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English Football Quiz I
- England played in the world's first ever international football match in 1872 which finished in a 0–0 draw with which country?
- Sir Bobby Robson played for which two English clubs?
- As of 2022, how many English clubs have NEVER been relegated from the Premier League since its creation in 1992?
- In which year did English football introduce the 'three points' for a win?
- Who has scored the most hat-tricks for England, with six?
- Who spent the 2013/14 season on loan with Notts County and is said to almost single-handedly kept them in League One?
- Which Championship club's home match to Sheffield United on 13 September 2008 generated much attention as it was approaching a year since their last league win?
- Which player has won the FA Cup more times than any other player in history?
- Gordon Banks played most of his career for which club?
- A statue of Dixie Dean was unveiled outside which ground in May 2001?
- Which FA Cup winners were the first to be relegated in the same season as they won the Cup?
- Who in 1986 became the first Englishman to be sent off at the World Cup Finals? And which African country was he playing against? The match ended in a 0-0 draw.
- Which player, who became a well known name in management, scored on his 19th birthday for Manchester United in their win over Benfica in the 1968 European Cup Final?
- Which manager guided Coventry to the old First Division for the first time in their history in 1967?
- Name the 19-year-old goalkeeper fast-tracked to the England squad for Euro 2012?
- In which city was the captain of the England national football team detained for four days in May 1970 after wrongly being accused of stealing a bracelet from a jewellery shop?
- Can you name the only professional English football ground not found on the mainland of Great Britain?
Answers
- Scotland
- Fulham and West Bromwich Albion
- Six (Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham)
- 1981
- Jimmy Greaves
- Jack Grealish
- Derby County
- Ashley Cole (seven times)
- Leicester City
- Goodison Park (Everton)
- Wigan Athletic (2013)
- Ray Wilkins. Morocco.
- Brian Kidd
- Jimmy Hill
- Jack Butland
- Bogota (Colombia) (The captain was Bobby Moore.)
- Fratton Park (Portsmouth F.C. - it's on Portsea Island)
English Football Quiz II
- Formed in 1854, which club is the first English sports club to use the word 'United' in its name?
- Who made 433 Football League appearances, 40 FA Cup appearances and scored a total of 210 goals for Preston North End?
- Peter Shilton played his 1000th career league game for which club?
- Which former player was given the middle name 'Winston' in honour of Winston Churchill?
- Ashton Gate stadium is the home of which club?
- Who became the first overseas manager to win the FA Cup?
- Which Northumberland football club became known for its 1977–78 FA Cup run?
- When Bobby Charlton became manager of Preston North End in 1973 which former World Cup winning teammate did he sign as player-coach?
- As of 2022, who is England's youngest-ever senior international football player?
- Who remains the last player to be capped by England from outside the top two tiers of English football?
- Who said: "Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!"?
- In 2008, which club was relegated to the third tier of English football for the first time in their 124-year history?
- Which English player was the first footballer in the world to earn 100 international caps?
- Who in 2008 said: "I am a big follower of the history of the game and Tottenham have been a great club over the years. I followed Tottenham, I trained there as an 11-year-old, 12-year-old so I know the history of the club. It is a big, big club."?
- Which football stadium is the eighth largest football stadium in England?
- Who said: "You win nothing with kids", after Manchester United had been beaten at Villa Park on opening day of the 95/96 season?
- Which club that moved from the Old Showground to Glanford Park in 1998, did Ray Clemence play for 48 times at the start of his career?
- Which club is owned by Project 92 Limited?
Answers
- Sheffield United
- Tom Finney
- Leyton Orient
- Gary Winston Lineker
- Bristol City
- Ruud Gullit
- Blyth Spartans
- Nobby Stiles
- Theo Walcott (17 years and 75 days)
- Steve Bull (at the time he was still technically a (then) Third Division player)
- Paul Gascoigne
- Leicester City
- Billy Wright
- Harry Redknapp/li>
- St James' Park (Newcastle)
- Alan Hansen
- Scunthorpe United
- Salford City F.C. (owned by former Manchester United players once known collectively as the Class of '92)
English Football Trivia III
- In which town was Brian Clough born in 1935?
- Losing to which football club in January 1992 did George Graham describe as his "lowest moment in football."?
- Which club did Alan Shearer make his professional debut for in March 1988?
- From 2018 to 2020, Wayne Rooney played for an American professional soccer club based in which city?
- Which English footballer was twice winner of the Ballon d'Or?
- Which player scored twice for Team GB at London 2012, played at Trabzonspor in 2019-20, and signed for Perth Glory in 2021?
- Peterborough United secured a place in the Championship after which manager led them to consecutive promotions in 2007–08 and 2008–09?
- With two World Cup appearances, who spent his entire club career with Leeds United betweeen 1950 and 1973?
- In 1996 David Beckham scored a spectacular halfway line goal in a match against which team? And who was the unfortunate keeper?
- Name the only club to lose by nine goals twice in the Premier League?
- Which club have a long-standing rivalry with Luton Town?
- As of 2022, who has managed the most teams in the Premier League?
- Who, with two European Cup winners medals, has been described by the Birmingham Mail as "perhaps the greatest goalkeeper in Aston Villa's history"?
- With a joint-record, how many consecutive top-flight league wins did Manchester City achieve in 2017, and then Liverpool from October 2019 to February 2020?
- Name the only player to have played for England without having previously lived in the United Kingdom?
- Statistically, which club are the most successful in English women's football?
- Who sold her husband Paul Peschisolido to Stoke for four hundred thousand pounds?
- Which football club play at Gigg Lane?
- Whose ashes were buried under the penalty spot at the Shed End of Stamford Bridge in a memorial service in October 2006?
- The last of which player's 34 caps was in the infamous defeat by Iceland at Euro 2016?
Answers
- Middlesbrough
- Wrexham (when they knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup in 1994)
- Southampton
- Washington, D.C. (D.C. United)
- Kevin Keegan
- Daniel Sturridge
- Darren Ferguson
- Jack Charlton
- Wimbledon. Neil Sullivan was the goalkeeper.
- Southampton
- Watford
- Sam Allardyce (8 different clubs)
- Jimmy Rimmer
- 18 consecutive wins
- Owen Hargreaves
- Arsenal
- Karren Brady (director at Birmingham City)
- Bury F.C.
- Peter Osgood's
- Jack Wilshere
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