Brighton & Hove Albion Trivia
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60 free Brighton & Hove Albion trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Brighton & Hove Albion beat the Football League champions to win the Charity Shield in 1910, then waited seven decades for their next headline. This quiz covers the whole story: the Southern League years, Brian Clough's brief stay under Mike Bamber, Peter Ward's 36 goals, Alan Mullery's promotion, 'and Smith must score' at Wembley in 1983, the sale of the Goldstone Ground and the pitch invasions, Robbie Reinelt at Hereford, two years in Gillingham, the Withdean athletics track and the 'Tom Hark' fundraising single, Zamora's double promotion, Dick Knight and Tony Bloom, the long fight for Falmer, Gus Poyet, Chris Hughton's promotion, Graham Potter, Roberto De Zerbi's Europa League run and the youngest manager in Premier League history. Early questions suit anyone who has heard 'Sussex by the Sea'; later ones are for supporters who know their North Stand from their West Stand at the Amex: what Withdean was before it was an athletics track, which club shared the Goldstone in 1902, why Lewes District Council forced a judicial review, and which club were the last opponents at both the Goldstone and the first league game at Falmer. Good for a supporters' club night or a Sussex pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the club, its grounds and the 1983 final, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01Which Football League champions did Brighton beat in the 1910 Charity Shield?
Aston Villa
Aston Villa lost 1–0 at Stamford Bridge to a Charlie Webb goal and Brighton were dubbed 'Champions of England': in five such meetings, it was the only time the Southern League's winners beat the Football League's.
Q 02Where were Brighton & Hove Albion founded?
A pub
A pub: the Seven Stars in Ship Street hosted the founding meeting on 24 June 1901, and the club it created was called Brighton & Hove United until the name changed before a ball had been kicked.
Q 03Which club first used the Goldstone Ground, in September 1901, before Albion moved in?
Hove F.C.
Hove F.C. played the first match there on 7 September 1901 but could not afford the rent alone, so they invited Albion to share the ground from 1902 and left it to them two years later.
Q 04The Goldstone Ground was one of only two grounds outside London to host football at which event?
The 1948 Olympic Games
The 1948 Olympic Games brought a preliminary-round tie to Hove, where Luxembourg beat Afghanistan 6–0; the only other match played outside London was at Portsmouth.
Q 05Which future England captain debuted as a substitute at the Goldstone Ground in September 1992?
David Beckham
David Beckham, 17, replaced Andrei Kanchelskis in a League Cup tie, yet more than two years later Manchester United still sent him on loan to Preston North End to get first-team experience.
Q 06Brighton's 1957–58 Third Division South title coincided with which League shake-up?
The regional sections merged into national divisions
The regional sections merged into national divisions that summer, and the champions went up to the Second Division for the first time, where their opening match ended in a 9–0 defeat.
Q 07Which famous manager did chairman Mike Bamber bring to Brighton in 1973?
Brian Clough
Brian Clough arrived fresh from Derby and promptly lost 4–0 at home to amateurs Walton & Hersham in the FA Cup, then 8–2 to Bristol Rovers, before leaving for Leeds inside a year.
Q 08Which striker set a Brighton club record with 36 goals in 1976–77?
Peter Ward
Peter Ward's goals carried Brighton out of the Third Division that season, the first of two promotions in three years that took the club into the top flight for the first time.
Q 09Brighton reached the First Division for the first time in 1979 under which manager?
Alan Mullery
Alan Mullery's side finished their fixtures top of the Second Division, only for rivals Crystal Palace to win a postponed game afterwards and take the title by a single point.
Q 10The Brighton-Crystal Palace rivalry traces back to 1976 hostility between the Albion manager and which Palace boss?
Terry Venables
Terry Venables and his Brighton counterpart had been Tottenham team-mates who never got on, and their sides met five times that season, including an FA Cup tie that needed two replays.
Q 11How did Brighton travel to Wembley for the 1983 FA Cup final against Manchester United?
By helicopter
By helicopter: Brighton flew in as a side already relegated after finishing bottom of the First Division, then came within one last-minute save of winning the Cup.
Q 12Which BBC radio commentator uttered 'and Smith must score' in the 1983 FA Cup final?
Peter Jones
Peter Jones spoke too soon: Gary Bailey saved Gordon Smith's shot in the last moments of extra time, and Manchester United won the replay 4–0 five days later.
Q 13Who scored Brighton's two goals in the 2-2 first match of the 1983 FA Cup final?
Gordon Smith and Gary Stevens
Q 21After the Goldstone was sold, Brighton spent two seasons ground-sharing at which stadium?
Gillingham's Priestfield
Gillingham's Priestfield was more than 70 miles from Brighton; the board that sold the old ground had proposed sharing at Portsmouth, which never happened, and the exile in Kent lasted two full seasons.
Q 22Which Brighton home ground stood on a site that had once housed a zoo?
Withdean Stadium
Withdean Stadium opened as a tennis centre in the 1930s, housed a zoo after the war and was rebuilt for athletics in 1955, becoming the home track of runner Steve Ovett long before football arrived.
Q 23To ease local objections at Withdean, what did each match ticket include?
Gordon Smith and Gary Stevens scored either side of two United goals, Stevens levelling in the 87th minute to force the extra time in which Smith was denied a winner at the death.
Q 14In the 1983 FA Cup final replay, which 18-year-old became the youngest scorer in an FA Cup final?
Norman Whiteside
Norman Whiteside headed United's second goal in the 4–0 replay win; a knee injury forced the teenage record-breaker to retire at only 26, and he retrained as a podiatrist.
Q 15Brighton lost the 1991 Second Division play-off final at Wembley 3-1 to which club?
Notts County
Notts County won with two Tommy Johnson goals after Brighton had hit both post and bar; one game from the top flight that day, Albion were relegated a year later and in the League's bottom division by 1996.
Q 16Which majority shareholder pushed through the controversial 1990s sale of the Goldstone Ground?
Bill Archer
Bill Archer lived in Lancashire, far from the club he controlled, so supporters took their protest to him and marched through his home village of Mellor.
Q 17Brighton were docked two points in 1996–97 as punishment for what?
A pitch invasion
A pitch invasion: fans protesting against the sale of their ground came onto the field during a game against Lincoln City in October 1996; the lost points left Brighton 11 adrift, yet they survived on goals scored.
Q 18Which former Charlton joint boss hauled Brighton off the bottom of the League in 1996-97?
Steve Gritt
Steve Gritt took over a side 11 points adrift at the foot of the League in December 1996, kept it up on the final day, and was sacked nine months after that escape.
Q 19Whose equaliser at Hereford United on the last day of 1996-97 kept Brighton in the Football League?
Robbie Reinelt
Robbie Reinelt came off the bench and turned in a rebound off the post to cancel out Kerry Mayo's own goal; the 1–1 draw kept Brighton up on goals scored and sent Hereford down instead.
Q 20Which lifelong fan took control of Brighton in 1997 after campaigning to oust the board that sold the Goldstone?
Dick Knight
Dick Knight sat in the Goldstone directors' box only once, for the ground's final match in April 1997; his takeover was not legally completed until that September.
A free public transport voucher
A free public transport voucher came with every ticket, good for buses and trains across Brighton and Hove, so that fans would leave their cars at home and spare the neighbours who had opposed football at the stadium.
Q 24Which striker's goals fired Brighton to successive promotions as champions in 2001 and 2002?
Bobby Zamora
Bobby Zamora cost £100,000 from Bristol Rovers, and fans sang 'When the ball hits the goal it's not Shearer or Cole, it's Zamora' to the tune of 'That's Amore'.
Q 25Micky Adams left Brighton in October 2001 to become Dave Bassett's assistant at which club?
Leicester City
Leicester City were in the Premiership, and Adams, whose Brighton side were level on points at the top of their division, said that becoming an assistant was perhaps the only way he could get into a top-flight club.
Q 26Brighton's 2005 fundraising single, which entered the UK chart at number 17, was a version of which song?
Tom Hark
Tom Hark, the Piranhas' ska hit and a terrace favourite, was reworked by fans as 'We Want Falmer', with words by the poet Attila the Stockbroker, to raise money and noise for the club's stadium campaign.
Q 27Which local authority mounted a High Court challenge to Falmer Stadium's 2005 planning approval?
Lewes District
Lewes District Council's area takes in part of the site, and a mistake in how the government's decision letter described it meant the 2005 decision had to be taken again; approval came only in July 2007.
Q 28Before 'Seagulls' caught on in the 1970s, Brighton were briefly known by which nickname?
The Dolphins
The Dolphins did not last: when Crystal Palace fans chanted 'Eagles' in the mid-1970s, Brighton supporters answered with 'Seagulls', and the retort became the club's nickname.
Q 29Tony Bloom made his fortune primarily how?
Professional sports gambling
Professional sports gambling made Tony Bloom's money: he set up an online bookmaker and poker sites in the 2000s, and heads a private betting syndicate run through his company Starlizard.
Q 30Which club were the Goldstone's last opponents in 1997 and Falmer's first league visitors in 2011?
Doncaster Rovers
Doncaster Rovers lost 1–0 in the old ground's farewell and led in the new one's first league match, until substitute Will Buckley scored twice, the winner deep into stoppage time.