World Cup was hosted by the USA, Canada and Mexico and won by Spain, who beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time in the final on 19 July 2026. The next edition is the 2030 World Cup, hosted by Morocco, Portugal and Spain, with three centenary matches in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay.

England, beating West Germany 4-2 in the final at Wembley. Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick.

48 teams, expanded from 32 for the first time in World Cup history.

Diego Maradona scored it against England in the quarter-final. He also scored the 'Goal of the Century' in the same match.

Cristiano Ronaldo. In 2026 he became the first and only player to score in six different World Cup tournaments (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2026). Lionel Messi has scored in five — he appeared at six but did not score at the 2010 tournament.

West Germany's 3-2 victory over Hungary in the 1954 World Cup final, considered one of the greatest upsets in football history.

Brazil have appeared in every FIFA World Cup since the tournament's inception in 1930.

No Golden Boot was awarded in 1930. FIFA first presented the award — then called the adidas Golden Shoe, renamed the Golden Boot in 2010 — at the 1982 World Cup, where Paolo Rossi of Italy won it with 6 goals. FIFA retroactively lists the top scorers of earlier tournaments among the winners, the first being Guillermo Stabile of Argentina with 8 goals in 1930, but he received no such award at the time.

The 1958 final: Brazil 5-2 Sweden. Also, the 2022 final (Argentina 3-3 France, with Argentina winning on penalties) featured 6 goals in regular/extra time.

Cameroon, led by 38-year-old Roger Milla, beat Argentina in the opening match and reached the quarter-finals.

Zinedine Zidane and Rigobert Song each received two red cards across their World Cup careers.

Hakan Sukur of Turkey scored after 11 seconds against South Korea in the 2002 World Cup third-place play-off.

El Salvador, thrashed 10-1 by Hungary at the 1982 World Cup in Elche — the biggest margin of victory in World Cup history and the only double-digit score at a finals tournament. Hungary 9-0 South Korea (1954) and Yugoslavia 9-0 Zaire (1974) share the same nine-goal margin. Brazil's 7-1 loss to Germany in 2014 is a six-goal margin and stands as the heaviest defeat in a World Cup semi-final.

Roger Milla of Cameroon scored aged 42 years and 39 days against Russia at the 1994 World Cup.

1982 World Cup in Spain. The first shootout was in the semi-final between West Germany and France.

Zinedine Zidane scored in both finals — two headers against Brazil in 1998 and a Panenka penalty against Italy in 2006.

Spain in 2010 lost their opening match 1-0 to Switzerland but went on to win the tournament.

Real Madrid with 15 titles (as of 2024).

The European Cup (officially the European Champion Clubs' Cup), first held in 1955-56.

Liverpool came back from 3-0 down against AC Milan in Istanbul to win on penalties. It's known as the 'Miracle of Istanbul'.

Cristiano Ronaldo with 140 goals for Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Juventus.

From 2024-25, the Champions League uses a 36-team league phase instead of the traditional group stage.

Nottingham Forest under Brian Clough won consecutive European Cups.

Handel's 'Zadok the Priest'. The anthem was composed by Tony Britten in 1992.

Real Madrid beat Stade de Reims 4-3 in the final held in Paris.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored in injury time. Teddy Sheringham had equalised moments before. Both goals came after the 90th minute against Bayern Munich.

Francisco Gento won 6 European Cups with Real Madrid (1956-1966). In the modern Champions League era, Dani Carvajal, Luka Modric, Toni Kroos, and Nacho each won 6 combined European Cup/Champions League titles.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored 17 goals in the 2013-14 season for Real Madrid.

Paris Saint-Germain, who won the 2024-25 final 5-0 against Inter Milan and retained the trophy in 2025-26, beating Arsenal 4-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw at the Puskas Arena on 30 May 2026. Before them it was Real Madrid, who won three in a row from 2015-16 to 2017-18 under Zinedine Zidane.

Mohamed Salah, in 6 minutes 12 seconds for Liverpool away to Rangers at Ibrox on 12 October 2022, a 7-1 win in which he came off the bench. He broke the record previously held by Bafetimbi Gomis, set for Lyon against Dinamo Zagreb on 7 December 2011.

Manchester United in 1968, beating Benfica 4-1 at Wembley with goals from Charlton (2), Best, and Kidd.

Across the competition's full history the answer is Liverpool, who won the final on penalties twice: 4-2 against Roma in 1984 and 3-2 against AC Milan in 2005. No club has done it twice since the 1992 rebrand — the Champions League-era shootout winners are Bayern Munich (2001), AC Milan (2003), Liverpool (2005), Chelsea (2012), Real Madrid (2016 v Atletico Madrid — the 2022 final was won 1-0, not on penalties) and Paris Saint-Germain (2026 v Arsenal).

Cristiano Ronaldo — he scored for Manchester United in the 2008 final and for Real Madrid in the 2014 and 2017 finals. Mario Mandzukic also did it, scoring for Bayern Munich in the 2013 final and for Juventus in 2017. Didier Drogba does not qualify: he scored in only one final (2012, for Chelsea). He did not score in the 2008 final at all — the goals there came from Ronaldo and Frank Lampard, and Drogba was sent off in extra time.

Several large aggregate wins exist, including Bayern Munich's 12-1 aggregate over Sporting CP in the 2008-09 round of 16.

Ajax, under coach Rinus Michels (1971) and then Stefan Kovacs (1972-73), featuring Johan Cruyff.

Patrick Kluivert scored in the 1995 final for Ajax aged 18 years and 327 days against AC Milan.

Cristiano Ronaldo with 130+ goals for Portugal (record still being extended as of 2025).

Lionel Messi with 8 Ballon d'Or awards (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023).

Lee Todd was sent off after 2 seconds for Cross Farm Park Celtic in 2000 for saying 'f*** me, that was loud' after the whistle.

90 minutes (two halves of 45 minutes each), plus any added stoppage time.

Rangers (Scotland) and Linfield (Northern Ireland) both claim the most with 55+ league titles each.

Daei scored his 100th international goal for Iran in 2004. Ali Daei held the men's record (109) until Cristiano Ronaldo surpassed it in 2021.

The record is ASEC Mimosas of Ivory Coast, unbeaten in 108 consecutive domestic matches (league and cup) between 1989 and 1994; Steaua Bucharest's 104 unbeaten league games (June 1986 - September 1989) is the European record. Bayer Leverkusen's celebrated 51-game unbeaten run in 2023-24 was across all competitions, not the Bundesliga — in the league they went unbeaten through all 34 matches of the season, and the run ended with a 3-0 defeat to Atalanta in the Europa League final on 22 May 2024.

Lionel Messi scored 91 goals in 2012 for Barcelona and Argentina.

AS Adema 149-0 SO l'Emyrne in Madagascar in 2002. SO l'Emyrne scored own goals in protest throughout the match.

Independiente (Argentina) with 7 Copa Libertadores titles.

Lev Yashin of the Soviet Union won the Ballon d'Or in 1963. He remains the only goalkeeper to have won it.

The longest shootout on record is 56 penalties: F.C. Dimona beat Shimshon Tel Aviv 23-22 in the Israeli third-tier (Liga Alef) promotion play-offs in May 2024. That broke the previous record of 54 penalties, set in March 2022 when Washington beat Bedlington Terriers 25-24 in the Ernest Armstrong Memorial Cup after a 3-3 draw. The original is wrong on all three counts — it was 2022, not 2009; the Ernest Armstrong Memorial Cup, not the FA Vase; and 25-24, not 14-13.

Lionel Messi holds the record with 50+ assists for Argentina.

Nawaf Al-Abed scored roughly two seconds from kick-off for Al-Hilal against Al-Shoulla on 7 November 2009, but in the Prince Faisal bin Fahd U-21 Cup, not a Saudi league match — and the result was annulled because Al-Hilal fielded six over-age players, with FIFA declining to recognise the goal. The most widely recognised mark is therefore Hakan Sukur's 11-second goal at the 2002 World Cup.

Tafea FC of Vanuatu hold the record with 15 consecutive national championships, from 1994 to 2008-09 (recorded by RSSSF as the world record). Skonto Riga's 14 in a row (1991-2004) is the European record, not the world record.

Neymar holds this record, but with combined fees of roughly EUR390-400 million, not 'exceeding EUR500 million': Santos to Barcelona in 2013 (EUR86.2m, initially declared as EUR57.1m), Barcelona to PSG in 2017 (EUR222m) and PSG to Al-Hilal in 2023 (EUR90m). His January 2025 return to Santos was a free transfer.

199,854 at the 1950 World Cup final (Uruguay vs Brazil) at the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro. Some estimates put the actual figure above 200,000.

Kazuyoshi Miura (born 26 February 1967), who made his Oliveirense debut in Liga Portugal 2 on 22 April 2023 aged 56 — in 2023, not 2024. He is still playing in 2026 aged 59, on loan at J3 League side Fukushima United, where he scored on 25 July 2026.

Brazil, the only nation to have appeared at every World Cup — 23 consecutive tournaments from 1930 to 2026 (the 2026 finals ran from 11 June to 19 July 2026 and were won by Spain).

Tommy Ross scored a hat-trick in 90 seconds for Ross County against Nairn County in 1964.

Neymar, who moved from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for EUR222 million in 2017.

Real Madrid, for a then-world-record fee of GBP80 million.

The summer window (typically June to August/September) and the January window (typically the whole month of January).

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on a free transfer after Barcelona could not register his new contract under La Liga's financial fair play rules.

A player whose contract has expired can join a new club without a transfer fee. Named after Jean-Marc Bosman, whose 1995 court case established this right in EU law.

Manchester United for GBP25.6 million when Rooney was just 18 years old.

Enzo Fernandez from Benfica for GBP107 million in January 2023.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who went Ajax (2001) to Juventus (2004) to Inter (2006) to Barcelona (2009) to AC Milan (2010, initially on loan). Patrick Kluivert never played for Juventus or Inter — his path was Ajax, AC Milan, Barcelona, Newcastle, Valencia, PSV, Lille. Edgar Davids did play for all five clubs, but in a different order: Ajax, AC Milan (1996), Juventus (1997), Barcelona (2004, loan), Inter (2004-05).

Trevor Francis moved from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest for GBP1 million in February 1979.

Luis Suarez, after scoring 31 Premier League goals in the 2013-14 season.

Virgil van Dijk for GBP75 million, a world-record fee for a defender at the time.

Real Madrid, from Juventus for EUR77.5 million.

Gareth Bale for approximately GBP85 million (EUR100 million).

West Ham United sold Declan Rice to Arsenal for a reported GBP105 million.

Neymar's EUR222 million (about GBP198m) move from Barcelona to PSG in 2017 was the first transfer above GBP100 million — but not the first above EUR100 million. Gareth Bale's 2013 move from Tottenham to Real Madrid was later revealed by Football Leaks to be EUR100.8m (GBP85.1m), and Paul Pogba's 2016 move from Juventus to Manchester United was EUR105m (GBP89.2m).

Kylian Mbappe. PSG announced his signing from Monaco in August 2017 on loan with an obligation to buy for EUR180 million, when he was 18 (born 20 December 1998) — explicitly the most expensive teenager ever. Joao Felix is next, at EUR126m (GBP113m) from Benfica to Atletico Madrid aged 19 in 2019. Endrick's 2024 move from Palmeiras to Real Madrid was worth up to about EUR72m, nowhere near the record.

The Webster ruling is the Court of Arbitration for Sport decision of 30 January 2008, in the case of Andy Webster, who left Hearts for Wigan Athletic in August 2006 with a year left on his contract. It confirmed that under Article 17 of FIFA's regulations a player may unilaterally terminate his contract once the 'protected period' has expired — three years for a contract signed before the player's 28th birthday, two years if signed at 28 or older — on payment of compensation. CAS cut the sum Webster owed to GBP150,000, down from the GBP625,000 set by FIFA's Dispute Resolution Chamber.

Trick question: they were bought in different windows. Veron and van Nistelrooy arrived in summer 2001; Ferdinand joined Manchester United in summer 2002.

The year in the question is wrong: Kepa Arrizabalaga joined Chelsea on 8 August 2018, not 2019, when his EUR80 million (GBP71.6m) release clause was paid — still the highest fee ever paid for a goalkeeper. Reword the question to 2018; the answer text itself is fine.

One of the largest is Philippe Coutinho: Liverpool bought him for approximately GBP8.5 million from Inter in 2013 and sold him to Barcelona for GBP142 million in 2018, a profit of over GBP130 million.