Tottenham Hotspur Trivia
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49 free Tottenham Hotspur trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Tottenham Hotspur were formed by cricket-club schoolboys in 1882, named after a Shakespearean rebel, and became the only non-League club to win the FA Cup since the League began. This quiz covers the whole story: Bobby Buckle and John Ripsher, the misdelivered post that forced a name change, the Southern League title, the 1901 Cup, Peter McWilliam, Arthur Rowe's push and run and the 1951 title, Danny Blanchflower, Bill Nicholson's Double and the first British European trophy, Jimmy Greaves, the 1972 UEFA Cup, Ardiles and Villa, Irving Scholar's flotation, Venables and Sugar, Gazza and Lineker's 1991 Cup, ENIC, Redknapp, Pochettino's Champions League final, the Wembley years and the new stadium, Kane's record, Postecoglou's Europa League and the managerial churn that followed. Early questions suit anyone who has sung 'Glory Glory'; later ones are for Lilywhites who know their Paxton Road from their Park Lane: what colours the 'Tottenham Reds' wore, why the cockerel is on the badge, who cast the original bronze bird, and how the 'angels' of 1961 gave the fans their anthem. Good for a supporters' club night or a north London pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the club, its grounds and its records, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01The schoolboys who formed Hotspur Football Club in 1882 were members of what?
A cricket team of the same name
The founders were members of the Hotspur Cricket Club, a cricket team of the same name, and wanted a winter sport; the name honours Harry Hotspur of the Northumberland Percy family.
Q 02In which year did Tottenham Hotspur turn professional?
1895
Tottenham turned professional on 20 December 1895, a move that let the club pay players and join the Southern League the following year.
Q 03Which Bible class teacher at All Hallows Church became Spurs' first president and treasurer in 1883?
John Ripsher
John Ripsher, the Bible class teacher the founders attended, reorganised the club in 1883, became its first president and treasurer and found it meeting rooms through its formative years.
Q 04Spurs' first recorded match, in September 1882, was a 2-0 defeat to a local team called what?
The Radicals
The Radicals beat the new club 2-0 on 30 September 1882 in its first recorded match; the first competitive win, 5-2 over St Albans in the London Association Cup, came in 1885.
Q 05Before adopting white shirts in 1898-99, Spurs briefly wore stripes in which colours?
Chocolate and gold
Spurs wore chocolate and gold striped shirts in the mid-1890s, after spells in navy, light blue and red, before settling on white shirts in 1898-99.
Q 06Spurs' white shirts and blue shorts, adopted in 1898-99, copied the colours of which club?
Preston North End
Spurs adopted white shirts and blue shorts in 1898-99 in imitation of Preston North End, the Football League's first champions; the white shirts gave rise to the nickname 'The Lilywhites'.
Q 07Spurs' 1901 FA Cup win made them the only winners since 1888 who were what at the time?
Outside the Football League
Spurs were outside the Football League, playing in the Southern League they had won in 1899-1900 under player-manager John Cameron, when they beat Sheffield United in the 1901 final replay.
Q 08Which manager led Spurs to their second FA Cup in 1921 with a 1-0 win over Wolves?
Peter McWilliam
Peter McWilliam, manager from 1912 to 1927, won the 1921 final 1-0 over Wolves through a Jimmy Dimmock goal on a muddy Stamford Bridge pitch; the Cup profits paid for a covered Paxton Road terrace.
Q 09Arthur Rowe's Spurs won the club's first top-flight title in 1950-51 playing a style known as what?
Push and run
Rowe's push and run style of quick short passes and movement won the Second Division in 1949-50 and the league title in 1950-51; he resigned through ill health in 1955.
Q 10Spurs' 1960-61 Double season began with a top-flight record start of how many straight wins?
11
Spurs won their first 11 matches of 1960-61, a top-flight record start, then drew with Manchester City and won four more; the title was sealed against Sheffield Wednesday with three games to spare.
Q 11The 1961 Double was completed with a 2-0 FA Cup final win over which club?
Leicester City
Spurs beat Leicester City 2-0 at Wembley on 6 May 1961 with goals from Bobby Smith and Terry Dyson to complete the first Double of the 20th century, the first since Aston Villa in 1897.
Q 12Spurs became the first British club to win a European trophy in 1963, beating which side 5-1?
Atlético Madrid
Spurs beat Atlético Madrid 5-1 in Rotterdam in the 1963 Cup Winners' Cup final, with two goals from Terry Dyson; the 1972 UEFA Cup later made them the first British club with two different European trophies.
Q 13Spurs' 'Glory Glory Hallelujah' tradition began in 1961 at a European Cup tie against which Polish club?
Górnik Zabrze
Q 21ENIC, which bought the controlling stake in 2001, was founded by which billionaire?
Joe Lewis
Joe Lewis, the Bahamas-based currency trader who founded ENIC, bought the controlling stake in 2001 and later passed his interest to a family trust; his partner Daniel Levy ran the club as executive chairman until September 2025.
Q 22Which manager won Spurs the 2008 League Cup?
Juande Ramos
Juande Ramos, appointed from Sevilla in October 2007, won the 2008 League Cup 2-1 against Chelsea after extra time; it was the club's last trophy for 17 years.
Q 23Spurs' second-place finish in 2016-17 under Pochettino was their highest since which season?
1962-63
Górnik Zabrze won the first leg 4-2 and Polish papers said Spurs 'were no angels'; at White Hart Lane fans dressed as angels, sang 'Glory Glory Hallelujah' and saw Spurs win 8-1.
Q 14In 1961 Bill Nicholson started a Spurs tradition for European ties: players wore what?
White shorts instead of navy
Nicholson put Spurs in white shorts instead of navy for European ties from 1961, creating an all-white kit, and the club kept the tradition for decades.
Q 15Spurs' 1967 FA Cup win over Chelsea at Wembley was notable as what?
The first all-London final
The 1967 final, won 2-1 with goals from Jimmy Robertson and Frank Saul, was the first all-London final, nicknamed the 'Cockney Cup Final'; Spurs' rivalry with Chelsea is often traced to it.
Q 16Which two Argentinians did Keith Burkinshaw sign after the 1978 World Cup, a rarity for the era?
Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa
Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa arrived together in July 1978, weeks after Argentina's World Cup win; Villa's solo goal won the 1981 FA Cup final replay against Manchester City.
Q 17In 1983 Tottenham Hotspur plc became the first European sports club to do what?
List on a stock market
Irving Scholar made Tottenham Hotspur plc the first European sports club to list on a stock market, floating it on the London Stock Exchange in October 1983; the 3.8 million shares sold out quickly.
Q 18Which Amstrad businessman teamed up with Terry Venables in 1991 to buy Spurs?
Alan Sugar
Sugar soon became the dominant partner and sacked Venables from the board in 1993.
Q 19Whose long-range free kick opened the scoring in Spurs' 1991 FA Cup semi-final at Wembley?
Paul Gascoigne
Paul Gascoigne's 35-yard free kick after five minutes set up a 3-1 semi-final win; he then tore knee ligaments early in the final, which a Des Walker own goal won for Spurs.
Q 20In 1991 Spurs became the first club to wear what, an innovation at the time?
Long-cut shorts
Umbro's 1991 Spurs kit, worn in that year's FA Cup final, introduced long-cut shorts at a time when every other club's shorts were cut well above the knee.
Second place in 2016-17 was Spurs' best finish since 1962-63, when Bill Nicholson's side were runners-up to Everton; two years later they lost the Champions League final 2-0 to Liverpool.
Q 24In February 2023 Harry Kane displaced whom as Tottenham's all-time record goalscorer?
Jimmy Greaves
Kane's 267th goal, against Manchester City on 5 February 2023, passed Jimmy Greaves's club record of 266 that had stood since 1970; Kane left for Bayern Munich that summer with 280.
Q 25Spurs ended a 17-year trophy drought by beating which club 1-0 in the 2025 Europa League final?
Manchester United
Ange Postecoglou was still sacked after a 17th-place league finish, the club's worst of the Premier League era.
Q 26Which manager lasted just 44 days at Spurs in 2025-26 before Roberto De Zerbi arrived?
Igor Tudor
Thomas Frank had also come and gone; De Zerbi kept the club up in 17th for a second successive season.
Q 27White Hart Lane was built in 1899 on an unused plant nursery owned by which brewery?
Charrington
The brewers Charrington owned the disused nursery behind the White Hart pub on Tottenham High Road where the ground rose in 1899; the road called White Hart Lane lies a few hundred yards north.
Q 28Which club were the first visitors to White Hart Lane, losing a 1899 friendly 4-1 in front of 5,000?
Notts County
Notts County were the first visitors, losing a friendly 4-1 on 4 September 1899 before about 5,000; QPR were the first competitive visitors five days later and lost 1-0.
Q 29White Hart Lane's record attendance of 75,038 was set in March 1938 for a cup tie against which club?
Sunderland
The 75,038 crowd watched an FA Cup sixth-round tie against Sunderland on 5 March 1938; after all-seater conversion the old ground held roughly 36,000.
Q 30The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium opened on 3 April 2019 with a 2-0 Premier League win over which club?
Crystal Palace
Son Heung-min scored the first goal at the new ground and Christian Eriksen added a second in the 2-0 win over Crystal Palace; Spurs had played 2017-18 and most of 2018-19 at Wembley.