Most football quizzes ask you who scored in last year's cup final. This one asks you who scored the first goal in that competition's history. If you want to test whether your football knowledge is genuinely encyclopaedic or just surface-level, these fifty questions will sort it out.

Answers are at the bottom. No peeking.

Premier League

1. Who is the only player to have scored a Premier League hat-trick for three different clubs?

2. Which goalkeeper holds the record for the most consecutive Premier League clean sheets?

3. Only one player has won the Premier League Golden Boot while playing for a club that was relegated that season. Who?

4. Who scored the fastest Premier League goal from a substitute appearance?

5. Which club has finished 7th in the Premier League the most times?

6. Name the only player to have both scored and been sent off in a Premier League match on three separate occasions.

7. Who holds the record for the most Premier League assists in a single season?

8. Which manager has taken charge of the most Premier League matches without ever winning the league?

9. Only two players have scored 5 goals in a single Premier League match. Name both.

10. Who was the first non-European player to score a Premier League goal?

Champions League

11. Who scored the first-ever Champions League goal (in the rebranded format, 1992-93)?

12. Which club has appeared in the most Champions League semi-finals without ever winning the competition?

13. Name the only player to have scored in a Champions League final for three different clubs.

14. Which stadium has hosted the most Champions League finals?

15. Who is the youngest player to score a Champions League hat-trick?

16. Only one manager has won the Champions League with three different clubs. Who?

17. Which club holds the record for the biggest aggregate victory in a Champions League knockout tie?

18. Name the only goalkeeper to have scored a goal in the Champions League.

19. Who scored the latest goal (by match time) in Champions League history?

20. Which country has produced the most different Champions League-winning clubs?

World Cup

21. Who is the oldest player to have appeared in a World Cup finals match?

22. Which country has qualified for the most World Cups without ever reaching the semi-finals?

23. Name the only player to have been sent off in two different World Cup tournaments.

24. Who scored the fastest World Cup goal from the start of a match?

25. Which World Cup saw the fewest total goals scored in the group stage?

26. Only one player has scored in every match of a single World Cup (minimum 7 matches). Who?

27. Which country hosted the World Cup but failed to get past the group stage?

28. Name the only player to have won the World Cup Golden Ball (best player) while playing for the losing finalist.

29. Which World Cup match produced the most red cards?

30. Who is the only player to have scored a World Cup hat-trick as a substitute?

Transfers and Records

31. Before Neymar's £200m move to PSG, which player held the world transfer record?

32. Which club has spent the most money on transfer fees in a single window (all-time)?

33. Name the player who has been transferred for a fee the most times in their career.

34. Which was the first transfer to exceed £1 million?

35. Who was the most expensive teenager in football history at the time of their transfer?

36. Which club has sold players for the highest total revenue without being in the top flight of their country?

37. Name the most expensive goalkeeper transfer in history.

38. Which player's transfer fee has generated the highest total spend across all their moves combined?

39. What is the largest transfer fee ever paid between two clubs in the same league?

40. Who was the first player to be transferred for over £50 million?

Obscure and Historical

41. Which club has won their domestic league title the most times in world football?

42. Name the only player to have won the European Cup/Champions League, the Copa Libertadores, and the World Cup.

43. Which country was the first to introduce a professional football league?

44. Who holds the record for the most international goals in a calendar year?

45. Which stadium has the largest capacity in European football?

46. Name the only father-son duo to have both won the Ballon d'Or.

47. Which club went the longest unbeaten run in top-flight European football history?

48. Who is the most-capped international footballer of all time?

49. Which country has the most registered football players per capita?

50. Name the only player to have played in the World Cup final in three different decades.

Answers

  1. Yakubu Aiyegbeni (Blackburn, Portsmouth, Everton)
  2. Edwin van der Sar — 14 consecutive clean sheets (2008-09)
  3. Kevin Phillips — 30 goals for Sunderland in 1999-2000
  4. Shane Long — 7.69 seconds for Southampton vs Watford (2019)
  5. Everton
  6. Vinnie Jones
  7. Thierry Henry — 20 assists in 2002-03
  8. David Moyes
  9. Andy Cole (vs Ipswich, 1995) and Jermain Defoe (vs Wigan, 2009)
  10. Dalian Atkinson (Aston Villa vs Sheffield Wednesday, 1992)
  11. Alen Boksic (Marseille vs Rangers, November 1992)
  12. Bayern Munich (before finally winning it in 2001)
  13. No player has achieved this — it's a trick question. The closest is Cristiano Ronaldo with two clubs.
  14. Wembley Stadium (hosted 7 finals)
  15. Raúl — 18 years old (1995)
  16. Carlo Ancelotti (AC Milan x2, Real Madrid)
  17. Benfica beat Stade Dudelange 10-0 on aggregate (2018-19 qualifying)
  18. Sinan Bolat (Standard Liège vs AZ Alkmaar, 2009)
  19. Jerzy Dudek in the penalty shootout aside, the latest in open play: various stoppage-time goals
  20. Spain (Real Madrid, Barcelona) and England (multiple clubs) — tied
  21. Essam El-Hadary — 45 years, 161 days (Egypt, 2018 World Cup)
  22. Mexico
  23. Rigobert Song (1994 and 1998)
  24. Hakan Sukur — 11 seconds (Turkey vs South Korea, 2002)
  25. 1990 Italy — the lowest goals-per-game ratio in World Cup history
  26. Juste Fontaine — 13 goals in 6 matches (1958), though not every match
  27. South Africa (2010)
  28. Lionel Messi (2014)
  29. 2006 Round of 16: Portugal vs Netherlands (4 red cards, "Battle of Nuremberg")
  30. László Kiss (Hungary vs El Salvador, 1982)
  31. Paul Pogba (£89.3m to Manchester United, 2016)
  32. Chelsea in summer 2023 (over £400m)
  33. Nicolas Anelka — transferred for a fee 8 times
  34. Trevor Francis — Nottingham Forest, £1.18m (1979)
  35. Kylian Mbappé (£166m to PSG from Monaco, 2018 — initially loan then permanent)
  36. Benfica (regularly sell from Portugal's Liga)
  37. Kepa Arrizabalaga — £71.6m to Chelsea (2018)
  38. Neymar — combined fees exceeding £350m across all moves
  39. Jack Grealish — £100m from Aston Villa to Manchester City (2021, both PL)
  40. Fernando Torres — £50m from Liverpool to Chelsea (2011)
  41. Rangers or Celtic (Scottish football), though Al Ahly and Real Madrid also contend depending on the metric
  42. Ricky (Brazilian, though this is heavily debated — many sources cite no player has achieved all three)
  43. England (the Football League, 1888)
  44. Cristiano Ronaldo — scored over 60 goals in calendar year 2013
  45. Camp Nou (Barcelona) — capacity ~99,354
  46. No father-son duo has won the Ballon d'Or — this is a trick question
  47. Steaua Bucharest — 104 league matches unbeaten (1986-89)
  48. Bader Al-Mutawa (Kuwait) — 196 caps, though Ahmed Hassan (Egypt, 184) and Cristiano Ronaldo are close
  49. Iceland (by some measures) or Faroe Islands
  50. Cafu (1994, 1998, 2002)

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