Free Serie A trivia questions with explained answers.
Italian football has long been the home of tactical mastery and great defending, and this free Serie A quiz spans its drama and dynasties. Juventus's nine consecutive titles from 2012 to 2020, Inter ending that run in 2021, the two Milan giants, Roma and Lazio — and Napoli, where Diego Maradona became a god in the late 1980s and where the Scudetto finally returned in 2023.
It covers the eras that made the league. The great AC Milan side of Arrigo Sacchi and then Fabio Capello, unbeaten and untouchable. The defenders Italy produced — Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi, Alessandro Nesta, Fabio Cannavaro winning the Ballon d'Or. The Calciopoli scandal of 2006 that sent Juventus down. And the modern title races that brought the Scudetto back to Milan and to Naples.
Questions take in champions and managers, famous transfers and the moments that decided seasons — from easy openers about recent winners to hard ones about specific years, scandals and squads. It rewards anyone who's followed Calcio across the decades.
Every answer comes with a short explanation, so the quiz teaches as it tests. Play the free sample below, then the full Serie A bank in the Ball IQ app.
Ball IQ has 219 Serie A questions — 31 easy, 106 medium and 82 hard.
20 sample questions. Tap “Show answer” to reveal the answer and the story behind it.
Which Serie A club did Cristiano Ronaldo play for from 2018 to 2021?
Answer: Juventus
Ronaldo joined Juventus from Real Madrid in 2018 for around €100m, winning two Serie A titles before leaving for Manchester United in 2021.
Which legendary Italian striker was known as 'Il Divin Codino' (the Divine Ponytail)?
Answer: Roberto Baggio
Baggio's 1994 World Cup ended with a missed penalty in the final shootout against Brazil; he won the 1993 Ballon d'Or playing for Juventus.
Lautaro Martinez is the star striker for which Serie A club?
Answer: Inter
Lautaro joined Inter from Racing Club in 2018 and captained the side to the 2023–24 Serie A title, becoming the league's top scorer that season.
Which Italian club is known as 'I Bianconeri'?
Answer: Juventus
'I Bianconeri' means 'the black-and-whites', after Juventus's iconic black-and-white striped kit first adopted in 1903.
Which club did Antonio Conte manage to three consecutive Serie A titles between 2012 and 2014?
Answer: Juventus
Conte's Juventus won the 2011-12 (unbeaten), 2012-13 and 2013-14 Serie A titles, launching the club's run of nine consecutive Scudetti.
Napoli ended a 33-year wait for the Serie A title — their first since 1989-90 — in which year?
Answer: 2023
Napoli won 2022-23 under Luciano Spalletti (3rd Scudetto). They added a 4th in 2024-25 under Antonio Conte after Inter's interruption in 2023-24.
Which Italian club is known as 'The Old Lady'?
Answer: Juventus
Juventus are nicknamed 'La Vecchia Signora' (The Old Lady), a term of affection that emerged among fans in the 1930s for Italy's most successful club.
What shirt number did Cristiano Ronaldo wear at Juventus (2018-2021)?
Answer: 7
Ronaldo wore #7 at Juventus too, his iconic 'CR7' number. Juan Cuadrado vacated the #7 for Ronaldo on his arrival. Ronaldo also wore #7 at Man Utd and Al Nassr.
AC Milan's iconic number 6 shirt was associated with which legendary defender?
Answer: Baresi
Franco Baresi spent his entire 20-year career at Milan and captained the club for 15 seasons; they retired his number 6 shirt when he left in 1997 — the first retired number in Italian football.
AC Milan and Inter Milan share which famous stadium?
Answer: San Siro
San Siro — officially the Giuseppe Meazza — has hosted both clubs since 1947.
Napoli won their first ever Serie A title in which year — with Maradona in the team?
Answer: 1987
Napoli sealed their first-ever Scudetto with a 1-1 draw against Fiorentina at the San Paolo in 1986-87, 61 years after the club's founding, with Maradona as captain.
Which Serie A striker's constant offside-testing movements led to a legendary saying among Italian defenders?
Answer: Filippo Inzaghi
Inzaghi's knack for living on the offside line prompted Sir Alex Ferguson's famous quip that he 'must have been born offside'.
Which Serie A club plays the Derby della Mole against Torino?
Answer: Juventus
The Derby della Mole between Juventus and Torino is named after Turin's Mole Antonelliana landmark and is the oldest continuously played same-city derby in Italian football, first contested in 1907.
The Supercoppa Italiana is contested between which two clubs each year?
Answer: The league champion and cup winner
Italy's season-opening Supercoppa Italiana pits the reigning Serie A champion against the Coppa Italia winner; it began in 1988, with Milan beating Sampdoria in the first edition.
Inter Milan were founded in 1908 by players who left which club — because they wanted more foreign players?
Answer: AC Milan
A breakaway faction left AC Milan in 1908 wanting to field foreign players, founding Internazionale — the origin of the Derby della Madonnina between the two Milan clubs.
Roberto Mancini won Serie A with which Italian club before becoming a successful manager?
Answer: Sampdoria
Mancini's strike partnership with Gianluca Vialli, under Vujadin Boskov, fired Sampdoria to their only Serie A title in 1990-91.
Juventus have had Serie A titles stripped for which reason in their history?
Answer: Match fixing
The 2006 'Calciopoli' scandal stripped Juventus of their 2004-05 and 2005-06 Serie A titles and relegated them to Serie B.
Who scored the winning goal for AC Milan in the 2007 Champions League final against Liverpool?
Answer: Inzaghi
Filippo Inzaghi scored both goals as Milan beat Liverpool 2-1 in Athens, avenging the 2005 Istanbul final loss; the first goal deflected in off his arm from Pirlo's free-kick.
The term 'Derby d'Italia' was coined by journalist Gianni Brera to describe matches between which two clubs?
Answer: Juventus and Inter
Brera chose these two because, at the time he named it in the 1960s, they were the only sides never to have been relegated from the top flight.
Ciro Immobile won the 2019-20 European Golden Shoe outright with 36 Serie A goals — beating which Bayern Munich striker into second place?
Answer: Lewandowski
The Polish striker finished the Bundesliga season with 34 goals. Immobile also beat Ronaldo (31 Serie A goals) and Messi (25 La Liga goals) to claim the award.