Free Manchester City trivia questions with explained answers.
Manchester City are the club that has lived both extremes of English football. This free Manchester City quiz spans the whole arc — from the Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison side that won the league in 1968, through the wilderness years that bottomed out in English football's third tier in 1998-99, to the Abu Dhabi takeover of 2008 and the Guardiola dynasty that redefined how the game is played in England. For decades City were Manchester's fallible, much-loved underdogs; now they are one of the defining superpowers of the modern game. The quiz covers both lives, because a real City fan knows Shaun Goater as well as they know Erling Haaland.
The moments quiz themselves. Sergio Agüero's 93:20 goal against QPR on the final day of 2011-12, winning City a first league title in 44 years with virtually the last kick of the season. The Centurions of 2017-18, the first side in English top-flight history to reach 100 points. The 2023 treble, sealed by Rodri's goal against Inter in Istanbul, and the four straight Premier League titles from 2021 to 2024 — something no English top-flight club had ever managed. And bookending it all, Pep Guardiola's farewell in the summer of 2026, walking away after a decade and twenty trophies as the most successful manager in the club's history.
Expect questions on transfers, records, managers and cult heroes alike. The easy end asks who scored at 93:20; the hard end wants Paul Dickov's 95th-minute Wembley equaliser against Gillingham in 1999, Kevin De Bruyne's decade of assists before his 2025 move to Napoli, and Nico O'Reilly's brace that beat Arsenal in the 2026 League Cup final. There are questions on Sergio Agüero's club-record 260 goals, Rodri becoming City's first Ballon d'Or winner in 2024, Erling Haaland's 36-goal debut season, and the eighth FA Cup, won 1-0 against Chelsea in May 2026 at the end of a fourth consecutive final. Difficulty is graded easy to hard, so you can settle in on the famous stuff before the deep cuts arrive.
Every question comes with a short explained answer — miss one and you still leave with the detail that makes it stick, whether that's the scoreline at Wembley in 1999 or the minute Agüero swept the ball past Paddy Kenny. Play the sample set below for free, straight in your browser with no sign-up. When you want the full Manchester City quiz — plus daily challenges, streaks and multiplayer — it's waiting in the Ball IQ app.
Ball IQ has 25 Manchester City questions — 3 easy, 12 medium and 10 hard.
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Which goalkeeper, signed by Pep Guardiola, became renowned for his pinpoint long-range passing and even scored from his own half?
Answer: Ederson
The Brazilian Ederson's distribution turned him into a deep playmaker after Guardiola replaced Joe Hart with him in 2016; he served as City's No.1 until leaving for Fenerbahce in 2025.
In the 2023 Champions League final, who scored the only goal as City beat Inter Milan to complete the Treble?
Answer: Rodri
Rodri's calm side-foot in the 68th minute delivered City's first European Cup and made them only the second English men's club to win the Treble.
Kevin De Bruyne joined City in 2015 for what was then a club-record fee. Which club did he sign from?
Answer: VfL Wolfsburg
After being let go by Chelsea, De Bruyne rebuilt his reputation in the Bundesliga and City paid a then-record fee to bring him from Wolfsburg, where he'd been named the league's player of the season.
City's 2017-18 side earned a nickname for setting an English top-flight record. What were they called?
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.
Yaya Toure, a midfield colossus of City's first title era, joined the club in 2010 from which side?
Answer: Barcelona
Toure arrived from Barcelona and became a goalscoring powerhouse, later sparking a saga over forgotten birthday-cake celebrations in 2014.
City's home before the Etihad was Maine Road. For how long was it the club's home ground?
Answer: About 80 years
City played at Maine Road from 1923 to 2003, an 80-year stay, before moving to the City of Manchester Stadium built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Which Manchester City goalkeeper famously played the final 17 minutes of the 1956 FA Cup final win with a broken neck?
Answer: Bert Trautmann
A former German paratrooper and WWII prisoner of war, Trautmann's 1949 signing sparked a 20,000-strong protest before he became a club legend; an X-ray three days after the final revealed the cracked vertebrae.
City fans adopted their bouncing, back-to-the-pitch 'Poznan' celebration after a 2010 European tie against which club?
Answer: Lech Poznan
City fans first copied the dance during a 3-1 Europa League win over the Polish side in October 2010 and named it in homage to the originators, whose fans had used it for years.
City won their first major European trophy back in 1970. Which competition was it?
Answer: European Cup Winners' Cup
Under Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison, City beat Gornik Zabrze in the final, capping a golden era that also brought the 1968 league title and 1969 FA Cup.
Which City striker scored the goal at Southampton that took the 2017-18 side to their historic 100th point?
Answer: Gabriel Jesus
Gabriel Jesus struck deep into stoppage time on the final day to complete the unprecedented century of points.
Mike Summerbee, a 1960s great, formed a famous attacking trio with Colin Bell and which other player?
Answer: Francis Lee
The 'Bell-Lee-Summerbee' trio drove City's late-60s success; Francis Lee was the penalty-winning forward known for his powerful running.
Dennis Tueart scored a spectacular winner in the 1976 League Cup final, City's last major trophy before a long drought. What kind of goal was it?
Answer: An overhead bicycle kick
Tueart's acrobatic overhead kick beat Newcastle 2-1 at Wembley; it was City's last major silverware until the 2011 FA Cup ended a 35-year wait.
Vincent Kompany scored a thunderous long-range winner against Leicester in 2019 that all but sealed a title. What was notable about that strike?
Answer: It was a defender shooting from 25+ yards against teammates' advice
The captain ignored teammates telling him not to shoot and unleashed an unstoppable effort, later joking it was the best decision he never should have made.
Before the 2011-12 triumph, when had City last won the English top-flight league title?
Answer: 1968
The 1967-68 title, sealed by a 4-3 win at Newcastle, was their last before Aguero's QPR goal ended a 44-year wait for the championship.
Pep Guardiola won his first trophy at City in February 2018. Which one was it?
Answer: League Cup
His first silverware came in the EFL Cup, a 3-0 win over Arsenal, before the Centurions sealed the league title later that spring.