David Beckham Trivia
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49 free David Beckham trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
David Beckham is the only English player to win a league title in four countries, a free-kick specialist with 65 direct set-piece goals, and one of the most recognisable people on earth. This 49-question quiz covers the lot: the Leytonstone boy named after Bobby Charlton, the FA Youth Cup class of '92, the halfway-line goal against Wimbledon, the 1999 treble, the Argentina red card and the Greece redemption, the move to Madrid as a Galáctico, the record-breaking Galaxy deal, the Milan loans, a final title with PSG, and 115 England caps. There are questions on the shirt numbers, the honours, the managers, the tattoos, the nickname Golden Balls, Inter Miami and Salford City, the Adidas lifetime deal, the Olympic speedboat and the 2025 knighthood. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone, share your score, or print it for a football quiz night.
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Q 01In which part of London was Beckham born in 1975?
Leytonstone
Leytonstone, at Whipps Cross Hospital. He grew up a long way from Old Trafford, but his parents were devoted Manchester United supporters and he followed them.
Q 02Beckham's middle name Robert honours which footballer, his father's favourite?
Bobby Charlton
He later attended one of Bobby Charlton's Soccer Schools and received his honorary 100th cap from him.
Q 03In September 2022 Beckham queued for about 12 hours with the public to pay his respects to whom?
The Queen
The Queen. Beckham joined the public queue for Elizabeth II's lying in state at 2am, in a flat cap, and said he was there on behalf of his royalist grandparents.
Q 04Which Manchester United team-mate was best man at Beckham's wedding in 1999?
Gary Neville
Gary Neville was best man at a wedding so tightly guarded that even the couple's baby son wore a security tag, yet a tabloid still beat the magazine that had bought the photo rights.
Q 05Beckham's two stoppage-time corners in the 1999 Champions League final led to goals by Teddy Sheringham and which other substitute?
Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Ole Gunnar Solskjær poked in the winner from the second corner, moments after Sheringham had equalised from the first; United had been losing to Bayern Munich since the opening minutes.
Q 06Beckham became an ambassador in 2005 for which organisation?
UNICEF
UNICEF. To mark his tenth year in the role, he and the children's agency launched a fund in 2015 called 7, the number he wore at Manchester United.
Q 07Against which country did Beckham miss from the spot in the Euro 2004 quarter-final shoot-out?
Portugal
Portugal. Taking England's first kick, Beckham seemed to lose his footing on the sandy turf and sent the ball high over the bar; England lost the shoot-out 6–5.
Q 08To which club was Beckham loaned in 1994–95 for first-team experience?
Preston North End
Preston North End: Alex Ferguson felt the teenager's football education wasn't finished and sent him there for a month, during which he scored twice in five games, once straight from a corner.
Q 09Against which club did Beckham score from the halfway line on the opening day of 1996–97?
Wimbledon
Wimbledon. With United 2–0 up, Beckham saw goalkeeper Neil Sullivan off his line and lobbed him from the halfway line; he later wrote that the shot 'kicked open the door to the rest of my life'.
Q 10Whose sudden retirement in 1997 let Beckham swap Manchester United's number 10 shirt for the number 7?
Eric Cantona
Eric Cantona shocked the club by quitting football at 30, days after the 1996–97 season ended, and Beckham, who had spent that season in the 10, took over the shirt once worn by George Best.
Q 11Which award did Beckham's peers vote him in 1996–97?
PFA Young Player of the Year
PFA Young Player of the Year: the season had begun with his goal from the halfway line, which made him a household name, and within three weeks he had won his first England cap.
Q 12In the 1999 Champions League final, Beckham played out of position in which role?
Central midfield
Central midfield: with Roy Keane and Paul Scholes both suspended, Alex Ferguson moved Beckham inside to help control the ball, and it was his two stoppage-time corners that turned the final.
Q 13Beckham finished runner-up to which player for the 1999 Ballon d'Or?
Rivaldo
Q 21Beckham chose the number 23 shirt at Real Madrid in tribute to which sportsman?
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan: with the 7 he had worn in Manchester already on the back of Madrid's captain Raúl, Beckham took his basketball hero's 23, and kept it when he moved to Los Angeles.
Q 22Which Englishman, at Real Madrid since 1999, moved on within weeks of Beckham's arrival in 2003?
Steve McManaman
Steve McManaman, twice a Champions League winner in his four years in Spain, lost his place to the new signing and left for Manchester City at the end of that August.
Q 23Under which coach did Beckham finally win La Liga with Real Madrid, in 2006–07?
Fabio Capello
Rivaldo, the Brazilian forward, won the vote; Beckham came second after a season in which his corners set up both goals in the Champions League final and Manchester United won the Treble.
Q 14Which England manager dropped Beckham in 2006, only to recall him the following year?
Steve McClaren
Steve McClaren left him out of his first squad, with Beckham on 94 caps and his England career seemingly over; nine months later McClaren called him back, and he went on to win 115.
Q 15In 2000 Alex Ferguson dropped Beckham for a match at Leeds for what?
Missing training for his sick son
Missing training for his sick son: Beckham stayed at home when Brooklyn fell ill, and an unimpressed Ferguson left him out of the match at Leeds two days later, which United won 1–0 without him.
Q 16Which bone did Beckham break in April 2002, putting his World Cup place in doubt?
Metatarsal
Metatarsal: a bone in his left foot, broken by Aldo Duscher's tackle in a Champions League tie seven weeks before the World Cup, where Beckham played on but was never fully fit.
Q 17The famous 2003 dressing-room boot incident followed an FA Cup defeat to which club?
Arsenal
Arsenal had just knocked United out of the FA Cup when Alex Ferguson kicked a stray boot across the dressing room and cut Beckham above the eye; four months later he was sold to Real Madrid.
Q 18Beckham was a six-time champion with Manchester United, but which domestic trophy eluded him there?
The League Cup
The League Cup: the closest he came was the 2003 final in Cardiff, which United lost 2–0 to Liverpool a few months before he left for Spain.
Q 19Which club had announced a deal for Beckham in 2003 before he chose Real Madrid instead?
Barcelona
Barcelona: Joan Laporta had run for club president on a promise to sign Beckham, and when Beckham went to their great rivals instead, Laporta bought Ronaldinho.
Q 20Beckham's 2003 move to Real Madrid made him the latest of president Florentino Pérez's big-name signings, known as what?
The Galácticos
The Galácticos: after Figo, Zidane and Ronaldo came Beckham, unveiled to more than 500 journalists and handed his white shirt by Alfredo Di Stéfano, the club's star of the 1950s.
Fabio Capello announced that Beckham had played his last game for the club once he agreed to join LA Galaxy, watched him keep training, put him back in the team a month later, and won the title on the final day.
Q 24Which manager left Beckham out of Great Britain's football squad for the London 2012 Olympics?
Stuart Pearce
Stuart Pearce put Beckham on his provisional list, then left him out of the final 18, saying no manager picks on sentiment, even though Beckham had helped London win the right to stage the Games.
Q 25Which MLS rule, brought in as Beckham joined LA Galaxy in 2007, is nicknamed the 'Beckham Rule'?
Designated Player Rule
The Designated Player Rule lets a club pay a star outside the league's salary cap. It began with one such player a team, with Beckham in mind, and soon grew to allow three.
Q 26Which MLS club grew out of a contract clause that let Beckham buy an expansion team at a cut price?
Inter Miami
Inter Miami. The clause fixed Beckham's price at US$25 million while other new teams' fees climbed past $300 million; he took up the option in 2014, and the club finally played its first match in 2020.
Q 27Beckham made his Galaxy debut in a 2007 friendly against which English club?
Chelsea
Chelsea won 1–0, and the much-hyped debut lasted less than a quarter of an hour: Beckham, nursing an injured ankle, came on only for the closing stages.
Q 28With which Italian club did Beckham spend two loan spells from LA Galaxy, in 2009 and 2010?
AC Milan
AC Milan. Beckham went there in the MLS close season to stay fit and keep his England place, wore the unfamiliar number 32, and played well enough that he asked to make the move permanent.
Q 29Which injury in March 2010 ruled Beckham out of that year's World Cup?
Torn Achilles tendon
A torn Achilles tendon, suffered with no one near him in a league match in Italy; a surgeon in Finland operated the next day and said it would be six months before he was kicking again, ending his hopes of a fourth World Cup.
Q 30What did Beckham drape around his neck at Old Trafford in 2010?
A green-and-gold anti-Glazer scarf
A green-and-gold anti-Glazer scarf: thousands of United fans wore the colours that night in protest at the club's owners, and Beckham, there with the visitors, put one on as he left the pitch, then said the protests were not his business.