Diego Maradona Trivia
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60 free Diego Maradona trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Diego Maradona trivia is the story of a boy from a Buenos Aires shantytown who juggled a ball at half-time for Argentinos Juniors at twelve, made his debut at fifteen, broke the world transfer record twice, dragged an unfashionable southern Italian club to two league titles, and in four minutes in Mexico City scored both the most infamous and the most beautiful goals in World Cup history. This quiz covers all of it: Los Cebollitas and the 141-game unbeaten run, the nutmeg on debut, being left out of the 1978 squad, the 1979 World Youth Championship, the Boca title, the Bernabéu ovation and the Bilbao brawl, Napoli's saviour and the 'Ma-Gi-Ca' front line, the 1989 UEFA Cup, the 1986 tournament and the 53 fouls, the Hand of God, the tears of 1990, the ephedrine test of 1994, the cocaine bans, the talk show with Pelé as first guest, the 6-1 in Bolivia and 'suck it and keep on sucking it', Dorados and Gimnasia, the £7.1 million shirt, and the medical trial after his death in 2020. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen the Goal of the Century clip; the expert tier is for people who know which defender he nutmegged on debut. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on Maradona, and the supporting sentence is attached to each question.
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Q 01With which player did Maradona share the FIFA Player of the Century award in 2000?
Pelé
Pelé won a second award, voted by FIFA officials, journalists and coaches, after Maradona took the fans' web poll. Maradona collected his prize and walked out before Pelé went on stage.
Q 02By what nickname was Maradona known across the football world?
El Pibe de Oro
El Pibe de Oro means 'The Golden Boy'. As a boy he entertained crowds with ball tricks at half-time of Argentinos Juniors matches, years before his own debut.
Q 03In which shantytown on the outskirts of Buenos Aires was Maradona raised?
Villa Fiorito
Villa Fiorito, where the family lived in a shack. Young Diego earned money selling scrap and the foil from cigarette packets.
Q 04What was the name of the Argentinos Juniors youth team Maradona starred for as a boy?
Los Cebollitas
Los Cebollitas means 'The Little Onions'. At his trial the coach doubted Maradona was only eight and checked his ID card before taking him on.
Q 05What did Maradona's coach tell the 15-year-old to try on his 1976 debut?
Nutmeg
A nutmeg: 'play like you know, and if you can, nutmeg someone', said coach Juan Carlos Montes. Soon after coming on, Maradona slipped the ball through his marker's legs.
Q 06In which Gulf city did Maradona coach the club Al Wasl during the 2011–12 season?
Dubai
Dubai's Al Wasl gave him a two-year contract in 2011, his first job since leaving the Argentina post, but the team struggled and he was sacked after a single season.
Q 07Which Argentine club did Maradona join in 1993, whose shirt Lionel Messi revealed in a goal tribute after his death?
Newell's Old Boys
Newell's Old Boys is the club Messi himself played for as a boy. Four days after Maradona died he scored against Osasuna and pulled off his top to reveal its shirt underneath.
Q 08Which coach left the 17-year-old Maradona out of Argentina's squad for the 1978 World Cup on home soil?
César Luis Menotti
César Luis Menotti felt he was still too young, and Argentina won that World Cup without him. A year later Menotti coached Maradona's under-20 side to the world youth title.
Q 09In which country did Maradona star at the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship, scoring six goals?
Japan
Japan hosted the tournament, and Argentina won the final 3–1 after falling behind to the Soviet Union, Maradona scoring the third. He was named its best player.
Q 10Maradona's first senior international goal came against which country, also the opponents in his first match as Argentina manager?
Scotland
Scotland lost 3–1 at Hampden Park in June 1979, with the 18-year-old among the scorers. He was back at the same ground in 2008 to win his first match as manager 1–0.
Q 11Which Buenos Aires club did Maradona join in February 1981?
Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors won him over an offer from River Plate, who were ready to pay him as much as their top earner. Boca took the league title in his first season.
Q 12In 1982 Maradona joined which club for a world-record fee of £5 million?
Barcelona
Barcelona paid the record fee for the 21-year-old, but two seasons of injury and rows with club president Josep Lluís Núñez followed, and he left for Italy in 1984.
Q 13Which Athletic Bilbao player, dubbed 'the Butcher of Bilbao', fractured Maradona's ankle with a tackle in September 1983?
Andoni Goikoetxea
Q 21After his 15-month cocaine ban ended in 1992, Maradona left Napoli for which Spanish club?
Sevilla
Sevilla signed him at the urging of their coach Carlos Bilardo, who had managed Argentina's 1986 World Cup winners, and got a single season out of him before he went home to Argentina.
Q 22Maradona's last Argentina goal, in 1994, came against which country?
Greece
Greece lost 4–0 near Boston. Four days later Maradona won his 91st and last cap, and was then sent home from the World Cup after failing a drug test.
Q 23In which country was the 1986 World Cup, which Maradona won as captain, held?
Mexico
Mexico stepped in as host after Colombia pulled out for lack of money. Maradona played every minute of Argentina's seven games there and scored five goals.
Andoni Goikoetxea later kept the boot he wore for the tackle on display at home in a case, like a monument.
Q 14How did Maradona's last game for his Spanish club, the 1984 Copa del Rey final, end?
In a mass brawl
In a mass brawl: after a 1–0 defeat to Athletic Bilbao, Maradona floored one opponent and kicked out at others in front of King Juan Carlos. He never played for the club again.
Q 15Which Maradona event drew over 50,000 Napoli fans in July 1984?
His unveiling
His unveiling was all it was: he walked out, saluted the crowd and showed a few touches of the ball, with no match played. Three years later he led the club to its first league title.
Q 16Maradona's Napoli won their first Serie A title in 1987 by dethroning which defending champions?
Juventus
Juventus, champions the year before, finished runners-up as Napoli became the first club from the southern mainland to win the league, breaking the northern giants' hold on the title.
Q 17Which Napoli understudy to Maradona said he learned free kicks by spying on him in training?
Gianfranco Zola
Gianfranco Zola joined Napoli in 1989, and Maradona greeted him by joking that the club had finally bought someone shorter than him. The two stayed behind after training to practise set pieces.
Q 18Which German club did Maradona's Napoli beat over two legs to win the 1989 UEFA Cup?
Stuttgart
Stuttgart led the first leg until Maradona levelled with a penalty and set up Careca's late winner. A 3–3 draw in Germany then sealed Napoli's first European trophy.
Q 19Which other trophy did Maradona's Napoli win in 1987?
Coppa Italia
The Coppa Italia: Napoli beat Atalanta 4–0 over two legs for a league and cup double. Their reward, a first European Cup tie, ended at once against Real Madrid.
Q 20Who broke Maradona's record of 115 goals for Napoli in 2017?
Marek Hamšík
Marek Hamšík tied the mark against Torino and passed it a week later with the winner against Sampdoria; the record had stood since 1991. Dries Mertens overtook him in 2020.
Q 24Against which team did Maradona score the 'Hand of God' goal in the 1986 quarter-final?
England
England lost 2–1, four years after the Falklands War, and Maradona wrote in his autobiography that the win was revenge for the Argentine boys killed there.
Q 25Maradona said his 1986 handball goal was scored 'a little with the hand of God' and a little with what?
Head
His head: 'a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God', he said that day. The referee had taken it for a header, and Maradona later admitted the hand was his own.
Q 26Which goalkeeper did Maradona round to score the 1986 'Goal of the Century'?
Peter Shilton
Peter Shilton was left sitting by a final feint after Maradona had dribbled from inside his own half. Minutes earlier the same goalkeeper had lost a high ball to Maradona's hand.
Q 27About how many times was Maradona fouled across his seven games at the 1986 World Cup?
53
53 fouls, more than seven a game. He still played every minute and scored or set up ten of Argentina's 14 goals.
Q 28Whose winning goal in the 1986 final against West Germany did Maradona set up in the 84th minute?
Jorge Burruchaga
Jorge Burruchaga ran onto Maradona's pass three minutes after West Germany had come from 2–0 down to level, and his goal made it 3–2.
Q 29Which French newspaper described Maradona as 'half-angel, half-devil'?
L'Équipe
L'Équipe's phrase is tied to his 1986 quarter-final: a handball goal the referee missed, then, minutes later, a solo run voted the World Cup's goal of the century.
Q 30Which Italian defender famously man-marked Maradona in Argentina's 2–1 defeat at the 1982 World Cup?
Claudio Gentile
Claudio Gentile kicked and shadowed him all game, then shrugged that football 'is not for ballerinas'. Italy went on to win the tournament.