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50 free Football Stadiums trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Football grounds carry more history than the clubs that play in them. One was built from shipping containers and taken apart again, one sits higher than most mountain passes, one was offered to a club that said no, so its owner founded a new club to fill it. These 50 questions roam the world's great grounds, from Glasgow and Montevideo to Pyongyang and Doha: record attendances with the dates that set them, the finals each stadium staged, the quirks of their roofs, pitches and exteriors, and the naming deals and renamings that fans loved or hated. Every question is verified against a primary source and comes with a short explanation, so it works as a pub-quiz round, a classroom warm-up or a solo test of how well you really know where the game is played.
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Q 01The 2022 World Cup's demountable Doha venue was built from how many shipping containers, matching Qatar's dialling code?
974
974 recycled shipping containers made up the stadium, a nod to Qatar's +974 dialling code, and it was designed to be taken apart after the tournament. It was the first fully demountable World Cup ground.
Q 02Which London club was founded in 1905 specifically to occupy Stamford Bridge after Fulham turned the ground down?
Chelsea
Chelsea was created by new owner Gus Mears to fill Stamford Bridge, an athletics venue since 1877, after Fulham declined it for financial reasons. The ground came before the club.
Q 03Which ground, opened in 1989 on an island in Pyongyang's Taedong River, was built with an official capacity of 150,000?
Rungrado May Day Stadium
Rungrado May Day Stadium was re-rated at about 114,000 after a 2014 refit and is now second in the world only to a cricket ground in India. It stages the Mass Games far more often than football.
Q 04Which Munich stadium, opened for the 2006 World Cup, was the first in the world with a fully colour-changing exterior?
Allianz Arena
Allianz Arena's skin is 2,760 inflated ETFE plastic panels that glow red for Bayern and shone blue when 1860 Munich shared the ground until 2017. From a distance the panels look plain white.
Q 05Which London ground's grass pitch splits into three sections and slides away to reveal an artificial NFL field beneath?
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium's pitch rides on 99 trays weighing 10,000 tonnes in all and retracts under the South Stand, the first in the world to split in three before moving. NFL London games are played on the synthetic turf below.
Q 06Which football stadium staged the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics?
San Siro
San Siro opened the Milano Cortina Games having already staged the 1990 World Cup's opening ceremony and four European Cup finals, the last in 2016. Few football grounds have hosted a Winter Olympics at all.
Q 07Sunderland's Stadium of Light takes its name from the heritage of which industry, whose Monkwearmouth site it occupies?
Coal mining
Coal mining gave the ground both its name and its site: chairman Bob Murray chose the former Monkwearmouth Colliery, which had closed in December 1993, and named the stadium for the region's pit heritage.
Q 08At which Rio stadium did Pelé score his 1,000th career goal, against Vasco da Gama before 65,157 fans in 1969?
Maracanã
Maracanã hosted Pelé's milestone goal for Santos in 1969; a March 2021 vote by Rio de Janeiro's state legislature to rename the whole venue for him was vetoed by the governor weeks later, so it remains the Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho.
Q 09Which Johannesburg venue for the 2010 World Cup final was designed to resemble a calabash, the African gourd pot?
Soccer City
Soccer City, officially the FNB Stadium, sits on the edge of Soweto and saw Spain beat the Netherlands in the 2010 final; its mottled earth-toned cladding earned it the nickname 'The Calabash'.
Q 10Where were FA Cup finals played from 2001 to 2006, while Wembley was being rebuilt?
Millennium Stadium
Millennium Stadium in Cardiff also staged League Cup and play-off finals during those six seasons, making Wales the temporary home of English football's showpiece occasions.
Q 11What colour was the police horse that cleared Wembley's overrun pitch at the 1923 FA Cup final, the 'White Horse Final'?
Grey
Grey was the real colour of the horse that cleared the pitch; it only looked white in black-and-white photographs of a crowd estimated at up to 300,000, against an official attendance of 126,047.
Q 12Which club moved in 2016 to become anchor tenant of the stadium built for the London 2012 Olympics?
West Ham United
West Ham United became anchor tenants from the 2016 season of a ground rebuilt for multi-purpose use after the Games, sharing it with UK Athletics.
Q 13Which club played its 2023–24 and 2024–25 home games at the Montjuïc Olympic stadium while its own ground was rebuilt?
Barcelona
Q 21Which Rome stadium, rebuilt and roofed for the 1990 World Cup, is shared by Roma and Lazio?
Stadio Olimpico
Stadio Olimpico took its name in 1955 when Rome was awarded the 1960 Olympics; before the 1990 rebuild it was almost entirely unroofed apart from the Monte Mario grandstand.
Q 22Which Buenos Aires stadium, home of River Plate, hosted the 1978 World Cup final and is South America's largest?
Estadio Monumental
Estadio Monumental held 76,600 for the 1978 final, when its popular stands were standing-only, and after expansion now seats about 85,000, more than any other ground on the continent.
Q 23Which Montevideo stadium, built for the 1930 World Cup, is FIFA's only 'Historical Monument of World Football'?
Barcelona decamped to the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, the 1992 Olympic stadium and Espanyol's home from 1997 to 2009, for two seasons of the Spotify Camp Nou rebuild.
Q 14Which Mexico City stadium was the first to stage two World Cup finals, in 1970 and 1986?
Estadio Azteca
Estadio Azteca saw Brazil beat Italy 4–1 in 1970 and Argentina beat West Germany 3–2 in 1986, and its 2026 opening match made it the only ground used at three World Cups.
Q 15Which Moscow ground, centrepiece of the 1980 Olympics, hosted the opening match and final of the 2018 World Cup?
Luzhniki Stadium
Luzhniki Stadium also staged the 2008 Champions League final, when a temporary natural grass pitch was laid over its artificial surface, and the 1999 UEFA Cup final.
Q 16Which Saint-Denis stadium, opened for the 1998 World Cup, saw the hosts beat Brazil 3–0 in that tournament's final?
Stade de France
Stade de France went on to stage Rugby World Cup finals in 2007 and 2023, so the same ground has decided the world title in both codes.
Q 17The 2002 World Cup final, Ronaldo scoring twice against Germany, was played in which Japanese city?
Yokohama
Yokohama's International Stadium hosted the 30 June 2002 final, and Oliver Kahn called the fumble behind Ronaldo's opener his 'only mistake in the finals'.
Q 18Which ground, holding around 74,000, is the largest club football stadium in the United Kingdom?
Old Trafford
Old Trafford was laid out by Archibald Leitch for 100,000 in 1910 and, after extra tiers were added in the 1990s and 2000s, ranks as the eleventh-largest stadium in Europe.
Q 19Which airline's ten-year deal in July 2011 renamed the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester City's home?
Etihad Airways
Etihad Airways was already City's kit sponsor; the club had secured the naming rights in October 2010 by renegotiating its 250-year lease with the council for a fixed £3 million a year.
Q 20Which Lisbon club's ground, usually translated 'Stadium of Light', staged the Euro 2004 final?
Benfica
Benfica's Estádio da Luz is really named for the Luz neighbourhood, itself named after a church of Our Lady of Light, and it also hosted the 2014 and 2020 Champions League finals.
Estadio Centenario
Estadio Centenario was declared the first Historical Monument of World Football by FIFA on 18 July 1983 and remains the only building ever given that recognition; it staged ten matches of the 1930 World Cup, including the final.
Q 24What was the attendance for Scotland v England at Hampden Park in 1937, still a European record for an international?
149,415
149,415 packed in on 17 April 1937, when the SFA was allowed to issue only 150,000 tickets and thousands more got in without them; the ground's own infobox puts the crowd at 149,547.
Q 25Which Glasgow ground's exit stairway saw 66 deaths in a crush at the end of an Old Firm match in January 1971?
Ibrox
Ibrox's Stairway 13, the exit nearest Copland Road subway station, had already killed two people in a 1961 crush and injured more in 1967 and 1969; more than 200 were also injured on 2 January 1971.
Q 26The Estadio Nacional disaster of 24 May 1964, with an official toll of 328, happened in the capital of which country?
Peru
Peru was hosting Argentina at Lima's Estadio Nacional that day; the official toll of 328 makes it one of the deadliest incidents in the history of the sport.
Q 27Which Liverpool ground, England's first purpose-built football stadium in 1892, became Everton Women's home in 2025?
Goodison Park
Goodison Park opened with stands on three sides and passed to Everton Women when the men's team moved to the new Hill Dickinson Stadium in 2025. It also staged matches at the 1966 World Cup.
Q 28Which London ground's 1905 Johnny Haynes Stand is the oldest remaining in the Football League and Grade II listed?
Craven Cottage
Craven Cottage takes its name from a real cottage built in 1780 by the sixth Baron Craven; Archibald Leitch's 1905 pavilion, the present-day 'Cottage', is listed too.
Q 29Which Dutch ground, opened in 1996 as Ajax's new home, was renamed in 2018 for a footballer who had died in 2016?
Johan Cruyff Arena
Johan Cruyff Arena opened as the Amsterdam Arena and has a retractable roof; the original design had carried an athletics track and a fixed roof before capacity was cut to 50,000 seats.
Q 30How tall is the arch crowning the rebuilt Wembley Stadium, which structurally supports more than 75% of the roof load?
134 m
134 m high, the Wembley Arch doubles as a landmark visible across London, and the stadium it crowns opened on 9 March 2007 after the old ground was demolished.