50 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
They wanted a sport for the winter months; the name honours Harry Hotspur of the Northumberland family.
Q 02Why was 'Tottenham' added to the name in April 1884?
Another London side called Hotspur was getting their post
The other Hotspur's post had been mistakenly delivered to North London.
Q 03Which Bible class teacher at All Hallows Church became Spurs' first president and treasurer in 1883?
John Ripsher
He reorganised the club and found it premises 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 first competitive win, 5-2, came in the London Association Cup in 1885 against a works team called St Albans.
Q 05In 1890 the team wore red shirts and blue shorts and were known for a time as what?
The Tottenham Reds
A chocolate and gold striped kit followed in 1895 before white and navy arrived in 1898-99.
Q 06Spurs' white shirts and blue shorts, adopted in 1898-99, copied the colours of which club?
Preston North End
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
They were Southern League champions of 1899-1900 under player-manager John Cameron.
Q 08Which manager led Spurs to their second FA Cup in 1921 with a 1-0 win over Wolves?
Peter McWilliam
The profits from that Cup run paid for a covered terrace at the Paxton Road end.
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 resigned in 1955 through stress-related illness, having just signed Danny Blanchflower.
Q 10Spurs' 1960-61 Double season began with a top-flight record start of how many straight wins?
11
A draw and four more wins followed; 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
It was the first Double of the 20th century and 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
Nine years later the 1972 UEFA Cup made them the first British club to win two different European trophies.
Q 13How many major trophies did Bill Nicholson win in his 16 years as Spurs manager?
Eight
Two FA Cups, the League title, two League Cups, the Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Cup among them.
Q 21In 1991 Spurs became the first club to wear what, an innovation at the time?
Long-cut shorts
Every other kit then had shorts cut well above the knee.
Q 22ENIC, which bought the controlling stake in 2001, was founded by which billionaire?
Joe Lewis
His partner Daniel Levy ran the club as executive chairman until September 2025.
Q 23Which manager won Spurs the 2008 League Cup?
Juande Ramos
George Graham had won it in 1999; the 2008 trophy was the club's last for 17 years.
Spurs' second-place finish in 2016-17 under Pochettino was their highest since which season?
Q 14Spurs' 'Glory Glory Hallelujah' tradition began in 1961 at a European Cup tie against which Polish club?
Górnik Zabrze
The Polish press had said Spurs 'were no angels' after the 4-2 first leg; Spurs won the return 8-1.
Q 15In 1961 Bill Nicholson started a Spurs tradition for European ties: players wore what?
White shorts instead of navy
The white-shorts tradition for European ties was kept up for decades after Nicholson introduced it in 1961.
Q 16Spurs' 1967 FA Cup win over Chelsea at Wembley was notable as what?
The first all-London final
The Chelsea rivalry is traced back to that match.
Q 17Which two Argentinians did Keith Burkinshaw sign after the 1978 World Cup, a rarity for the era?
Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa
With Glenn Hoddle they won the FA Cup in 1981 and 1982 and the UEFA Cup in 1984.
Q 18In 1983 Tottenham Hotspur plc became the first European sports club to do what?
List on a stock market
Irving Scholar floated the club on the London Stock Exchange; 3.8 million shares sold quickly.
Q 19Which 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 20Spurs' 1991 FA Cup win made them the first club to reach how many FA Cup victories?
Eight
Venables's side featured Paul Gascoigne and Gary Lineker.
1962-63
Two years later they reached their first Champions League final, losing 2-0 to Liverpool.
Q 25In February 2023 Harry Kane displaced whom as Tottenham's all-time record goalscorer?
Jimmy Greaves
Kane left for Bayern Munich that summer with 280 goals.
Q 26Spurs 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 27Which 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 28White Hart Lane was built in 1899 on an unused plant nursery owned by which brewery?
Charrington
The ground lay behind the White Hart pub; the road called White Hart Lane is actually a few hundred yards north of the entrance.
Q 29Which club were the first visitors to White Hart Lane, losing a 1899 friendly 4-1 in front of 5,000?
Notts County
QPR were the first competitive visitors and lost 1-0.
Q 30White Hart Lane's record attendance of 75,038 was set in March 1938 for a cup tie against which club?
Sunderland
The Premier League attendance record of 83,222 was set by Spurs against Arsenal at Wembley in 2018.