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An Atalanta quiz on the 1963 Coppa Italia, Gasperini's nine seasons, Lookman's hat-trick in Dublin and the strikers Bergamo sold to Juventus.
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easy
Atalanta sold which striker to Manchester United in the summer of 2023?
WhyHøjlund had joined from Sturm Graz a year earlier and left for a fee reported at around £72m after a single Serie A season. -
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Atalanta play their home matches in which northern Italian city?
WhyAtalanta are Bergamo's club through and through: the stadium sits in the Borgo Santa Caterina district and the famous academy is at Zingonia, just outside the city. -
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Atalanta won their first major trophy by beating which club 3-1 in the 1963 Coppa Italia final?
WhyAngelo Domenghini scored a hat-trick at San Siro. The celebrations were muted — Bergamo-born Pope John XXIII died the following day. -
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Atalanta sold which midfielder to Juventus in August 2024?
WhyKoopmeiners had arrived from AZ in 2021 and left for a guaranteed fee of around €51m plus bonuses — one of the biggest sales in Atalanta's history. -
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Atalanta's 1987-88 Cup Winners' Cup run began with a shock 2-1 defeat away to which Welsh club, then playing in English non-league football?
WhyMerthyr, Welsh Cup holders, won 2-1 at Penydarren Park in September 1987; Atalanta needed a 2-0 win in Bergamo to scrape through 3-2 on aggregate and then went all the way to the semi-finals. -
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As of 2026, Atalanta's most recent relegation from Serie A came at the end of which season?
WhyAtalanta finished 18th in 2009-10 and went down, but won Serie B at the first attempt and have been a top-flight club ever since — the end of decades of yo-yoing. -
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Josip Iličić scored four goals in a single Champions League knockout match for Atalanta in March 2020. Who were the opponents?
WhyAtalanta won 4-3 at an empty Mestalla for an 8-4 aggregate victory; Iličić became the first player to score four in an away Champions League knockout tie. -
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Atalanta scored 98 Serie A goals in 2019-20 without a single player reaching 20 in the league. Which two shared the club's league top-scorer spot on 18 each?
WhyMuriel matched Zapata's 18 despite starting only 10 league games; with Iličić also on 15, Atalanta were the first Italian side since Juventus in 1951-52 to have three players score 15 or more. -
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Atalanta led 1-0 in the 2020 Champions League quarter-final before conceding twice in the closing minutes. Which club knocked them out?
WhyMario Pašalić had put Atalanta ahead in Lisbon before Marquinhos and Eric Choupo-Moting struck at the death for PSG. -
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Who scored twice as Atalanta won 3-0 away to Liverpool in the 2024 Europa League quarter-final first leg?
WhyScamacca struck just before half-time and again on the hour at Anfield, and Pašalić added a late third; Liverpool won the return leg 1-0 but went out 3-1 on aggregate. -
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In 1987-88 Atalanta reached the Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals while playing in Serie B. Which Belgian club knocked them out and went on to win the trophy?
WhyMechelen won both legs 2-1 and then beat Ajax in the final. Atalanta were in the competition as Coppa Italia runners-up, because winners Napoli had done the double and entered the European Cup. -
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Atalanta qualified for the Champions League for the first time by finishing third in which Serie A season?
WhyA final-day comeback win over Sassuolo in May 2019 sealed third place on 69 points, edging out Inter and Milan. -
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Who captained Atalanta to the 2010-11 Serie B title, only to be banned from football months later for match-fixing?
WhyDoni scored 12 goals from midfield as Atalanta went straight back up as champions, then received a three-and-a-half-year ban in August 2011 in the Scommessopoli betting scandal. -
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Which winger came through Atalanta's youth system and was sold to Juventus in January 2020 for €35m while on loan at Parma?
WhySweden-raised Kulusevski was developed by Atalanta, broke through on loan at Parma, and was sold to Juventus mid-season while staying at Parma until June. -
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Gian Piero Gasperini was appointed Atalanta coach in June 2016. Which club had he spent the previous three seasons managing?
WhyGasperini left Genoa, where he was in his second spell from 2013 to 2016, to take charge of an Atalanta side that had just finished 13th. -
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Which Argentina international captained Atalanta before a bust-up with Gasperini led to his move to Sevilla in January 2021?
WhyThe row reportedly began at half-time of a Champions League tie with Midtjylland on 1 December 2020, when he refused to switch to the right flank. Sevilla paid around €5m plus add-ons weeks later. -
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Claudio Caniggia was an Atalanta player when he scored the goal that knocked Brazil out of the 1990 World Cup. Which Serie A club had Atalanta signed him from the year before?
WhyCaniggia left River Plate for Verona in 1988 and moved to Bergamo in 1989, scoring 26 goals in 85 league games across three years at Atalanta. -
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Which Atalanta forward's 25 goals made him Serie A's top scorer in 2024-25?
WhyRetegui arrived in 2024 and finished six clear of Moise Kean, becoming only the second Atalanta player to win the capocannoniere. -
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Atalanta's ground, opened in 1928 and long known as the Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia, took the name of which sponsor in 2019?
WhyGewiss, an electrical components firm from the Bergamo area, agreed the naming-rights deal that took effect on 1 July 2019, as the club began rebuilding the old ground stand by stand; the Gewiss Stadium name ran until 2025. -
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Atalanta lost their opening three group games in the 2019-20 Champions League and still reached the last 16. Which club did they beat 3-0 away in the final group match to go through?
WhyAfter defeats to Dinamo Zagreb, Shakhtar and Manchester City, Atalanta took seven points from the last three games and won in Kharkiv to finish second. -
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Which coach guided Atalanta to the Serie B title in both 2005-06 and 2010-11?
WhyColantuono had more than one spell in Bergamo and won promotion as champions in each of those seasons — the second time at the first attempt after relegation. -
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Where did Atalanta play their home Champions League matches during their debut 2019-20 campaign?
WhyTheir Bergamo ground was in the middle of a major redevelopment, so Atalanta asked Inter and Milan for the use of San Siro. The work was finished in time for them to host European nights in Bergamo from 2020-21. -
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Which former Atalanta player turned retail entrepreneur was club president from 1990 to 1994 and returned in 2010 to launch its modern era?
WhyPercassi bought the club back in June 2010, weeks after relegation to Serie B, and rebuilt it around the Zingonia academy and a self-sustaining transfer model. -
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Which winger came through Atalanta's youth system in his native Bergamo province and joined Milan in 1986, going on to win the European Cup there?
WhyBorn in Cisano Bergamasco, Donadoni debuted for Atalanta in 1982 and made 96 league appearances before Milan signed him — a year before Arrigo Sacchi arrived to build his great side. -
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Atalanta sold their reigning Serie A top scorer to Juventus in 1997. Which striker had they sold to Juventus the previous summer, after one season in Bergamo?
WhyVieri joined Atalanta from Venezia in 1995, moved to Juventus in July 1996 and won the Scudetto there before leaving for Atletico Madrid. -
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In February 2022 the Percassi family sold a large stake in Atalanta to a group led by which American investor?
WhyPagliuca, a Bain Capital co-chairman and Boston Celtics co-owner, led the group that took 55%; the Percassi family kept 45% and stayed the largest single shareholder, with Pagliuca named co-chairman. -
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Which striker finished as Serie A's top scorer in 1996-97 with 24 goals, in what proved to be his only season at Atalanta?
WhyInzaghi arrived from Parma and won the Capocannoniere in his single Bergamo campaign, edging Vincenzo Montella, before Juventus signed him that summer. -
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After leaving Atalanta in 2025, Gian Piero Gasperini took over at which Serie A club?
WhyHe replaced the retiring Claudio Ranieri in the Roma dugout, while Ivan Jurić was appointed in Bergamo. -
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Who scored a hat-trick as Atalanta beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 to win the 2024 Europa League final?
WhyLookman's three goals in Dublin ended Leverkusen's unbeaten season and gave Atalanta only their second major trophy, more than 60 years after the first. -
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Atalanta's nickname 'La Dea' translates into English as what?
WhyThe club takes its name from Atalanta, the fleet-footed huntress of Greek myth, whose profile appears on the crest — Bergamo fans give her a rank above mortal. -
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Which nickname, taken from their striped shirts, do Atalanta share with Inter?
WhyNerazzurri simply means 'the black-and-blues'. Atalanta are also called the Orobici, after the ancient Orobii people of the Bergamo hills. -
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Atalanta's fiercest rivalry, the Derby Lombardo, is contested with which neighbouring club?
WhyBergamo and Brescia sit around 50km apart and their mutual dislike long predates football — a textbook case of Italian campanilismo that has produced some of Serie A's most volatile scenes. -
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In which year was Atalanta founded?
WhyThe club was formed on 17 October 1907 by students of Bergamo's Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi; a 1920 merger with fellow Bergamo side Bergamasca added the 'Bergamasca' to the name that survives today as Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio.
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About the Atalanta quiz
Atalanta are Bergamo and Bergamo is Atalanta. The club was formed on 17 October 1907 by students of the city's Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi, named after the fleet-footed huntress of Greek myth whose profile still sits on the crest, and became Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio after a 1920 merger with fellow Bergamo side Bergamasca. To supporters she is La Dea, the Goddess — a rank above mortal. Everyone else gets a choice: Nerazzurri, the black-and-blues, taken from the striped shirts and shared with Inter, or Orobici, after the ancient Orobii people of the Bergamo hills. The ground stands in the Borgo Santa Caterina district, the academy is out at Zingonia, and the fixture that matters most is the Derby Lombardo against Brescia, around 50km down the road — campanilismo of the purest Italian kind, and older than the football.
The first major trophy took until 1963, when Angelo Domenghini scored a hat-trick at San Siro to beat Torino 3-1 in the Coppa Italia final; the celebrations were muted, because Bergamo-born Pope John XXIII died the following day. Then came a run nobody has matched since: in 1987-88 Atalanta reached the Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals while playing in Serie B, in the competition only as Coppa Italia runners-up after winners Napoli did the double. It started with a 2-1 defeat away to Merthyr Tydfil, the Welsh Cup holders, at Penydarren Park, and ended against KV Mechelen, who beat Ajax in the final. Claudio Caniggia signed from Hellas Verona in 1989 and was an Atalanta player when he knocked Brazil out of the 1990 World Cup. Mostly, though, these were yo-yo years, and they ended badly: 18th and relegated in 2009-10.
What followed reset the club. Antonio Percassi — a former Atalanta player turned retail entrepreneur, and president once before from 1990 to 1994 — bought the club back in June 2010, weeks after that relegation, and rebuilt it around Zingonia and a self-sustaining transfer model. Stefano Colantuono, who had already won Serie B in 2005-06, took them straight back up as champions in 2010-11 with captain Cristiano Doni scoring 12 from midfield, months before Doni's three-and-a-half-year ban in the Scommessopoli betting scandal. Then Gian Piero Gasperini arrived in June 2016 from Genoa, inheriting a side that had finished 13th and nearly losing the job after a poor start. He stayed nine seasons. Third place in 2018-19, sealed by a final-day comeback against Sassuolo on 69 points, brought a first Champions League campaign — played at San Siro while the Bergamo ground was rebuilt, and salvaged after three straight group defeats by a 3-0 win away to Shakhtar Donetsk in Kharkiv.
The peaks kept coming. Josip Ilicic scored four at an empty Mestalla in March 2020 as Valencia were beaten 4-3 for an 8-4 aggregate win; a 98-goal league season that year had no 20-goal striker in it, just Duvan Zapata and Luis Muriel on 18 apiece and Ilicic on 15. PSG ended it in Lisbon with two goals in the closing minutes after Mario Pasalic had put Atalanta ahead. Four years later Gianluca Scamacca scored twice in a 3-0 win at Anfield, and Ademola Lookman's hat-trick in Dublin beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 to end their 51-match unbeaten run and win the Europa League. All the while Bergamo kept selling: Christian Vieri and Filippo Inzaghi to Juventus in the 1990s, Dejan Kulusevski and Teun Koopmeiners to Juventus since, Rasmus Hojlund to Manchester United. Gasperini left for Roma in 2025 and Ivan Juric took over. Now find out how much of it you actually know.
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