30 Football Quiz Questions with Answers, from Easy to Hard

Looking for football quiz questions with answers you can trust? Below are 30 questions grouped into five categories: World Cup, Champions League, domestic leagues, players and records. Each round runs from easy to hard, and every answer is based on settled facts up to the end of the 2024-25 season, so you can use them for a quiz night, a classroom or a long car journey.

World Cup questions

1. Which country has won the most men’s World Cups? - Brazil, with five titles (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002).
2. Who won the 2022 World Cup in Qatar? - Argentina, beating France on penalties after a 3-3 draw.
3. Which country hosted the 2010 World Cup? - South Africa. Spain won it, with Andrés Iniesta scoring the winner against the Netherlands in extra time.
4. Where and when was the first World Cup played? - In Uruguay in 1930. The hosts won, beating Argentina 4-2 in the final.
5. Who is the all-time top scorer at men’s World Cup tournaments? - Miroslav Klose of Germany, with 16 goals across 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014.
6. Before Kylian Mbappé in 2022, who was the only player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final? - Geoff Hurst, for England against West Germany in 1966.

For a full round on the tournament, see our World Cup quiz.

Champions League questions

7. Which club came back from 3-0 down at half-time to win the 2005 final in Istanbul? - Liverpool, who beat AC Milan on penalties.
8. Who won the 2024-25 Champions League? - Paris Saint-Germain, who beat Inter 5-0 in the final in Munich to win their first title.
9. Which club has won the European Cup and Champions League the most times by the end of the 2024-25 season? - Real Madrid, with 15 titles.
10. Who scored the only goal of the 2023 final, which completed Manchester City’s treble? - Rodri, against Inter in Istanbul.
11. Which Portuguese club won the 2004 Champions League, beating Monaco 3-0 in the final? - Porto.
12. Who is the all-time top scorer in the Champions League? - Cristiano Ronaldo, with 140 goals.

Want more? Our Champions League trivia goes deeper into finals and records.

League questions

13. Which club went a whole Premier League season unbeaten in 2003-04? - Arsenal, nicknamed “The Invincibles” (26 wins and 12 draws).
14. In which season did Leicester City win the Premier League? - 2015-16.
15. Which club set the Premier League points record with 100 points? - Manchester City, in 2017-18.
16. Which club won the Bundesliga unbeaten in 2023-24, their first ever league title? - Bayer Leverkusen.
17. Which club has won the most Serie A titles? - Juventus.
18. Napoli won Serie A in 2022-23 for the first time since the Maradona era. In which season had they last won it? - 1989-90.

The Premier League trivia article has a full round on England’s top flight.

Player questions

19. Which player scored the “Hand of God” goal, and against whom? - Diego Maradona, against England in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final.
20. Who has won the most Ballon d’Or awards by the end of the 2024-25 season? - Lionel Messi, with eight.
21. Who won the 2024 Ballon d’Or? - Rodri.
22. Who scored the winning goal in the 2014 World Cup final? - Mario Götze, in extra time against Argentina.
23. Who won the 2018 Ballon d’Or, the first winner other than Messi or Ronaldo since 2007? - Luka Modrić.
24. Which defender won the Ballon d’Or in 2006, the year he captained Italy to the World Cup? - Fabio Cannavaro.

Record questions

25. Which country won Euro 2024, and how many European titles did that give them? - Spain, who beat England 2-1 in Berlin for a record fourth title.
26. Which outsiders won Euro 2004 by beating hosts Portugal 1-0 in the final? - Greece.
27. How many Premier League goals did Erling Haaland score in 2022-23, a record for a 38-game season? - 36.
28. Who scored 91 goals for club and country in the calendar year 2012? - Lionel Messi.
29. Who scored the fastest hat-trick in Premier League history, in 2 minutes 56 seconds in 2015? - Sadio Mané, for Southampton against Aston Villa.
30. Which player has made the most appearances at men’s World Cup tournaments? - Lionel Messi, with 26 matches by the end of the 2022 World Cup.

If the last few felt easy, try our hardest football trivia questions.

How to run a football quiz night

A good quiz night is about pace and fairness as much as the questions themselves.

• Use rounds. Five rounds of six, as above, keeps energy up. Read each round from easy to hard so every team scores early.
• Agree the rules up front. Decide whether spelling counts, whether half points are allowed (for example a correct scorer but wrong year), and whether phones go face down on the table.
• Mark between rounds. Swap answer sheets between teams and read the answers aloud. The arguments are half the fun.
• Add a tie-breaker. Ask a number question, such as “How many goals were scored at the 2022 World Cup?” (172, a record for the tournament), and give the point to the closest guess.
• Mix the formats. A picture round, a “name the club from the badge” round or a quick-fire minute keeps things lively.

Keep the facts settled

The quickest way to ruin a quiz is a disputed answer. Avoid questions about current squads, current managers or a player’s present club, because they change. Stick to finals, winners, hosts and records with a fixed date, and phrase them in the past tense, as we have done here.

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