Zlatan Ibrahimović Quiz

Zlatan Ibrahimović is football's great swaggering nomad — the striker who treated every dressing room in Europe as his own and left most of them with a title on the wall. This free Zlatan quiz runs the whole arc: the teenage Malmö FF forward who left for Ajax in 2001, the Juventus and Inter years where he became a Serie A monster, the single crackling season under Guardiola at Barcelona, the return to AC Milan, the four-year reign at PSG, the Manchester United gamble, the Hollywood swansong at LA Galaxy, and the improbable second act back at Milan that ended with him retiring in 2023 at 41. Thirty-four trophies, Sweden's all-time top scorer, and yet — famously — never a Champions League winner. If you can name the club that swapped Samuel Eto'o and a pile of cash to sign him in 2009, this quiz is for you.

The defining Zlatan moment needs no context. On 14 November 2012, in the very first match at Stockholm's new Friends Arena, he scored all four goals in a 4-2 win over England — and the last was an audacious back-pedalling bicycle kick from distance, over the stranded Joe Hart. It won the 2013 Puskás Award and remains the reference point for the audacious-goal argument. But the numbers around it are just as absurd: 62 goals in 122 caps for Sweden, twelve Guldbollen as national player of the year, and league titles in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and France. His Juventus title-winning years were later stripped in the Calciopoli scandal, so he simply moved to Inter and won three more on the pitch. He is one of the few to score in four consecutive decades.

Expect the full spread. Some of it is gentle — which Scandinavian club did he leave to join Ajax as a teenager? Some of it rewards the real watcher: the era-by-era manager clashes (that "you bought a Ferrari and drive it like a Fiat" jab at Guardiola), the record transfer fees that made him one of the most expensive players of his time, the free transfers that took him to Old Trafford and back to Milan, and the deep cuts — the exact scoreline the night he broke Sven Rydell's 82-year Sweden scoring record. Transfers and fees, records, the managers and eras, the iconic moments: it climbs from warm-up to genuinely hard.

Every question comes with a short explained answer, so you finish knowing more than when you started — the story behind the transfer, the date, the record. Play the sample set below free in your browser, no sign-up. And if it gets its hooks in you, the full Ball IQ app has 4,000+ questions plus daily challenges and multiplayer to test yourself against friends.