Champions League Trivia Questions & Quiz (2026)

Real Madrid, with 15 titles — including the first five European Cups in a row from 1956 to 1960. Their sixth came in 1966.

The European Champion Clubs' Cup, commonly known as the European Cup. It was renamed the UEFA Champions League in 1992.

Real Madrid beat Stade de Reims 4-3 in the final held in Paris on 13 June 1956.

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

Nottingham Forest under manager Brian Clough, a remarkable achievement for a club that had only been promoted to the First Division two years earlier.

Tony Britten's arrangement of George Frideric Handel's 'Zadok the Priest', composed for the competition's relaunch in 1992.

Real Madrid (five in a row from 1956 to 1960, and again in 2016, 2017 and 2018), Ajax (1971, 1972, 1973) and Bayern Munich (1974, 1975, 1976).

Six: Manchester United (1968, 1999, 2008), Liverpool (1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005, 2019), Nottingham Forest (1979, 1980), Aston Villa (1982), Chelsea (2012, 2021) and Manchester City (2023).

Benfica, who won in 1961 and 1962 — the first winners from outside the UK or Spain, after Real Madrid had taken the first five. The first Italian winners were AC Milan in 1963; Inter followed in 1964 and 1965.

The traditional group stage of 32 teams was replaced by a 36-team Swiss-model league phase, where each club plays 8 matches against different opponents.

The first UEFA Champions League final was won by Marseille, who beat AC Milan 1-0 with a Basile Boli header on 26 May 1993. However, Marseille were later stripped of French titles due to a match-fixing scandal.

Real Madrid, who have reached the knockout stage in every Champions League season since 1997-98 — 29 consecutive campaigns up to and including 2025-26.

This is a complex trivia category. More directly: the first club to win both the Champions League and UEFA Cup/Europa League in the same season is impossible — they are separate competitions.

Liverpool beat AC Milan on penalties in Istanbul, Turkey — known as 'The Miracle of Istanbul'. Alonso, Smicer, and Gerrard's goal made it 3-3 before the shootout.

Teddy Sheringham equalised in the 91st minute, then Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored the winner in the 93rd minute against Bayern Munich in Barcelona.

Istanbul, Turkey. Manchester City beat Inter Milan 1-0 with a Rodri goal to complete Pep Guardiola's treble.

Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0 in Paris, with Vinicius Jr scoring the only goal. Thibaut Courtois was outstanding in goal.

Zinedine Zidane. He scored a spectacular volley in the 2002 Champions League final for Real Madrid against Bayer Leverkusen.

The 2009 Champions League final at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi scored for Barcelona.

The 1960 European Cup final: Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt at Hampden Park, Glasgow. Alfredo Di Stéfano scored 3 and Ferenc Puskás scored 4.

Alfredo Di Stéfano and Ferenc Puskás share the record with seven goals each in European Cup finals. In the Champions League era (since 1992-93) Cristiano Ronaldo leads with four: one for Manchester United in 2008, one for Real Madrid in 2014 and two in 2017. His 2016 contribution was the winning kick in the shootout, which does not count as a goal.

Chelsea beat Bayern Munich on penalties in Munich's Allianz Arena on 19 May 2012. Didier Drogba scored the equaliser in the 88th minute.

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

Cristiano Ronaldo scored 17 goals in Real Madrid's 2013-14 Champions League campaign.

Real Madrid, with 18 European Cup/Champions League final appearances — 15 wins and three defeats (1962, 1964 and 1981).

Francisco Gento won 6 European Cups with Real Madrid (1956-1966). In the modern era, several Real Madrid players have won 5+ titles.

Manuel Neuer, with 62 Champions League clean sheets — seven for Schalke 04 and 55 for Bayern Munich. Iker Casillas is second on 57, for Real Madrid and Porto.

Five goals — a record shared three ways in the Champions League era: Lionel Messi (Barcelona 7-1 Bayer Leverkusen, round of 16, March 2012), Luiz Adriano (BATE Borisov 0-7 Shakhtar Donetsk, group stage, 21 October 2014) and Erling Haaland (Manchester City 7-0 RB Leipzig, round of 16, 2022-23).

Real Madrid and Liverpool, who have met in three finals: 1981 (Liverpool won 1-0), 2018 (Real Madrid won 3-1) and 2022 (Real Madrid won 1-0).

Cristiano Ronaldo, with 183 Champions League appearances for Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus. Iker Casillas is second on 177 — the most by a goalkeeper.

Real Madrid have the highest win percentage among clubs who have played 100+ Champions League matches.

Bayern Munich's 12-1 aggregate win over Sporting CP in the 2008-09 round of 16 (5-0 in Lisbon, 7-1 in Munich). Barcelona's 10-2 against Bayer Leverkusen also came in a round of 16, in 2011-12 — 3-1 away, then 7-1 at home with five Messi goals.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored in 11 consecutive Champions League matches for Real Madrid: the 2017 final against Juventus, then the first ten games of the 2017-18 campaign — all six group matches and both legs of the round of 16 and the quarter-finals — a run that ended on 11 April 2018.

Real Madrid won 6 Champions League titles in that period: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2024.

Divock Origi, who made it 2-0 in the 87th minute against Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid, after Mohamed Salah had opened the scoring from a second-minute penalty.

Liverpool beat Barcelona 4-0 at Anfield — and 4-3 on aggregate — in a famous comeback, with Georginio Wijnaldum scoring twice.

Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 in the final at Wembley. Dani Carvajal and Vinicius Jr scored.

Hakim Ziyech (7') and David Neres (18') put Ajax in control as they won 4-1 at the Bernabéu, with Dusan Tadic and Lasse Schöne also scoring. That was the round-of-16 second leg on 5 March 2019 — not the quarter-finals — and Ajax won the tie 5-3 on aggregate.

Vinícius Júnior, named the 2023/24 UEFA Champions League Player of the Season after scoring six goals in the campaign, including in the final against Borussia Dortmund. Jude Bellingham was named Young Player of the Season.

He became the first player to score in each of his first four Champions League appearances for Real Madrid — a 94th-minute winner against Union Berlin on his debut, then goals at Napoli, at Braga and at home to Napoli — and was named the 2023/24 Champions League Young Player of the Season, also setting up Vinícius Júnior's goal in the final. He did not score against Manchester City in the quarter-finals; his only strike in that tie was in the penalty shootout.