Ball IQEngland Football Quiz
Test your England football knowledge: 1966 World Cup glory, Euro final heartbreaks, Kane and the Three Lions. Explained answers, play free in your browser.
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What the England quiz covers
Every question is written and checked by football fans, across the topics that decide a real England expert:
Career & clubs
Every club England played for and the moves in between.
Trophies & honours
Leagues, cups and the biggest nights of the career.
Goals & records
The milestones, the tallies and the records set.
International
The national-team story — tournaments, caps and glory.
Iconic moments
The goals and games fans will never forget.
Awards
Ballon d'Ors, Golden Boots and individual honours.
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Which English club is nicknamed 'The Robins' and features a robin bird on its crest?
- Forest
- Bristol City
- Norwich
- Crystal Palace
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Answer: Bristol City
Bristol City are 'The Robins'; a robin has featured on their badge (1976-1994 and again from 2019). Forest are the Tricky Trees, Norwich the Canaries, Palace the Eagles.
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City's 2017-18 side earned a nickname for setting an English top-flight record. What were they called?
- The Invincibles
- The Centurions
- The Galacticos
- The Immortals
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Answer: The Centurions
They became the only team to reach 100 points in a Premier League season, securing the milestone with a stoppage-time winner at Southampton on the final day.
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Which nation did England famously lose to 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup group stage?
- Brazil
- Italy
- Uruguay
- USA
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Answer: USA
The USA's shock win over England in Belo Horizonte is one of the biggest World Cup upsets ever.
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Which England striker won the Golden Boot as the top scorer at Euro 96 with 5 goals?
- Gary Lineker
- Alan Shearer
- Rooney
- Kane
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Answer: Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer scored 5 goals at Euro 96 to finish as the tournament's top scorer and win the Golden Boot.
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Which former Leeds United boss took charge of England's national team in 1974 — only to leave controversially in 1977 for a UAE role?
- Alf Ramsey
- Don Revie
- Ron Greenwood
- Bobby Robson
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Answer: Don Revie
Revie won two league titles with Leeds before succeeding Alf Ramsey as England manager.
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Celtic sold Kieran Tierney in 2019 to which English club?
- Chelsea
- Arsenal
- Tottenham
- Everton
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Answer: Arsenal
The left-back's roughly £25m move to Arsenal set a record fee received by a Scottish club.
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At the 1962 World Cup, which England player caught a stray dog that had run onto the pitch during their match against Brazil?
- Bobby Charlton
- Jimmy Greaves
- Bobby Moore
- Gordon Banks
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Answer: Jimmy Greaves
The dog then urinated on his shirt. Brazilian player Garrincha reportedly took the dog home as a pet.
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Has any manager ever held both the Brazil and England national team head coach jobs?
- Yes — Carlos Alberto Parreira
- Yes — Ron Greenwood
- No one has
- Yes — Bobby Robson
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Answer: No one has
England has appointed non-English managers including Sven-Göran Eriksson, Fabio Capello and Thomas Tuchel — none of whom has managed Brazil.
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Which manager won Chelsea's first-ever league title in 1955 — and was the first man to win the English top flight as both a player and a manager?
- Ted Drake
- Tommy Docherty
- Dave Sexton
- Vic Buckingham
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Answer: Ted Drake
He'd won titles as a player with Arsenal; at Chelsea he axed the 'Pensioner' crest and nickname, ushering in 'The Blues'.
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England and Spain drew 0-0 in their Euro 1996 quarter-final at Wembley — England won on penalties after which Spain player missed the crucial spot-kick?
- Hierro
- Nadal
- Amor
- Belsué
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Answer: Nadal
Fernando Hierro hit the bar first, but Miguel Nadal's decisive miss — saved by Seaman — sent England through 4-2. Stuart Pearce converted to exorcise his 1990 demons.
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About the England quiz
England gave the world football — the first international, the oldest laws of the game, the sport's deepest club culture — yet the national team's story is one long ache for a second act. The Three Lions have lifted the World Cup exactly once, on home soil in 1966, and have spent the six decades since chasing that summer down. There have been golden generations that flattered and faded, penalty shootouts that broke a nation's heart, and, lately, a fearless young side that has dragged England back to the sport's biggest stages. It is a history measured in "so close": semi-finals lost on spot-kicks, finals surrendered late, a country that sings "it's coming home" and means it every single time. This quiz walks that whole arc, from Wembley 1966 to a squad chasing history at the 2026 World Cup.
The triumph is 1966, and it still defines them. On 30 July at Wembley, England beat West Germany 4-2 after extra time, with Geoff Hurst becoming the only man to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final — a feat unmatched until Kylian Mbappé did it in 2022 — and captain Bobby Moore lifting the Jules Rimet Trophy. That side, built around Moore, Bobby Charlton and goalkeeper Gordon Banks, remains the source of England's only major trophy. The nearest they have come since is a pair of European Championship finals: runners-up to Italy on penalties at Wembley in the Euro 2020 final (played in July 2021), then beaten 2-1 by Spain in Berlin in 2024, Cole Palmer's equaliser undone by Mikel Oyarzabal's late winner. Two finals, two defeats — the wait for a second trophy goes on.
Expect the full spread. Harry Kane is the modern colossus — England's all-time leading scorer with more than 80 goals, past Wayne Rooney's 53 and Bobby Charlton's 49, and now the country's record World Cup marksman too. Peter Shilton holds the appearance record with 125 caps. But the quiz digs into the pain as much as the glory: Italia '90 and the tears of Turin, Gareth Southgate's decisive miss when England hosted Euro '96, and the "Golden Generation" of Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney who never got past a quarter-final. There is the 2018 run to the semis, Kane's Golden Boot, and the current core — Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka, Phil Foden, Declan Rice and Cole Palmer — now managed by Thomas Tuchel after Southgate's two-final tenure. Icons, near-misses and records all get their turn.
Every question comes with a short, explained answer, so you finish each round knowing why 1966 still stands alone, how the penalty ghosts of Turin, Wembley and Berlin piled up, and exactly where this young generation fits in the story. With the 2026 World Cup now underway across the United States, Canada and Mexico — and England once again among the contenders — there has never been a sharper time to test how well you really know the Three Lions. Play the sample set below free in your browser: no sign-up, no download, just tap and go. And when you want more — 4,000+ questions spanning the World Cup, the Premier League and European football, plus a daily football word game and live multiplayer matches against your mates — it's all waiting in the free Ball IQ app.