Football Quiz 1

Questions

1. What did each of these players win between 1996 and 2000: Matthias Sammer, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zedane, Rivaldo, and Luis Figo?

2. Which 1970 World Cup England striker retired to run a successful West Midlands window cleaning business?

3. Fill in the missing name in this sequence of England managers: Taylor, Venables, Hoddle, ?

4. Who were England's three goalkeepers in the 1982 World Cup?

5. What did all of these players win between 1995 and 1999: Jurgen Klinsmann, Eric Cantona, Gian Franco Zola, Dennis Bergkamp and David Ginola?

6. Which past England captain is the only player in English football to have captained an English Football League-winning club in three different decades?

7. How many places were allocated to European teams for the 2006 World Cup, including the hosts Germany?

8. Who appeared most times for England and how many times?

9. Between the 1966 and 2006 World Cups only four England captains have played for three different clubs while captaining their country, who are they?

10. What decade was the crossbar introduced in Football?

11. Who broke his neck in the 1956 FA Cup Final?

12. Who was the first football transfer over £10m between English clubs?

13. Who replaced David Seaman as England's third choice goalkeeper in the 1990 World Cup squad after Seaman injured his thumb in training?

14. Where was the 1978 World Cup held?

15. FIFA's 2006 World Cup rules dictate a squad size of how many players?

16. In what World Cup did Mark Hateley and Gary Lineker wear the 9 and 10 shirts?

17. What is the minimum rest period between two games for any team at the 2006 World Cup according to FIFA competition rules?

18. Who was the first black footballer to win a full England cap?

19. Which manager took England to the semi-final of the world cup in 1990?

20. Whose last game as manager of England was a 0-0 draw away to Portugal in 1974?

21. It is said that an international football match in 1969 started a war between which two nations in the central Americas?

22. How many medals will be awarded to each of the first, second and third placed teams at the 2006 World Cup?

23. 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?

24. 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?

25. 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?

26. Who scored England's dying seconds winner against Belgium in the 1990 World Cup?

27. How many managers had been in charge of the England football team before Alf Ramsey?

28. Who was England's goalkeeper in the losing game against Germany in the 1970 World Cup?

29. Who was Everton's representative in England's 1966 World Cup winning team?

30. Where are the headquarters of FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association)?

31. How many players in England's 2006 World Cup squad had previously captained their country?

32. Who was England's first national team manager (or 'coach', since interpretation of the job title back then is open to debate)?

33. Who was the last player to captain England before David Beckham?

34. What football club did Gordon Banks play for when he won his 1966 World Cup medal?

35. Fill in the missing name in this sequence of England managers: Ramsey, Mercer, Revie, ?

36. Which of these players never scored a hat-trick for England: Bobby Charlton, Gary Lineker, Paul Scholes, Luther Blissett, Teddy Sheringham, Alan Shearer?

37. England coaches Sammy Lee and Ray Clemence played together at which club?

38. How many places were allocated to African teams for the 2006 World Cup?

39. 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?

40. Aside from goalkeepers, which two England captains since 1966 never scored their country?

41. Which of these players never captained England's senior team: Peter Beardsley, Paul Ince, David Seaman, Bobby Charlton, Gordon Banks?

42. Who was England's football manager in the 1970 World Cup?

43. How many players in England's 2006 World Cup squad were also in the 1998 squad?

44. Which manager first appointed David Beckham as England captain?

45. Who was the first player to play for England who had not been born when England won the world cup in 1966?

46. 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?

47. In what World Cup did the England goals by Mariner, Robson and Francis feature in games against France, Czechoslovakia and Kuwait?

48. Where was the 1986 World Cup held?

49. Whose injury made way for Geoff Hurst in England's 1966 World Cup team?

50. Who was the first defender to captain England after Bobby Moore?

51. Who was the first £100,000 (or above) football transfer?

52. What decade was the white ball legalised in football?

53. What did these players all win between 1963 and 1968: Lev Yashin, Dennis Law, Eusebio, Bobby Charlton, Florian Albert and George Best?

54. Who was the first football transfer over £100,000 between English clubs?

55. Where and when were the three World Cup tournaments that England failed to qualify for after 1966?

56. Where was the 1962 World Cup held?

57. Who was the first £1m football transfer between English clubs?

58. 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?

59. What height and width is a football goal?

60. Who, according to FIFA regulations, was responsible for supplying the footballs for the 2006 World Cup qualifying stage games?

61. In what decade was England's first national team manager appointed?

62. In what World Cups did Bryan Robson appear?