quizballs 17 - football
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Please note: the answer to question 68 was corrected (Thanks W Rich)
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(soccer) quiz questions for trivia quizzes and pub quizzes
Note that 'football' in this quiz means 'soccer'. Some of these
questions contain more than one element in the answers, so quizmasters and
facilitators should decide before-hand how to award points or half-points for
part-correct answers.
This quiz is mainly based on English football facts and England World
Cup facts; my apologies to folk from other nations. I'm happy to publish
quizzes featuring other sports and other nations if anyone would like to
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Not all of these questions are about the World Cup.
Where the word captain is used it refers to captaincy of the senior team
(not under-21's or youth teams etc).
Where was the 1986 World Cup held?
Who was the last player to captain England before David Beckham?
What football club did Gordon Banks play for when he won his 1966
World Cup medal?
Fill in the missing name in this sequence of England managers:
Ramsey, Mercer, Revie, ? , Robson.
Which of these players never scored a hat-trick for England: Bobby
Charlton, Gary Lineker, Paul Scholes, Luther Blissett, Teddy Sheringham, Alan
Shearer?
England coaches Sammy Lee and Ray Clemence played together at which
club?
How many places were allocated to African teams for the 2006 World
Cup?
What did all these players win between 1989 and 1997: Paul Merson,
Matt Le Tissier, Lee Sharpe, Ryan Giggs, Andy Cole, Robbie Fowler and David
Beckham?
Aside from goalkeepers, which two England captains since 1966 never
scored their country?
Which of these players never captained England's senior team: Peter
Beardsley, Paul Ince, David Seaman, Bobby Charlton, Gordon Banks?
Who was England's football manager in the 1970 World Cup?
How many players in England's 2006 World Cup squad were also in the
1998 squad? And to ask a tougher question, name them..)
Which manager first appointed David Beckham as England captain?
Who was the first player to play for England who had not been born
when England won the world cup in 1966?
What was the score after extra time before England lost on penalties
to Portugal in the quarter final of the European Championship in June 2004?
In what World Cup did the England goals by Mariner, Robson and
Francis feature in games against France, Czechoslovakia and Kuwait?
Who was England's first national team manager?
Whose injury made way for Geoff Hurst in England's 1966 World Cup
team?
Who was the first defender to captain England after Bobby Moore?
What football club did Bobby Charlton play for when he won his 1966
World Cup medal?
Who was the first £100,000 football transfer?
What decade was the white ball legalised in football?
What did these players all win between 1963 and 1968: Lev Yashin,
Dennis Law, Eusebio, Bobby Charlton, Florian Albert and George Best?
Who was the first football transfer over £100,000 between
English clubs?
Where and when were the three World Cup tournaments that England
failed to qualify for after 1966?
Where was the 1962 World Cup held?
Who were England's full backs in the 1966 World Cup Final?
Who was the first £1m football transfer between English clubs?
What football club did Bobby Moore play for when he won his 1966
World Cup medal?
Bobby Moore and Billy Wright share the record for the number of games
as England captain with 90 each. At the start of the 2006 World Cup which
player captained England the most times aside from Moore and Wright?
Who was the first £2m football transfer between English
clubs?
What height and width is a football goal?
What football club did Jackie Charlton play for when he won his 1966
World Cup medal?
Who, according to FIFA regulations, was responsible for supplying the
footballs for the 2006 World Cup qualifying stage games?
In what decade was England's first national team manager appointed?
What football club did Roger Hunt play for when he won his 1966 World
Cup medal?
In what World Cups did Bryan Robson appear?
What is the minimum rest period between two games for any team at the
2006 World Cup according to FIFA competition rules?
Which 1970 World Cup England striker retired to run a successful West
Midlands window cleaning business?
Fill in the missing name in this sequence of England managers:
Taylor, Venables, Hoddle, ? , Keegan.
Who were England's three goalkeepers in the 1982 World Cup?
What did all of these players win between 1995 and 1999: Jurgen
Klinsmann, Eric Cantona, Gian Franco Zola, Dennis Bergkamp and David Ginola?
What football club did Nobby Stiles play for when he won his 1966
World Cup medal?
Which past England captain is the only player in English football to
have captained an English Football League-winning club in three different
decades?
How many places were allocated to European teams for the 2006 World
Cup, including the hosts Germany?
Who appeared most times for England and how many times?
Between the 1966 and 2006 World Cups only four England captains have
played for three different clubs while captaining their country, who are they?
What football club did Geoff Hurst play for when he won his 1966
World Cup medal?
What decade was the crossbar introduced in Football?
Who broke his neck in the 1956 FA Cup Final?
Who was the first football transfer over £10m between English
clubs?
Who replaced David Seaman as England's third choice goalkeeper in the
1990 World Cup squad after Seaman injured his thumb in training?
Where was the 1978 World Cup held?
FIFA's 2006 World Cup rules dictate a squad size of how many
players?
In what World Cup did Mark Hateley and Gary Lineker wear the 9 and 10
shirts?
What did each of these players win between 1996 and 2000: Matthias
Sammer, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zedane, Rivaldo, and Luis Figo?
Where was the 1998 World Cup held?
Who was the first black footballer to win a full England cap?
What football club did Martin Peters play for when he won his 1966
World Cup medal?
Which manager took England to the semi-final of the world cup in
1990?
Whose last game as manager of England was a 0-0 draw away to Portugal
in 1974?
It is said that an international football match in 1969 started a war
between which two nations in the central Americas?
What football club did George Cohen play for when he won his 1966
World Cup medal?
How many medals will be awarded to each of the first, second and
third placed teams at the 2006 World Cup?
Who were England's four successful penalty takers in the winning 4-2
penalty shoot-out against Spain in the Euro-96 Championship quarter-final at
Wembley?
What football club did Ray Wilson play for when he won his 1966 World
Cup medal?
Which team did England beat in the 1990 World Cup when Gary Lineker's
second successful penalty of the game gave England victory in extra time?
What football club did Alan Ball play for when he won his 1966 World
Cup medal?
In the event of a team failing to fulfil or complete a match at the
2006 World Cup Final tournament, what is the score awarded to the other team by
the organising committee?
Who scored England's dying seconds winner against Belgium in the 1990
World Cup?
How many managers had been in charge of the England football team
before Alf Ramsey?
Who was England's goalkeeper in the losing game against Germany in
the 1970 World Cup?
Who was Everton's representative in England's 1966 World Cup winning
team?
Where are the headquarters of FIFA (Federation Internationale de
Football Association)?
How many players in England's 2006 World Cup squad had previously
captained their country? (Or to ask a tougher question, name them..)
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