Champions League Trivia
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48 free Champions League trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
The UEFA Champions League is the biggest club competition in football, and seventy years of it have produced an enormous amount of trivia. This quiz starts with L'Équipe's idea in 1955 and Real Madrid's five straight titles, runs through the Lisbon Lions, Clough's Forest, the Heysel ban and the 1992 rebrand, and covers the great finals: Hampden 1960, Camp Nou 1999, Zidane's volley, the Miracle of Istanbul, Drogba in Munich and PSG's 5-0. There are questions on the anthem, the starball, the trophy, the records held by Cristiano Ronaldo, Paco Gento, Carlo Ancelotti and Roy Makaay, and the 36-team league phase. About a third are easy for anyone who watches on Tuesday nights, a third are medium and the rest are for people who remember who Steaua beat. Every answer is checked against the competition's reference and records pages.
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Q 01Which Liverpool goalkeeper wobbled his legs to put off Roma's penalty takers in the 1984 final?
Bruce Grobbelaar
Bruce Grobbelaar's 'spaghetti legs' act rattled Francesco Graziani, who shot over the bar, and Liverpool won the shootout 4-2.
Q 02The editor of which French newspaper, Gabriel Hanot, proposed the creation of the European Cup?
L'Équipe
L'Équipe's Gabriel Hanot, with colleague Jacques Ferran, also conceived football's Ballon d'Or, first awarded in 1956.
Q 03Whose extra-time free kick at Wembley won the last final before the Champions League rebrand?
Koeman
Ronald Koeman's free kick beat Sampdoria 1-0 in 1992, and in 2020 the Dutch defender returned to the same club as manager.
Q 04Which Brazilian scored for Real Madrid in both the 2022 and 2024 Champions League finals?
Vinícius Júnior
Vinícius Júnior scored the only goal against Liverpool in 2022 and struck again at Wembley, as Real Madrid reached 15 titles.
Q 05Whom did Real Madrid beat 4-3 in the inaugural 1956 final at the Parc des Princes?
Stade de Reims
Stade de Reims led 2-0 inside ten minutes, but Real Madrid levelled by half-time and won with Héctor Rial's late second goal.
Q 06The 1960 final, the highest-scoring ever, saw Real Madrid beat which team 7-3 at Hampden Park?
Eintracht Frankfurt
Ferenc Puskás scored four and Alfredo Di Stéfano a hat-trick.
Q 07Which club ended Real Madrid's five-title run by knocking them out in the 1960-61 first round?
Barcelona
Barcelona then lost the final 3-2 to Benfica; the trophy left Iberia for the first time only in 1963.
Q 08Which club in 1967 became the first British winner, with a team all born within 30 miles of Glasgow?
Celtic
Celtic's Lisbon Lions went a goal down to a Mazzola penalty, then beat Inter 2-1 through Gemmell and Chalmers.
Q 09Which team was the first English club to win the European Cup, beating Benfica 4-1 in 1968?
Manchester United
Manchester United won it ten years after the Munich air disaster, with crash survivors Bobby Charlton and Bill Foulkes in the side.
Q 10Which Dutch forward, the face of Total Football, starred in Ajax's three straight European Cup wins from 1971?
Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff scored both goals in Ajax's 2-0 win over Inter in the 1972 final, the match hailed as Total Football's greatest moment.
Q 11Which club, English champions only once, won back-to-back European Cups under Brian Clough?
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest won the league the season after promotion, then beat Malmö and Hamburg in the 1979 and 1980 finals.
Q 12Why were English clubs banned from European competition for five years from 1985?
The Heysel Stadium disaster
The Heysel Stadium disaster killed 39 people before the 1985 final, which still went ahead, and Liverpool were banned for six years.
Q 13Which Romanian club won the European Cup in 1986?
Steaua București
Steaua București won 2-0 on penalties in Seville, as goalkeeper Helmuth Duckadam saved all four kicks he faced.
Q 21Which manager has won the competition a record five times?
Carlo Ancelotti
Carlo Ancelotti won it twice in Italy and three times with Real Madrid, in 2014, 2022 and 2024.
Q 22Who scored the fastest goal in the competition's history, after 10.12 seconds, in 2007?
Roy Makaay
Roy Makaay's goal for Bayern Munich helped knock Real Madrid out in the round of 16.
Q 23The 2005 final in Istanbul saw Liverpool come back from 3-0 down at half-time against which team?
AC Milan
AC Milan led 3-0 through an early goal and Hernán Crespo's double, but Jerzy Dudek saved Andriy Shevchenko's decisive kick in the shootout.
Q 14Which club won the 1996-97 Champions League, the last edition before league runners-up were allowed to enter?
Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund won the final 3-1 in Munich, and substitute Lars Ricken scored just 16 seconds after coming on.
Q 15The Champions League anthem, written by Tony Britten in 1992, is an adaptation of which Handel work?
Zadok the Priest
Handel wrote Zadok the Priest for King George II's coronation in 1727, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performed Britten's version.
Q 16What is the name of the Champions League's logo, created by Design Bridge in 1991?
The starball
By 1999 it reportedly had a 94 percent recognition rate among fans.
Q 17Which nickname has the Champions League trophy earned?
Big Ears
Big Ears comes from the trophy's huge handles, and Spanish fans call it La Orejona for the same reason.
Q 18Which manager led Inter to the 2010 title, completing the first treble by an Italian club?
José Mourinho
José Mourinho's Inter beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in Madrid, and within a week he had left to take over Real Madrid.
Q 19Who is the all-time top scorer in the competition with 140 goals?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 140 for three clubs and finished as the competition's top scorer in a record seven seasons.
Q 20Which two players share the record of eight appearances in finals?
Paco Gento and Paolo Maldini
Gento's were all for Real Madrid between 1956 and 1966; Maldini's all for Milan between 1989 and 2007.
Q 24Which two substitutes scored the 1999 winners' injury-time goals to beat Bayern Munich?
Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Teddy Sheringham equalised in stoppage time and Ole Gunnar Solskjær poked in the winner moments later, completing the treble.
Q 25Zinedine Zidane's famous volley won the 2002 final at Hampden Park against which German club?
Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer Leverkusen also finished second in the Bundesliga and lost the German Cup final that season, earning the tag 'Neverkusen'.
Q 26Which club became the first from London to win the Champions League, beating Bayern on penalties in 2012?
Chelsea
Chelsea won in Bayern's own stadium, after Didier Drogba's 88th-minute header and Petr Čech's extra-time save from Arjen Robben.
Q 27Who scored a second-minute penalty in the 2019 final against Tottenham?
Mohamed Salah
Mohamed Salah converted after Moussa Sissoko's handball, and Divock Origi added a late second for Liverpool.
Q 28Which club won the 2025 Champions League final 5-0, the biggest margin ever in a final?
Paris Saint-Germain
Paris Saint-Germain won their first European Cup, the second by a French club after Marseille in 1993, with Désiré Doué scoring twice.
Q 29What replaced the Champions League groups from 2024-25?
A 36-team table
A 36-team table replaced the eight groups of four, and each club plays eight different opponents, four at home and four away.
Q 30Who scored five goals against RB Leipzig in March 2023, equalling the Champions League record for one match?
Erling Haaland
Erling Haaland did it in 57 minutes, matching the five-goal hauls of Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano.