50 free Arsenal trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free Arsenal trivia questions with answers. Arsenal began as a works team of munitions workers in Woolwich and became the club with the longest unbroken run in England's top flight, a record 14 FA Cups and an entire league season without defeat. This quiz walks the whole history: Dial Square and the 6-0 first match, the 1913 move to Highbury and the 1919 vote that Spurs never forgave, Herbert Chapman's WM formation, white sleeves and renamed tube station, the 1930s titles, Bertie Mee's double, Michael Thomas at Anfield, George Graham's back four, Wenger and the Invincibles, the Emirates, Arteta's FA Cup, and Arsenal Women's two European crowns. Early questions suit anyone who has watched a North London derby; the later ones are for supporters who know their Marble Halls from their Clock End: what Highbury's marble was really made of, how many votes Tottenham got in 1919, and which club Chapman debuted the white sleeves against. Good for a matchday pub quiz or a supporters' club night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the club, its history, its grounds and its players, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01Arsenal were founded in 1886 under what name, taken from a Royal Arsenal workshop in Woolwich?
Dial Square
Scotsman David Danskin and fifteen fellow munitions workers founded the club; it was Royal Arsenal by January 1887.
Q 02Arsenal's first ever match, in December 1886, was a 6-0 win over which side?
Eastern Wanderers
The club turned professional in 1891, the first in London to do so.
Q 03In 1893 Woolwich Arsenal became the first club from which region to join the Football League?
The south of England
They reached the First Division in 1904 and moved north of the river to Highbury in 1913.
Q 04Which chairman moved Arsenal from Plumstead to Highbury in 1913?
Henry Norris
'Woolwich' was dropped from the name with the move; the ground was laid out by Archibald Leitch.
Q 05Herbert Chapman was lured to Arsenal in 1925 from which club, where he had just won two league titles?
Huddersfield Town
He became the first manager to win the league with two different clubs.
Q 06Which formation did Herbert Chapman implement at Arsenal, one that underpins most modern systems?
The WM
He also added white sleeves and shirt numbers, campaigned for floodlights and had a tube station renamed after the club.
Q 07Which London Underground station was renamed 'Arsenal' at Herbert Chapman's urging in 1932?
Gillespie Road
Chapman died of pneumonia in January 1934, mid-season, aged 55; a Jacob Epstein bust of him stands at the Emirates.
Q 08What was Arsenal's first national trophy, won under Chapman in 1930?
The FA Cup
League championships followed in 1930-31 and 1932-33, then a hat-trick of titles from 1933-34 to 1934-35 and 1937-38.
Q 09Which architect, designer of many British grounds of the era, originally laid out Arsenal's Highbury stadium?
Archibald Leitch
The famous Art Deco West Stand (1932) and East Stand were later designed by Claude Waterlow Ferrier and William Binnie.
Q 10Highbury's record attendance of 73,295 was set in March 1935 against which club?
Sunderland
By the time it closed in 2006 safety rules had cut capacity to 38,419.
Q 11The famous 'Marble Halls' of Highbury's East Stand were, strictly speaking, made of what?
Terrazzo
The Art Deco facades were listed and preserved when the ground became the Highbury Square flats.
Q 12Who scored a hat-trick in the final match at Highbury, against Wigan Athletic on 7 May 2006?
Thierry Henry
He finished as the club's all-time top scorer with 228 goals and was voted its greatest player in a 2008 poll.
Q 13Which physiotherapist became acting Arsenal manager in 1966 and won the 1971 double?
Bertie Mee
His side also won the club's first European trophy, the 1969-70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
Q 21Which manager, greeted by the headline 'Arsène who?', was appointed in October 1996?
Arsène Wenger
He arrived from Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan and stayed 22 years, the longest and most successful reign in the club's history.
Q 22The 1998 Premier League and FA Cup double had never before been achieved by whom?
A foreign manager
He repeated the feat a few seasons later, a record-equalling third double for the club.
Q 23The 2003-04 'Invincibles' won the Premier League with what record?
26 wins, 12 draws, no defeats
Q 14Who scored the extra-time winner in the 1971 FA Cup final that sealed Arsenal's first double?
Charlie George
Ray Kennedy had headed the title-clinching goal at Tottenham days earlier.
Q 15Whose injury-time winner secured a famous 3-2 FA Cup final victory in 1979 over Manchester United?
Alan Sunderland
Graham Rix supplied the cross; it was the club's only trophy of a barren decade.
Q 16Who scored the last-minute goal at Anfield in May 1989 that won Arsenal the title on the season's final night?
Michael Thomas
Arsenal needed to beat Liverpool by two clear goals and did exactly that, 2-0.
Q 17Which manager, a 1971 double winner as a player, returned to Arsenal in 1986 and built the 'famous Back Four'?
George Graham
His 1990-91 champions lost just one league match all season.
Q 18In 1993 Arsenal became the first club to do what in a single season?
Win the FA Cup and League Cup double
Both finals were against Sheffield Wednesday.
Q 19Alan Smith's left-foot volley won the 1994 European Cup Winners' Cup final against which Italian side?
Parma
Arsenal lost the following year's final to Real Zaragoza to a last-second Nayim lob.
Q 20Ian Wright arrived from Crystal Palace in September 1991 for a then club-record fee of how much?
£2.5m
He was the club's top scorer for six seasons running and broke Cliff Bastin's record with a hat-trick against Bolton in 1997.
The unbeaten league run stretched to 49 matches, from 7 May 2003 to 24 October 2004.
Q 24Arsenal's unbeaten league run of 2003-04 lasted how many matches?
49
It ended at Old Trafford in October 2004.
Q 25How did Arsenal win the 2005 FA Cup final, the last match of Patrick Vieira's Arsenal career?
5-4 on penalties after 0-0
The opponents were Manchester United; Vieira struck the winning penalty with his final kick for the club.
Q 26Which Arsenal goalkeeper was sent off early in the 2006 Champions League final in Paris?
Jens Lehmann
Arsenal, the first London club to reach the final, led through Sol Campbell but lost 2-1 to Barcelona.
Q 27How many years had Arsenal spent at Highbury when they moved to the Emirates Stadium in July 2006?
93
The new ground at Ashburton Grove cost £390 million and holds 60,704.
Q 28Roughly how much did Emirates pay for a 15-year stadium naming deal including seven years of shirt sponsorship?
£100m
The stadium was officially opened by Prince Philip on 26 October 2006; Olof Mellberg of Aston Villa scored the first competitive goal there.
Q 29Whose testimonial against Ajax on 22 July 2006 was the first match played at the Emirates Stadium?
Dennis Bergkamp
Statues of Adams, Henry, Chapman and later Bergkamp stand outside the ground.
Q 30Arsenal came from 2-0 down to beat which club 3-2 in the 2014 FA Cup final?
Hull City
Wenger went on to lift the cup a record seven times.