Football Stadiums Trivia
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49 free Football Stadiums trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 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 49 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 01Which 2022 World Cup venue was built from recycled shipping containers?
Stadium 974
Stadium 974 is named for its 974 containers, a number that is also Qatar's dialling code, and it was the first World Cup ground designed to be fully dismantled.
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 seats replaced benches in a 2014 refit, and it stages North Korea's Mass Games far more often than football.
Q 04Which Munich stadium, host of the 2006 World Cup's opening match, has an inflated plastic skin that changes colour?
Allianz Arena
Allianz Arena glows red for Bayern and shone blue for 1860 Munich, who sold their half of the ground to Bayern in 2006 to ease a financial crisis and left in 2017.
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 had already staged the 1990 World Cup's opening ceremony, and the Olympic night was a late bow: Inter and AC Milan bought the ground in 2025 and it is due to be demolished once they build a replacement.
Q 07Sunderland's Stadium of Light takes its name from the heritage of which industry, whose Monkwearmouth site it occupies?
Coal mining
Coal mining ended on the site in 1993, and the name recalls the Davy lamps Wearmouth's miners carried underground: a giant one stands at the stadium entrance.
Q 08At which Rio stadium did Pelé score his 1,000th career goal, a penalty for Santos against Vasco da Gama in 1969?
Maracanã
Maracanã's crowd mobbed Pelé and carried him around the pitch after the penalty, and he used the moment to ask Brazil to help its poorest children.
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, hosted Nelson Mandela's first Johannesburg rally after his release in 1990, and he made his last public appearance there at the 2010 final.
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 left Upton Park, their home since 1904, to move in, and the old ground was demolished for redevelopment within a year.
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 also saw Maradona score both the 'Hand of God' goal and the 'Goal of the Century' in one 1986 quarter-final, and in 2026 it became the first 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 staged the final, while Tokyo, the obvious guess, hosted no matches at all at the 2002 World Cup.
Q 18Which ground, holding around 74,000, is the largest club football stadium in the United Kingdom?
Old Trafford
Old Trafford was bombed in the Second World War, so Manchester United played their home games at rival City's Maine Road until 1949.
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 shirt sponsor; the club had won the right to sell the name in 2010 by renegotiating its lease with the council, which still owns the ground.
Q 20Which Portuguese 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 not ready when its own World Cup began: rain delayed the work, so the first games were played at two smaller club grounds.
Q 24Which ground drew more than 149,000 for Scotland v England in 1937, still a European record for an international?
Hampden Park
Hampden Park was then the biggest stadium in the world, and thousands more got in without tickets on top of the 150,000 the SFA was allowed to sell.
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 had a late equaliser against Argentina disallowed in Lima; fans ran on, police fired tear gas into the stands and the fleeing crowd was crushed against closed exit gates.
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 surviving stand in English professional football 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 and took its present name in 2018?
Johan Cruyff Arena
Johan Cruyff Arena was the Amsterdam Arena until it was renamed for the Ajax great after his death in 2016; it began as an Olympic design with a running track for the city's failed 1992 bid.
Q 30What replaced the Twin Towers as the signature landmark of the rebuilt Wembley Stadium, opened in 2007?
A steel arch
A steel arch more than 130 metres high crowns the new Wembley, and it is not just for show: it holds up most of the roof.