Inter Milan Trivia
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49 free Inter Milan trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Internazionale was born in 1908 when a group of players walked out of the Milan Cricket and Football Club because they wanted to sign foreigners. More than a century later it is the only Italian club never to have been relegated, a three-time European champion and the only Italian side to win the treble. This 49-question quiz runs from that founding night to the 2025-26 double. You will meet Giuseppe Meazza and the Ambrosiana years, Helenio Herrera's Grande Inter and its back-to-back European Cups, the Scudetto dei Record of 1989, the UEFA Cup-winning 1990s, Ronaldo and Zanetti, Mourinho's 2010 treble, and the ownership changes from the Morattis to Oaktree. There are questions on the colours, the Biscione, the ultras and the Derby d'Italia too. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone, share your score, or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01What has Inter alone in Italy never suffered?
Relegation
Relegation. Founded in 1908, Inter has played in the top division every season since its debut in 1909, surviving even 1922, when it finished last in its group and stayed up through play-offs.
Q 02Inter split from the Milan Cricket and Football Club in 1908 over what issue?
Signing foreign players
Signing foreign players. The rebels wanted a club open to foreigners as well as Italians, named it Internazionale to say so, and made a Swiss, Hernst Marktl, its first captain.
Q 03Inter's 20th league title, in 2024, earned which shirt emblem?
Second star
Second star. Italian clubs add a star to the shirt for every ten league titles, and Inter clinched its 20th by beating its city rivals, AC Milan.
Q 04Inter's nickname 'Il Biscione' refers to which creature from Milan's old coat of arms?
A serpent
A serpent. The biscione, a snake with a human figure in its jaws, was the emblem of the Visconti rulers of Milan, which is why it also appears on the Alfa Romeo badge.
Q 05Forced to merge by the Fascist regime in 1928, Inter spent years playing under which name?
Ambrosiana
Ambrosiana, after St Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan. The regime wanted the internationalist name gone, but supporters kept saying Inter, and the old name came back after the war.
Q 06By what name is Inter's derby against AC Milan known?
Derby della Madonnina
Derby della Madonnina. The statue of the Virgin Mary on top of Milan Cathedral gives the fixture its name, and the two clubs have shared one stadium since 1947.
Q 07Which company's name was on Inter's shirts for 26 years, from 1995 to 2021?
Pirelli
Pirelli. The Milanese tyre maker stayed on Inter's shirt for a quarter of a century, although it was Piero Pirelli, as chairman of rivals AC Milan, who had built San Siro in 1926.
Q 08Who is Inter's all-time top scorer?
Giuseppe Meazza
Giuseppe Meazza. He scored more than 280 goals for the club, also spent two seasons with AC Milan, and the stadium the rivals share now carries his name.
Q 09Which owner bought Inter in May 1955 and went on to build the Grande Inter?
Angelo Moratti
Angelo Moratti. The oil tycoon hired Helenio Herrera in 1960 and won two European Cups; his son Massimo bought the club in 1995 and added a third in 2010.
Q 10Helenio Herrera joined Inter in 1960 from which club?
Barcelona
Barcelona. He had won two Spanish titles there, but the club sacked him after a European Cup semi-final defeat to its great rivals in 1960, and he took his methods to Milan.
Q 11By what nickname was Inter's coach Helenio Herrera known?
Il Mago
Il Mago, 'the Wizard'. Herrera became as famous as his players, psyching them up before matches at a time when coaches stayed in the background.
Q 12Which Spanish midfielder, the 1960 Ballon d'Or winner, did Herrera bring to Inter?
Luis Suárez
Luis Suárez. Inter made him the world's most expensive player in 1961 to reunite him with Herrera, and he became the playmaker of the side that won two European Cups.
Q 13Which coach led Inter to the 2024 Scudetto and to Champions League finals in 2023 and 2025?
Simone Inzaghi
Simone Inzaghi. Hired in 2021 when the title-winning coach walked out, he stayed four seasons and left by mutual consent three days after losing the 2025 final.
Q 21Signings of Beckenbauer and Eusébio were cancelled after Italy's 1966 World Cup exit to which team?
North Korea
North Korea. The 1–0 defeat so shamed Italy that its federation closed the league to new foreign signings, and the two stars' contracts with Inter were torn up.
Q 22Which striker led Serie A with 24 goals in Inter's 1971 title season?
Roberto Boninsegna
Roberto Boninsegna. Inter had let him go as a youth player and bought him back from Cagliari in 1969; he repaid the club by leading the league's scorers two seasons running.
Q 23Which Argentine striker was Serie A's top scorer when Inter won its 20th league title in 2024?
Lautaro Martínez
Q 14In Herrera's catenaccio, which role did captain Armando Picchi play?
A sweeper, or libero
A sweeper, or libero. Picchi arrived as a right-back and was moved behind four man-markers, free to deal with any attacker who broke through.
Q 15Inter beat which club 3–1 in the 1964 European Cup final in Vienna?
Real Madrid
Real Madrid. Sandro Mazzola scored twice in Vienna against a club playing its seventh final in nine years, and Inter were champions of Europe at their first attempt.
Q 16Which two-time winner did Inter beat in the 1965 European Cup final, played at home?
Benfica
Benfica. Jair's shot three minutes before half-time was the only goal, and Inter had needed to overturn a 3–1 first-leg defeat at Liverpool just to reach the final.
Q 17Inter lost the 1967 European Cup final in Lisbon to which club?
Celtic
Celtic. Mazzola's early penalty put Inter ahead, but a team of players all born within 30 miles of Glasgow came back to win 2–1 with two second-half goals.
Q 18Which club beat Inter 2–0 in the 1972 European Cup final in Rotterdam?
Ajax
Ajax. Johan Cruyff scored both goals in the second half as the Dutch champions kept the trophy they had won for the first time a year earlier.
Q 19Which winger, famed for his 'dead leaf' free kicks, scored the winner in Inter's 1964 Intercontinental Cup play-off?
Mario Corso
Mario Corso. With the tie level after two legs, a play-off in Madrid went to extra time before his goal made Inter the first Italian club to be world champions.
Q 20Which shirt number did Inter retire in 2006 in honour of Giacinto Facchetti?
3
3. Facchetti wore it for 18 seasons as Inter's attacking left-back and was the club's chairman when he died in September 2006, so the shirt was withdrawn within days.
Lautaro Martínez. He scored 24 league goals that season, and his late strike against Napoli had already won Inter the Italian Super Cup final in January.
Q 24Which defender spent a record 20 seasons at Inter after debuting aged 16 in 1980?
Giuseppe Bergomi
Giuseppe Bergomi. Team-mates called the teenager 'Lo Zio', the Uncle, for the moustache he already wore, and at 18 he was a World Cup winner with Italy.
Q 25Who coached Inter to the record-breaking 1989 Scudetto dei Record?
Giovanni Trapattoni
Giovanni Trapattoni. Two West Germans signed the previous summer drove a side that took 58 of a possible 68 points and finished 11 clear of Maradona's Napoli.
Q 26Which Inter player won the first ever FIFA World Player of the Year award in 1991?
Lothar Matthäus
Lothar Matthäus. He had captained West Germany to the 1990 World Cup, and his penalty in the 1991 UEFA Cup final helped Inter to its first European trophy since 1965.
Q 27Which Inter goalkeeper was IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper three years running, 1989–91?
Walter Zenga
Walter Zenga. Fans called him 'l'Uomo Ragno', Spider-Man, and he later took time out from football to act in an Italian soap opera before turning to coaching.
Q 28Inter's third UEFA Cup win, in 1998, was a 3–0 final victory over which club?
Lazio
Lazio. It was the first UEFA Cup final decided in a single match on neutral ground, and three different South Americans scored Inter's goals.
Q 29Inter paid a world-record fee in 1997 for which striker, then broke the record again for Christian Vieri?
Ronaldo
Ronaldo. The Brazilian cost more than any player before him, and within a year he was man of the match as Inter won the UEFA Cup final.
Q 30Which Argentine joined Inter from Banfield in 1995 and stayed 19 seasons?
Javier Zanetti
Javier Zanetti. He played a club-record 858 games, captained the treble winners, and when he retired in 2014 the club withdrew his number 4 shirt.