Fulham Trivia
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47 free Fulham trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Fulham are London's oldest professional football club, born in a church Sunday school in 1879 and settled since 1896 in a ground that began as an 18th-century hunting cottage by the Thames. This quiz covers the whole story: the West London Amateur Cup, the third London club to turn professional, Henry Norris and how his refusal created Chelsea, the 6-0 semi-final, hot dogs in 1926, the 10-2 over Torquay, Johnny Haynes and his 657 games, Graham Leggat's three-minute hat-trick, Bobby Moore and Alan Mullery at Wembley in 1975, George Best, the 1987 QPR merger that Jimmy Hill stopped, goals-scored costing a title, Mohamed Al-Fayed's dream team, Keegan and Tigana's 101-point seasons, Loftus Road exile, the Intertoto Cup, Coleman's ninth place, Roy Hodgson's great escape and the run to Hamburg, the Michael Jackson statue, Shahid Khan, three play-off finals, Mitrović's century and Marco Silva. Early questions suit anyone who has watched the Boat Race from the Riverside; later ones are for Cottagers who know their Hammersmith End from their Putney End: which stand and pavilion are Grade II listed, which player was one of the first Britons to join Real Madrid, and how many penalties it took to beat Preston in 2024. Good for a supporters' club night or a west London pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the club and Craven Cottage, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01Fulham were founded in 1879 by worshippers at which West Kensington church?
St Andrew's
St Andrew's churchgoers, most of them handier at cricket, formed the side as a Sunday school team on Star Road; they dropped the church from the name about a decade later.
Q 02Which London rival's 2020 claim to an 1861 founding challenged Fulham's long-held title of the capital's oldest professional club?
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace traced themselves to an amateur side of the same name formed in 1861 and later put that year on their badge; historians dispute any unbroken link to the 1905 club, so Fulham, born in 1879, still claim the title.
Q 03Which right-back, who spent his whole career at Fulham, played every minute of England's 1966 World Cup win?
George Cohen
George Cohen played 459 times for his local club before a knee injury finished him at 29, three years after the final; his statue now stands at Craven Cottage.
Q 04Fulham's ground is named for a 1780 cottage built in woods that were once which Tudor queen's hunting grounds?
Anne Boleyn's
Anne Boleyn's old woods held the cottage until it burned down in May 1888 after years standing empty; Fulham found the site so overgrown in 1894 that it took two years to get a pitch ready.
Q 05Fulham's first ever Football League match, in September 1907, was a 1-0 home defeat to which club?
Hull City
The first win came days later at Derby's Baseball Ground.
Q 06Fulham's 6-0 defeat to Newcastle in 1908 remains a record margin for what?
An FA Cup semi-final
An FA Cup semi-final at Anfield ended the run: Fulham, in their first League season, had knocked out both Manchester clubs before Newcastle ran riot.
Q 07Fulham chairman Henry Norris refused to move his club to which ground, prompting its owner to found a rival?
Stamford Bridge
Stamford Bridge was an athletics ground that Gus Mears had bought to stage football; when Fulham said no, he founded Chelsea in a pub across the road in March 1905 to fill it.
Q 08In 1926 Fulham became the first British club to sell what at their ground?
Hot dogs
Hot dogs arrived in 1926 with some ceremony: a line of chefs carried them onto the pitch in metal buckets and handed them up to the terraces, and a Pathé newsreel caught the crowd snapping them up.
Q 09Which future England manager began his playing career at Fulham and was later sacked as the club's manager in 1968?
Bobby Robson
Bobby Robson left the Durham coalfield for Fulham in 1950, came back as manager in January 1968 and was dismissed within ten months; Ipswich then took a chance on him and his path to the England job began.
Q 10Fulham's record home crowd of 49,335 in October 1938 watched a Second Division match against which south-east London club?
Millwall
Millwall lost 2-1 to goals from Woodward and Evans, and the record still stands, since the ground now seats under 30,000.
Q 11Which Spanish club signed Fulham defender John Fox Watson in 1948, making him the first Scot to play for them?
Real Madrid
Real Madrid's English manager Mike Keeping, himself a Fulham old boy, brought him over as player-coach; Watson played a single league match, a 3-1 defeat by Celta Vigo in March 1949, before returning to English football.
Q 12When the maximum wage ended in 1961, Fulham paid Johnny Haynes how much a week?
£100
£100 a week was five times the £20 the maximum wage had allowed every player, and with his Brylcreem adverts it made Fulham's England captain the model of the modern star.
Q 13A 1962 car crash in which seaside resort ended the England career of Fulham's Johnny Haynes?
Blackpool
Q 21Why was Fulham's 1983 promotion decider at Derby abandoned after 88 minutes?
A pitch invasion
A pitch invasion by Derby fans came with under two minutes left and Fulham, 1-0 down, needing a win to go up; a spectator had already kicked Robert Wilson during play, yet the League refused a replay and the result stood.
Q 22Which former Fulham forward led the 1987 consortium that rescued the club from extinction?
Jimmy Hill
Jimmy Hill had played 297 games for Fulham and stayed on as chairman after the rescue; a qualified referee too, he once stepped in to run the line at Arsenal when a linesman was injured.
Q 23Which Championship club knocked Fulham out of the 2024 League Cup by winning a record 16-15 penalty shoot-out?
Blackpool's crash injured both his feet and a knee; England's captain in 22 matches fought back to play for Fulham until 1970 but was never picked for his country again.
Q 14Which club, champions of England in 1962, did Fulham beat 10-1 on Boxing Day 1963?
Ipswich Town
Ipswich Town had sunk to the bottom inside two years of their title; Graham Leggat hit three in about three minutes, the fastest top-flight hat-trick for half a century, in what is still Fulham's record win.
Q 15In 1962 Fulham became the last First Division club to do what?
Install floodlights
Install floodlights they finally did in September 1962, and Maurice Cook marked the first night under them with a hat-trick in a 4-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday.
Q 16Bottom of the table in February 1966, Fulham survived after hiring which coach, later an FA Cup winner as Chelsea manager?
Dave Sexton
Dave Sexton arrived in January with Fulham sinking; a 2-0 win over champions-elect Liverpool lit the fuse, and nine wins and two draws from the last 13 games kept them up.
Q 17Fulham's only FA Cup final, in 1975, was lost 2-0 to which club?
West Ham United
West Ham United won it with two Alan Taylor goals, beating a Second Division side marshalled by Bobby Moore, who had captained the Hammers for a decade; Fulham had needed a record 11 games to get to Wembley.
Q 18Which annual sporting event passes Fulham's Craven Cottage, whose Riverside Stand became an official fan zone for it in 2024?
The Boat Race
The Boat Race starts just downstream at Putney, so both crews row past the ground early in the course; the first Riverside Stand opened in 1972 with a friendly against Eusébio's Benfica.
Q 19The rugby league club Fulham founded in 1980 dropped the Harlequins name for the 2012 season and readopted which one?
London Broncos
London Broncos began as chairman Ernie Clay's new income stream: almost 10,000 saw them beat mighty Wigan 24-5 in September 1980, but the football club cut ties four years on.
Q 20Fulham's all-time record scorer, with 178 goals over two spells, is who?
Gordon Davies
'Ivor' Davies signed in 1978; the record still stands.
Preston North End
Preston North End won it with the 34th kick: the first 16 penalties all went in, and at 15-15 Timothy Castagne blazed over before Ryan Ledson, who had scored in normal time, sent the keeper the wrong way.
Q 24In 1996-97 Fulham finished second to Wigan on the same points because the League ranked teams how?
By goals scored
By goals scored, Wigan's 84 beat Fulham's 72 after both finished on 87 points; on goal difference, the tie-break used today, Fulham's +34 would have pipped Wigan's +33 and made them champions.
Q 25Mohamed Al-Fayed, who bought Fulham in 1997, also owned which famous London department store?
Harrods
Harrods money rebuilt a third-tier club: Al-Fayed promised top-flight football within five seasons and delivered it in four, and he sold the Knightsbridge store in 2010, three years before he sold Fulham.
Q 26Al-Fayed's 1997 Fulham 'dream team' paired chief operating officer Kevin Keegan with which former England captain as manager?
Ray Wilkins
Ray Wilkins spent on a scale the third tier had never seen yet only scraped into the play-offs, and was sacked days before the semi-final with Grimsby; Keegan picked the team himself and lost over two legs.
Q 27Which French manager, a Euro 1984 winner as a player, won his first 11 league games in charge of Fulham in 2000?
Jean Tigana
Jean Tigana, the former Monaco coach, turned that start into the title: Louis Saha's 27 goals carried Fulham to 101 points and ended the club's 33-year wait for top-flight football.
Q 28Who was the only player to appear for Fulham in all four divisions during their rise?
Sean Davis
Chris Coleman's playing career ended after a 2001 car crash; he later managed the club to ninth.
Q 29Fulham spent two seasons from 2002 playing home games at which west London ground while Craven Cottage was made all-seater?
Loftus Road
Loftus Road, QPR's home, was meant as a stopgap while a 30,000-seat stadium rose by the Thames; residents' legal action helped sink that plan, and Fulham went home in 2004 to old terraces with seats bolted on.
Q 30Fulham won the 2002 Intertoto Cup by beating which club from Italy's Emilia-Romagna region 5-3 on aggregate?
Bologna
Bologna had drawn the first leg 2-2, but Junichi Inamoto, Japan's World Cup star released by Arsenal that summer, scored a hat-trick inside 50 minutes of the return to send Fulham into the UEFA Cup for the first time.