Serie A Trivia
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60 free Serie a trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Serie A has been played as a national league since 1929, and the Italian championship goes back to a single afternoon in Turin in 1898. This quiz covers the whole span: Genoa's early titles, Ambrosiana winning the first Serie A, the Grande Torino, Gunnar Nordahl's five scoring titles, Bologna's play-off in 1964, Verona's miracle in 1985, Maradona's Napoli, Sacchi and Capello's Milan, the Calciopoli scandal that sent Juventus to Serie B, Inter's treble and Juventus's nine consecutive scudetti. There are questions on the trophy and the shield, the capocannoniere award, the derbies of Milan, Rome and Italy, and the record holders: Silvio Piola's 274 goals, Francesco Totti's 250 and 162 assists, Gianluigi Buffon's ten titles and 299 clean sheets, Paolo Maldini's 25 seasons, Giovanni Trapattoni's seven titles as a coach and Rafael Leão's 6.2-second goal. If you want the continental picture, our Champions League quiz picks up where this one leaves off. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who watches Italian football, a third are medium and the rest are for people who know which club has spent the most seasons in Serie B. Every answer is checked against the league's reference and record pages, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01In which season was Serie A established as a national round-robin league?
1929-30
Serie A began in 1929-30 as a single national division of 18 clubs, replacing the regional groups of the old Italian Football Championship; Serie B started the same season.
Q 02Which club won the first Italian Football Championship, played in Turin in a single day in 1898?
Genoa
Genoa won the final 2-1 on 8 May 1898 and went on to win five of the first six championships, interrupted only by Milan in 1901.
Q 03Which name did Internazionale carry when they won the inaugural Serie A season?
Ambrosiana
Forced to merge with Unione Sportiva Milanese in 1928, Inter were renamed Ambrosiana, a Fascist-era name dropped in 1945; fans went on calling the team Inter throughout.
Q 04Which is the only club to have played in every Serie A season?
Inter Milan
Inter Milan are the only club never relegated from the top flight, present in every season since their debut in 1909-10.
Q 05The 'scudetto' worn by champions the following season means what in Italian?
Little shield
Scudetto means 'little shield': a small tricolour shield sewn on the champions' shirts the following season, first worn in 1924.
Q 06Which Italian poet is generally credited with inventing the scudetto?
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio, who had seized Fiume in 1919, had a tricolour shield sewn on the shirts of an Italian military team for a match there in February 1920.
Q 07The FIGC awards a star to be worn on the shirt for every how many championships?
Ten
Juventus wear three stars for their 36 titles; Inter and Milan wear two each.
Q 08How many Italian championships had Juventus won by the end of the 2019-20 season?
36
Juventus had 36 Italian championships after winning the 2019-20 title; Inter and Milan were next with 18 each at that point.
Q 09The Coppa Campioni d'Italia trophy has been awarded to the Serie A champion since which season?
1960-61
Sculptor Ettore Calvelli made the Coppa Campioni d'Italia in 1960; it stands on a base of blue sodalite and went first to the 1960-61 champions, Juventus.
Q 10How many clubs have played in Serie A since the 2004-05 season?
20
Serie A expanded from 18 to 20 clubs for 2004-05, giving each club 38 matches a season; the league had been 18 strong since 1988-89.
Q 11Why was the 1947-48 Serie A season played with an unusual 21 teams?
Post-war tensions with Yugoslavia
Triestina, relegated on the pitch in 1947, were kept in Serie A because of post-war tensions with Yugoslavia over Trieste, making 21 teams.
Q 12If the first half of a Serie A season is the andata, what is the second?
Ritorno
The second half is the ritorno, the return leg of every fixture; the two halves used the same order until an asymmetrical calendar arrived in 2021-22.
Q 13The only play-off ever needed to decide the Serie A champion, in 1963-64, was won by which club?
Bologna
Bologna and Inter finished level on 54 points, and Bologna won the one-off decider 2-0 at Rome's Stadio Olimpico on 7 June 1964.
Q 21How many of their 38 games did Juventus win in their record-breaking 2013-14 season?
33
Juventus won 33, drew three and lost two of their 38 games in 2013-14 for a record 102 points, winning all 19 home matches.
Q 22Which club went through the 2011-12 Serie A season unbeaten?
Juventus
Juventus won the 2011-12 title without losing a match, 23 wins and 15 draws, in Antonio Conte's first season in charge.
Q 23AC Milan's 58-match unbeaten run from 1991 to 1993 earned the team what nickname?
The Invincibles
Fabio Capello's Milan were nicknamed The Invincibles for going 58 league games unbeaten; the run started and ended with defeats by Parma, in May 1991 and March 1993.
Q 14Since which season have Serie A wins been worth three points instead of two?
1994-95
Three points for a win arrived in Serie A in 1994-95, thirteen years after the English Football League made the switch in 1981.
Q 15Which oil company became Serie A's title sponsor in 2024, giving the league its 'Enilive' name?
Eni
Eni's fuel and mobility arm Enilive took over from 2024-25, replacing TIM, the phone company that had sponsored the league since 1998.
Q 16Which UK broadcaster showed Serie A as 'Football Italia' from 1992 to 2002, making it a British cult?
Channel 4
Channel 4's Football Italia, fronted by James Richardson, ran from 1992 to 2002 and made Sunday-afternoon Serie A a British ritual.
Q 17The 2004-05 title was revoked from Juventus after which scandal?
Calciopoli
Calciopoli, the 2006 wiretap scandal over influencing referee appointments, cost Juventus the 2004-05 title, for which no champion is recorded.
Q 18Which Juventus general manager's wiretapped calls were at the centre of the 2006 refereeing scandal?
Luciano Moggi
Luciano Moggi's wiretapped calls to the officials who appointed referees were the core of the 2006 case; he was later banned from football for life.
Q 19Which goalkeeper stayed with Juventus for their 2006-07 Serie B season, making 37 appearances?
Gianluigi Buffon
He had joined from Parma in 2001 for a world-record goalkeeper fee of €52.9 million.
Q 20How many consecutive Serie A titles did Juventus win in their record run ending in 2020?
Nine
Giorgio Chiellini played in all nine, the most consecutive titles by any player.
Q 24Which entrepreneur bought AC Milan in 1986, saved it from bankruptcy and hired Arrigo Sacchi?
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi bought the near-bankrupt club in 1986, hired Arrigo Sacchi from Parma in 1987 and signed Gullit, Van Basten and Rijkaard; Sacchi's first scudetto came in 1987-88.
Q 25AC Milan was founded in 1899 by an expatriate from which country?
England
Herbert Kilpin, from Nottingham in England, founded the club in December 1899 and chose red for fire and black for the fear the team would strike into opponents.
Q 26Football Club Internazionale was formed in 1908 by a group who left Milan over what issue?
Accepting foreigners
The name Internazionale advertised the point: the breakaway club was founded on accepting foreigners, unlike the Milan Cricket and Football Club they had left.
Q 27The Milan derby is named after which landmark?
The statue on the cathedral
The Derby della Madonnina takes its name from the statue on the cathedral: the gilded Madonnina that has topped Milan's Duomo since 1774.
Q 28The Derby d'Italia between Inter and Juventus was named in 1967 by which journalist?
Gianni Brera
Gianni Brera, Italy's most famous sports writer, coined 'Derby d'Italia' in 1967 for Inter against Juventus, two clubs with supporters all over the country.
Q 29In the Rome derby, which end of the Stadio Olimpico do Lazio's ultras traditionally occupy?
Curva Nord
Lazio's ultras fill the Curva Nord while their city rivals take the Curva Sud; the sfottò, teasing about each other's origins, is part of the ritual.
Q 30Who is Serie A's all-time top scorer with 274 goals?
Silvio Piola
He is also the only player to be the record scorer for three different clubs: Pro Vercelli, Lazio and Novara.