Football Records Quiz

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1. Celtic completed a second 'nine-in-a-row' run of league titles that ended in which year?

   • 2022
   • 2020
   • 2018
   • 2016
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   Answer: 2020

   The ninth title was confirmed in May 2020 when the season was curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

2. City's 2017-18 side earned a nickname for setting an English top-flight record. What were they called?

   • The Centurions
   • The Galacticos
   • The Immortals
   • The Invincibles
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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.

3. Who scored the most goals in a single Bundesliga season?

   • Lewandowski
   • Gerd Muller
   • Roland Wohlfarth
   • Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
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   Answer: Lewandowski

   Lewandowski scored 41 Bundesliga goals in 2020-21, breaking Gerd Muller's 49-year-old record of 40.

4. Beşiktaş's rivalry with which Black Sea club grew after it became the first club from outside Istanbul to win the Turkish league, in 1976?

   • Trabzonspor
   • Samsunspor
   • Giresunspor
   • Rizespor
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   Answer: Trabzonspor

   Trabzonspor's rise in the 1970s ended the Istanbul monopoly and created a lasting rivalry.

5. In which year did HSV win their first German national championship?

   • 1923
   • 1938
   • 1952
   • 1931
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   Answer: 1923

   HSV were crowned German champions for the first time in 1923.

6. Louis van Gaal's Ajax achieved what remarkable Eredivisie feat in the 1994-95 season?

   • Kept a clean sheet in every home game
   • Won every away match
   • Went the entire league season unbeaten
   • Scored 150 league goals
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   Answer: Went the entire league season unbeaten

   That great Ajax team won the 1994-95 Eredivisie without losing a single match.

7. Which player holds Leeds United's all-time appearance record, with 773 games?

   • Peter Lorimer
   • Paul Reaney
   • Billy Bremner
   • Jack Charlton
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   Answer: Jack Charlton

   Jack Charlton made a club-record 773 appearances for Leeds between 1953 and 1973.

8. Which player scored a record 50 La Liga goals in the 2011-12 season — still the highest single-season tally in a top-five European league?

   • Radamel Falcao
   • Cristiano Ronaldo
   • Lionel Messi
   • Luis Suárez
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   Answer: Lionel Messi

   His total of 73 goals in all competitions that season (including Copa del Rey and Champions League) is also the most a player has ever scored in a single European season.

9. Who is Italy's all-time leading international scorer?

   • Vieri
   • Del Piero
   • Totti
   • Riva
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   Answer: Riva

   Gigi Riva scored 35 goals in just 42 caps between 1965 and 1974, surpassing Giuseppe Meazza's record and helping Italy win Euro 1968.

10. Which club is the only one to have won the English top-flight title without losing a single game in the 19th century?

    • Preston North End
    • Liverpool
    • Sunderland
    • Aston Villa
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    Answer: Preston North End

    Preston North End were the original 'Invincibles', winning the inaugural 1888-89 Football League unbeaten and claiming the first English Double — a feat unmatched until Arsenal in 2003-04.

11. The 1971 Ibrox disaster, in which 66 fans died in a stairway crush, occurred during a match against which club?

    • Hearts
    • Aberdeen
    • Celtic
    • Dundee
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    Answer: Celtic

    The tragedy struck on Stairway 13 as fans left the Old Firm match on 2 January 1971.

12. Which player has won domestic league titles at PSG, Juventus and Bayern Munich?

    • Thiago
    • Kingsley Coman
    • Dani Alves
    • Rabiot
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    Answer: Kingsley Coman

    Coman won Ligue 1 with PSG, Serie A with Juventus (2014-15), and multiple Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich.

13. Didier Drogba scored how many goals in total for Chelsea across both his spells — making him the club's all-time top foreign scorer?

    • 172
    • 164
    • 157
    • 180
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    Answer: 164

    Drogba scored 164 goals in 381 appearances for Chelsea across two spells (2004-12, 2014-15). He's fourth on Chelsea's all-time list, first among foreigners.

14. Who founded Olympique de Marseille in 1899?

    • Marcel Leclerc
    • Gunnar Andersson
    • Bernard Tapie
    • René Dufaure de Montmirail
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    Answer: René Dufaure de Montmirail

    René Dufaure de Montmirail founded the club in 1899; its motto 'Droit Au But' dates from those early days.

15. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, played in goal for which English football club?

    • Reading
    • Brighton
    • Portsmouth
    • Watford
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    Answer: Portsmouth

    Conan Doyle played in goal for Portsmouth FC under the pseudonym AC Smith.

16. How many different nations have hosted the Women's World Cup as of 2026?

    • 7
    • 6
    • 8
    • 5
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    Answer: 8

    China, Sweden, USA, Germany, Canada, France, Australia, and New Zealand. The 2023 edition was co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

17. Who holds Chelsea's club record for goals in a single league season, netting 41 in 1960-61?

    • Peter Osgood
    • Kerry Dixon
    • Bobby Tambling
    • Jimmy Greaves
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    Answer: Jimmy Greaves

    The teenage prodigy plundered 41 First Division goals before leaving for AC Milan, a Chelsea single-season mark never beaten.

18. Juventus completed an unbeaten Serie A campaign in 2011-12 — the only side to go a full 38-game top-flight season without defeat in the modern format. How many of those games did they win?

    • 15
    • 23
    • 30
    • 38
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    Answer: 23

    They drew a lot of those unbeaten games — only just over half were wins, in Conte's first title back at the helm. Don't confuse the win total with the games they didn't lose.

19. Which City striker scored the goal at Southampton that took the 2017-18 side to their historic 100th point?

    • Leroy Sane
    • Sergio Aguero
    • Gabriel Jesus
    • Raheem Sterling
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    Answer: Gabriel Jesus

    Gabriel Jesus struck deep into stoppage time on the final day to complete the unprecedented century of points.

20. Leeds United's record competitive win, 10-0, came in 1969 against which visiting European side?

    • Rosenborg
    • Lyn Oslo
    • SK Brann
    • Vålerenga
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    Answer: Lyn Oslo

    Leeds thrashed Norwegian part-timers Lyn Oslo 10-0 in the 1969 European Cup.

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