Football Quiz Questions and Answers
100 Football General Quiz Questions and Answers Part 1 (Quiz 1-20)
1) Who were Liverpool’s first opponents in the Football League?
Answer: Middlesbrough Ironopolis.
2) Where was the 1980 European Cup Winners’ Cup Final held?
Answer: Belgium.
3) Where was the 2006 Champions League Final held?
Answer: Paris.
4) What is the name of the world’s largest football ground?
Answer: Rungrado 1st of May Stadium.
5) What is the highest number of goals that FC Barcelona has scored in a league season?
Answer: 116.
6) The Oval, London has a very special place in soccer history. Can you say why?
Answer: Of being the final venue of the oldest football clubs championship.
7) Liverpool’s win of the European Cup in 1976 -77 was only the second by a British club. Who were the first?
Answer: Glasgow Celtic.
8) When and where was the first world cup championship held?
Answer: 1930 at Uruguay.
9) Who won the Premier League 2012-13?
Answer: Manchester United.
10) Who were the first host nation to go out in the first round of the world cup?
Answer: South Africa.
11) Who was the first world cup trophy named after?
Answer: Jules Rimet.
12) Who has scored the most hat tricks in La Liga for Barcelona?
Answer: Lionel Messi.
13) What do the two football Dundee United F.C. and Celtic F.C have in common?
Answer: Both belong to Scotland.
14) Who scored Liverpool’s only goal in the 1978 European Cup Final?
Answer: Kenny Dalglish.
15) Name the player to have been capped most often by his country?
Answer: Héctor Chumpitaz.
16) How many Barcelona players have won the World Player of the Year award?
Answer: 5.
17) What does Copa Libertadores mean?
Answer: The South American Cup for Clubs.
18) Mark Hateley was top scorer in 1984 and then sold to which club?
Answer: AC Milan.
19) Name the oldest member of a World Cup Winning Team:
Answer: Dino Zoff (Italy) – 40 years in 1982.
20) Billy Buffalo is the mascot of which NFL team?
Answer: Buffalo Bills.
21) Who was the first winner of the “Golden Boot Award” and when?
Answer: Eusébio (Benfica) in 1967-68.
Football Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 Part 2 (Quiz 21-40)
22) When did a sixteen year old Alan Knight make his League debut?
Answer: 1978.
23) Can you score a goal directly from a flag kick ?
Answer: Yes.
24) What is the name of the Houston Texans mascot?
Answer: Toro.
25) Can you be ‘off side’ from a flag kick?
Answer: No.
26) Who was known as ‘Mad Dog’?
Answer: Martin Allen.
27) How many countries took part in first World Cup Championship and who won?
Answer: Thirteen, Uruguay.
28) “Nittany Lion” is the mascot for which college team?
Answer: Penn State University.
29) Which country won the Jules Rimet Trophy outright by winning the world cup four times?
Answer: Brazil (1958,1962, 1970 and 1994).
30) Which former ‘Footballer of the Year’ went to play for Nagoya Grampus Eight instead of competing in the inaugural Premier League?
Answer: Gary Lineker.
31) Which countries have won the world cup thrice?
Answer: Italy (1934, 1938 and 1982), W. Germany (1954, 1974 and 1990).
32) What is the highest number of goals that Manchester United has scored in a league season?
Answer: 103.
33) Who has played in the maximum number of World Cup Competitions?
Answer: Antonio Carbajal of Mexico. 5 [(1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966).
34) Which Czech Republic player scored a hat-trick for Liverpool against Chelsea in 1997?
Answer: Patrik Berger.
35) Who is the only player to have been a member of the World Cup winning team thrice?
Answer: Pele (Brazil).
36) What is Manchester United’s training ground better known as?
Answer: Carrington.
37) Who holds the record of most goals scored in a single World Cup Com-petition?
Answer: 13, Just Fontaine (France) in 1958.
38) Which London club was the first Premiership team to be relegated twice?
Answer: Crystal Palace.
39) Who is nick-named ‘Der Kaiser’?
Answer: Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany), former Captain and Coach.
40) Who has scored the most hat tricks for Manchester United?
Answer: Denis Law.
Football Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 Part 3 (Quiz 41-60)
41) What is Pele’s real and full name?
Answer: Edson Arantes do Nascimento.
42) Which Birmingham City player was responsible for the tackle that broke Eduardo’s leg in 2008?
Answer: Martin Taylor.
43) Who is the best football player of Europe in 1998?
Answer: Zinedine Zidane, France.
44) What are the longer sides of a football pitch called?
Answer: Touchlines.
45) What is the prize for the best football player of Europe?
Answer: Golden Football.
46) Where did legendary goalkeeper David Seaman go after leaving Arsenal?
Answer: Manchester City.
47) Which American Club did Pele play for in his last playing days?
Answer: Cosmos.
48) Which was the first football club to founded?
Answer: Sheffield Football Club.
49) Of which Brazilian Club was Pele a member?
Answer: Santos.
50) Which two Arsenal players were sent off versus Chelsea in September 2015?
Answer: Gabriel Paulista and Santi Cazorla.
51) What was Pele’s career record before he joined Cosmos?
Answer: 1216 goals from 1254 matches.
52) Which is the most successful British women’s football club?
Answer: Arsenal Women’s FC.
53) If a team scores on the stroke of half time or full time, must the ball be kicked off again before the referee signals the interval or end of play?
Answer: No, not necessary.
54) In 2006, who took over from Prince Andrew as the President of the English Football Association?
Answer: Prince William.
55) Who was called the “Female Pele”?
Answer: Beverley Ranger (U.K).
56) “The Salvation” and “Elizabeth” are two films starring which former Manchester United football player?
Answer: Eric Cantona.
57) When were the first rules of the game of Football framed and where?
Answer: 1848 Cambridge, England.
58) Which Scottish football team are named after the Latin word for “Ireland”?
Answer: Hibernian.
59) Tragedies resulting in spectator deaths are not common in Football. Which was the first such tragedy which killed 25 in the U.K?
Answer: 1902, Ibrox Park.
60) Who scored the only goal for Chelsea in the 2017/2018 season FA cup finals against Manchester United?
Answer: Eden hazard.
Football Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 Part 4 (Quiz 61-80)
61) Can you recall the air crash in Italy which killed all on board including the players of a Champion Football Club. Give the year and the name of the club?
Answer: 1949, Torino, the Italian champion side.
62) In 1990, which country’s football team became the first ever to fail to score in a World Cup final?
Answer: Argentina.
63) In 1958 another air crash killed eight top players of a famous-English football club. Which club?
Answer: Manchester United at Munich.
64) In 2017, which player won the Chelsea’ player of the year award?
Answer: Eden Hazard.
65) Who was the first footballer to be knighted?
Answer: Sir Stanley Matthews in 1965.
66) What year were Arsenal founded?
Answer: 1886.
67) Who was the first footballer to play a century of Internationals?
Answer: Billy Wright (England) played his 100th in 1959.
68) Former Chelsea Player Nicolas Anelka played his international football from which country?
Answer: France.
69) When was Football included in the Olympics?
Answer: 1908, London.
70) What year were Liverpool founded?
Answer: 1892.
71) Who won the Olympics gold in 1908?
Answer: U.K.
72) Who is the only British player to win the Golden Boot as top scorer at a final?
Answer: Gary Lineker.
73) Who has been the runners-up at the two Olympics 1984 and 1988?
Answer: Brazil.
74) What year were Manchester City founded?
Answer: 1880.
75) When did the Football referees first use whistles?
Answer: 1878.
76) Which former League club based on the coast are called the Sandgrounders?
Answer: Southport.
77) The original FA. Cup begun in 1871 was stolen in 1895. From where? Was it replaced?
Answer: From a shop window in Birmingham. It was never found.
78) What is Lionel Messi’s middle name?
Answer: Andres.
79) Before the year 1937, a football was lighter than the one used subsequently. What is the weight difference?
Answer: Before 1937, 368 – 425 gm (13-15 oz) After 1937, 397- 454 gm (14-16 oz).
80) When did England first enter the World Cup?
Answer: 1950.
Football Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 Part 5 (Quiz 81-100)
81) Where was the 15th (1994) World Cup Football held?
Answer: U.S.A.
82) Who is Messi often compared to?
Answer: Diego Maradona.
83) A country won World Cup in 1954, 1974 and 1990. Name the country?
Answer: West Germany.
84) Which country knocked hosts Great Britain out in the last eight of the 2012 tournament?
Answer: South Korea.
85) Who scored the last goal for Brazil in the 1970 final to give Brazil the right to keep the Jules Rimet Trophy?
Answer: Carlos Alberto.
86) On 20th March 2012 Lionel Messi became top scorer in Barcelona’s history, whose record did he break?
Answer: Cesar Rodriguez.
87) Where was the 1970 world final played?
Answer: Aztec Stadium, Mexico.
88) Who is called “Beast Mode”?
Answer: Marshawn Lynch.
89) What is the highest score recorded in a first class match?
Answer: 36-0, Arbroath Bon Accord in a Scottish Cup match in 1885.
90) Which goalkeeper has made most premiership appearances?
Answer: David James.
91) What is the highest score in an international game?
Answer: England beat Australia 17-0 in 1951.
92) Which player is associated with the “Mile High Salute”?
Answer: Terrill Davis.
93) Which country did the great footballer Diego Maradona represents?
Answer: Argentina.
94) Which England player scored in 46 different Premier League games throughout his career – and didn’t lose any of them?
Answer: Darius Vassell.
95) Which country did the great footballer Marco van Basten represents?
Answer: Holland.
96) Name the team whose defensive line was called the “The Steel Curtain”?
Answer: Pittsburgh Steelers.
97) Which country did the great footballer Mirandinha represents?
Answer: Brazil.
98) Where did Manchester City play their home games before moving to Eastlands in 2003?
Answer: Maine Road.
99) Which country did the great footballer Danny McGrain represents?
Answer: Scotland.
100) When did Arsenal join The Football League?
Answer: 1893.
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