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57 free Premier League trivia questions with answers. The Premier League has been running since 1992, and it has generated more pub arguments per season than any competition on earth. This quiz covers the lot: the breakaway from the Football League and the Sky deal that funded it, Blackburn's one title, Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten run, Leicester's 5000/1 miracle, and the Agüero moment that decided a title on goal difference. The records section is where it gets hard. Who has the most red cards? Which goalkeeper has 202 clean sheets? Who scored a hat-trick in under three minutes? If you can get those, you are ready for any quiz night. Every answer has been checked against a primary reference and each question carries its citation, so if a mate insists Shearer's world-record move was £12 million, you can settle it on the spot.
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Q 01In which year did First Division clubs break from the Football League to found the FA Premier League?
1992
The 22 clubs resigned from the Football League en masse on 27 May and the first season kicked off that August.
Q 02Which broadcaster won the first Premier League live rights with a £304 million, five-year bid?
BSkyB
Greg Dyke of LWT had helped create the league, but ITV lost the bidding war and the BBC settled for Match of the Day highlights.
Q 03Who scored the very first Premier League goal, on 15 August 1992?
Brian Deane
His header for Sheffield United came in a 2-1 win over Manchester United, who then went on to win that inaugural title anyway.
Q 04How many clubs played in the inaugural 1992-93 Premier League season?
22
The division was cut to 20 for 1995-96 by relegating four and promoting two.
Q 05Which of these clubs has NOT played in every Premier League season since 1992?
Aston Villa
Only six ever-presents remain: Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham.
Q 06Which lager brand was the league's first title sponsor, from 1993 to 2001?
Carling
The first season had no sponsor at all; Barclaycard and then Barclays followed until 2016, when the league went sponsor-free on purpose.
Q 07Who is the Premier League's all-time record goalscorer, with 260 goals?
Alan Shearer
He is also the only player to score 100 Premier League goals for two different clubs, Blackburn and Newcastle.
Q 08What world-record fee took the league's future record scorer from Blackburn to Newcastle in 1996?
£15m
He turned down Manchester United to sign for Kevin Keegan's side, and won a third straight Golden Boot in his first season there.
Q 09Which club won the Premier League in 1994-95, the only title in its history?
Blackburn Rovers
Local steel magnate Jack Walker bankrolled the side and installed Kenny Dalglish as manager; four years later they were relegated.
Q 10Which manager, appointed by Jack Walker in 1991, led Blackburn Rovers to the 1994-95 title?
Kenny Dalglish
He then moved upstairs to Director of Football and handed the team to his assistant, Ray Harford.
Q 11At what pre-season odds did bookmakers price Leicester City to win the 2015-16 Premier League?
5000/1
They were confirmed champions on 2 May 2016 when Tottenham could only draw at Chelsea, the first top-flight title in the club's history.
Q 12Jamie Vardy set which Premier League record during Leicester's title-winning season?
Most consecutive matches scored in
He scored in 11 straight games between August and November 2015; Ruud van Nistelrooy had held the record at 10.
Q 13Which club was Jamie Vardy playing for before Leicester paid a non-League record £1 million for him in 2012?
Fleetwood Town
Q 21Sadio Mané scored the fastest Premier League hat-trick in May 2015. How long did it take him?
2 minutes 56 seconds
He was playing for Southampton; Robbie Fowler's 4-minute-33-second treble had stood as the record since 1994.
Q 22Which player scored in each of the first 21 Premier League seasons and holds the record for most assists?
Ryan Giggs
He also collected a record 13 Premier League winner's medals, all with Manchester United.
Q 23Which goalkeeper holds the record for most Premier League clean sheets, with 202?
Petr Čech
He kept 24 in the 2004-05 season alone as Chelsea conceded just 15 goals, another record.
Released by Sheffield Wednesday at 16, he once earned £120 a week at Stocksbridge while working in a factory making medical splints.
Q 14Arsenal's 2003-04 'Invincibles' went the whole league season unbeaten. What was their record?
26 wins, 12 draws
The Premier League struck them a golden replica trophy, and the unbeaten run eventually stretched to 49 games.
Q 15How many league games did Arsenal's record unbeaten run stretch to before it ended in October 2004?
49
It ended at Old Trafford in the ill-tempered 'Battle of the Buffet', where a young Wayne Rooney won a disputed penalty.
Q 16Which manager's side became the first to reach 100 points in a Premier League season, in 2017-18?
Pep Guardiola
They also set records for wins (32), goals (106) and goal difference (+79) that year, and won the title by 19 points.
Q 17Which club's 11 points in 2007-08 is the fewest ever in a 38-game Premier League season?
Derby County
They won once all season, equalling a 108-year-old Football League record set by Loughborough, and were relegated in March.
Q 18Who holds the Premier League appearance record, having played every season since 2002-03?
James Milner
He debuted for Leeds as a 16-year-old in November 2002 and also holds the record for most appearances as a substitute.
Q 19How many goals did Erling Haaland score in 2022–23, a 38-game Premier League record?
36
He also scored 52 in all competitions that season as City won the treble, beating Mohamed Salah's previous 38-game mark of 32.
Q 20Which player has scored the most Premier League hat-tricks, with 12?
Sergio Agüero
Shearer holds the single-season record with five for Blackburn in 1995-96.
Q 24Who scored the fastest goal in Premier League history, timed at 7.69 seconds?
Shane Long
He was playing for Southampton at Watford in April 2019, and beat Ledley King's 2000 record of 9.82 seconds.
Q 25Which manager holds the record for the most Premier League matches managed, with 828?
Arsène Wenger
He passed Ferguson's 810 in his final season at Arsenal, ending a spell of 21 years and 224 days at one club.
Q 26Manchester United's 1998-99 side was the first English club to win which trio of trophies in one season?
League, FA Cup, Champions League
The Champions League leg came via two stoppage-time goals against Bayern Munich in Barcelona.
Q 27The 2011-12 stoppage-time winner against QPR gave Manchester City their first title since which year?
1968
United had already finished their game at Sunderland 1-0 up and thought they were champions; the title was decided on goal difference alone.
Q 28Sheikh Mansour bought Manchester City in 2008 through a group based in which emirate?
Abu Dhabi
The FA Cup arrived in 2011 and the first Premier League title a year later; the club became the flagship of the City Football Group.
Q 29Manchester City's four in a row from 2020-21 to 2023-24 broke which English record?
Most consecutive top-flight championships
No club had ever won four in a row in the English top flight; Huddersfield, Arsenal, Liverpool and United had all stalled at three.
Q 30Liverpool's 2019-20 title, its first of the Premier League era, ended a wait of how many years?
30
Klopp's side clinched it with seven games to spare, the earliest any Premier League title has been decided.