Premier League Trivia
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58 free Premier League trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
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 01Which club finished bottom of the inaugural Premier League table?
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest finished bottom with 40 points in the inaugural season, and Brian Clough retired after 18 years in charge.
Q 02Which broadcaster won the first Premier League live rights with a £304 million, five-year bid?
BSkyB
BSkyB paid £304 million for five seasons of live rights, outbidding ITV; the BBC took the Match of the Day highlights package.
Q 03Who scored the very first Premier League goal, on 15 August 1992?
Brian Deane
Brian Deane headed in after five minutes against Manchester United and added a second-half penalty in the 2-1 win.
Q 04How many clubs played in the inaugural 1992-93 Premier League season?
22
22 clubs played in the inaugural season; 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
Aston Villa were relegated in 2016 and spent three seasons in the Championship; the other three clubs have played every Premier League season.
Q 06Which lager brand was the league's first title sponsor, from 1993 to 2001?
Carling
Carling's deal made it the FA Carling Premiership from 1993 to 2001; the first season had no title sponsor, and Barclaycard then Barclays followed until 2016.
Q 07Who is the Premier League's all-time record goalscorer, with 260 goals?
Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer finished with 260 Premier League goals and is the only player to reach 100 for two different clubs.
Q 08What world-record fee took the league's future record scorer from Blackburn to Newcastle in 1996?
£15m
The £15m fee was a world record in July 1996; he turned down Manchester United for Kevin Keegan's side and won a third straight Golden Boot that season.
Q 09Which club won the Premier League in 1994-95, the only title in its history?
Blackburn Rovers
Blackburn Rovers, bankrolled by steel magnate Jack Walker, pipped Manchester United by a point on the final day in 1995 and were relegated four years later.
Q 10Which manager, appointed by Jack Walker in 1991, won the 1994-95 Premier League title?
Kenny Dalglish
Kenny Dalglish moved upstairs to Director of Football after the title 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
Leicester were 5000/1 before the season; they were confirmed champions on 2 May 2016 when their closest rivals could only draw at Chelsea.
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 21How long did Sadio Mané take to score the fastest Premier League hat-trick in May 2015?
2 minutes 56 seconds
Mané's 2 minutes 56 seconds came 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
Ryan Giggs scored in the first 21 seasons and finished with 162 assists, a record, all for Manchester United.
Q 23Which goalkeeper holds the record for most Premier League clean sheets, with 202?
Petr Čech
Petr Čech finished with 202 clean sheets, including 24 in 2004-05 alone as Chelsea conceded just 15 goals, another record.
Fleetwood Town sold him in May 2012 after his 31 league goals won them the Conference title; he had been released by Sheffield Wednesday at 16.
Q 14What was the win-draw record of Arsenal's unbeaten 2003-04 'Invincibles' league season?
26 wins, 12 draws
Arsenal's record was 26 wins, 12 draws and no defeats for 90 points, and the Premier League struck them a golden replica trophy.
Q 15How many league games did Arsenal's record unbeaten run stretch to before it ended in October 2004?
49
The run ended at 49 games 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
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City reached 100 points in 2017-18, also setting records for wins (32), goals (106) and goal difference (+79).
Q 17Which club's 11 points in 2007-08 is the fewest ever in a 38-game Premier League season?
Derby County
Derby County won just once all season, equalling a 108-year-old Football League record set by Loughborough, and were relegated in March.
Q 18Which player has made the most Premier League appearances as a substitute?
James Milner
James Milner has come off the bench more often than anyone in Premier League history, after debuting for Leeds as a 16-year-old in November 2002.
Q 19How many goals did Erling Haaland score in 2022–23, a 38-game Premier League record?
36
Haaland's 36 league goals beat the previous 38-game record of 32 set in 2017-18; he scored 52 in all competitions as City won the treble.
Q 20Who was the first player to reach 12 Premier League hat-tricks?
Sergio Agüero
Sergio Agüero reached 12 hat-tricks in January 2020, passing the previous record of 11, all of them for Manchester City.
Q 24Who scored the fastest goal in Premier League history, timed at 7.69 seconds?
Shane Long
Shane Long's 7.69-second strike for Southampton at Watford in April 2019 beat Ledley King's 2000 record of 9.82 seconds.
Q 25Manchester 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 trio was League, FA Cup, Champions League; the last leg came via two stoppage-time goals against Bayern Munich in Barcelona.
Q 26The 2011-12 stoppage-time winner against QPR gave Manchester City their first title since which year?
1968
City's last title before 2012 had come in 1968; United had already won their final game 1-0 and thought they were champions, but both finished on 89 points and goal difference decided it.
Q 27Sheikh Mansour bought Manchester City in 2008 through a group based in which emirate?
Abu Dhabi
The Abu Dhabi United Group completed the takeover in September 2008; the FA Cup arrived in 2011 and the first Premier League title a year later.
Q 28Manchester 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 29Liverpool's 2019-20 title, its first of the Premier League era, ended a wait of how many years?
30
The wait was 30 years, from the 1989-90 title; Klopp's side clinched it with seven games to spare, the earliest any Premier League title has been decided.
Q 30Excluding debt, what did Abramovich pay for Chelsea's shares in June 2003?
£60m
The shares cost £60m at 35p each, with Abramovich also taking on around £80m of debt; two seasons later Chelsea won a first league title in 50 years with 95 points.