UEFA Europa League
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50 free UEFA Europa League trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The UEFA Europa League is European football's second club competition, and for many fans its most unpredictable one. It began life in 1971 as the UEFA Cup, took its present name in 2009, and has produced marathon penalty shoot-outs, golden-goal drama and trophies for clubs that had never won anything on the continent before. This quiz covers the whole story: the first winners and the record holders, the coaches and strikers who made the tournament their own, and the finals people still argue about. There is a full set on the 2017–18 Europa League, from the group-stage debutants to the final, and another on how the knockout stage works, including the rule changes of 2021 and the format introduced in 2024–25. It suits anyone who follows European football, from casual viewers who remember the big finals to quiz-night regulars who know their semi-finalists. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few stories along the way.
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Q 01Which Spanish club has won the UEFA Europa League a record seven times, including three in a row?
Sevilla
Sevilla lifted the trophy in 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020 and 2023, and that 2014–2016 run is the only hat-trick of titles in the competition's history.
Q 02On which night are most UEFA Europa League matches played, though the final is held on a Wednesday?
Thursday
Thursday is the competition's regular night, though qualifying and knockout games can move to a Tuesday when fixtures clash.
Q 03Silvio Gazzaniga, sculptor of the UEFA Europa League trophy, also designed which far more famous football prize?
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup trophy and the UEFA Cup were both made by Gazzaniga for the Bertoni company in the early 1970s; the UEFA Cup weighs 15 kg and stands on yellow marble.
Q 04Which English club won the 2013 UEFA Europa League while still reigning as Champions League holders?
Chelsea
Chelsea, the first holders ever knocked out in the Champions League group stage, dropped into the Europa League and won the final with a header in the last minute of stoppage time.
Q 05Which capital city hosted the all-London 2019 UEFA Europa League final, with thousands of tickets left unsold?
Baku
Baku is so far from London that the two finalists planned to return 6,000 unsold tickets, and one of them called the choice of venue unacceptable.
Q 06Which manager won the UEFA Cup with Porto and the Europa League with Manchester United, then lost the 2023 final?
José Mourinho
José Mourinho reached his sixth European final with Roma in 2023 and lost it 4–1 on penalties after a 1–1 draw, his first defeat in a European final.
Q 07Which Spanish club won the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League after dropping out of the Champions League group stage?
Atlético Madrid
Atlético Madrid entered the knockout stage as a third-placed Champions League side and went on to a third title in nine seasons, after 2010 and 2012.
Q 08Which English club won the first UEFA Cup in 1972 and lifted the Europa League in Bilbao 53 years later?
Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers over two legs in 1972 and Manchester United 1–0 in 2025, their first European trophy since 1984.
Q 09Which Italian club, led by Diego Maradona, beat VfB Stuttgart over two legs to win the 1989 UEFA Cup?
Napoli
Napoli won the final 5–4 on aggregate with Maradona as captain, the club's first major European honour.
Q 10Which Italian club ended Bayer Leverkusen's 51-match unbeaten run by winning the 2024 UEFA Europa League final 3–0?
Atalanta
Atalanta had never won a European trophy before that night in Dublin, and had gone 61 years without a trophy of any kind.
Q 11Which French club lost the 2018 UEFA Europa League final 3–0, a quarter-century after winning the Champions League?
Marseille
Marseille had also lost the finals of 1999 and 2004, and no French club had ever won the competition.
Q 12Which French forward scored twice in the 2018 UEFA Europa League final and was named player of the season?
Antoine Griezmann
Antoine Griezmann struck in the 21st and 49th minutes, the first after a loose touch on the goalkeeper's pass out gifted his side the ball.
Q 13Which French city's stadium in the suburb of Décines-Charpieu hosted the 2018 UEFA Europa League final?
Lyon
Lyon staged the final at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais, with capacity set at 57,000 and former France defender Eric Abidal as the match ambassador.
Q 21Which one-off match do UEFA Europa League winners play against the Champions League winners the following August?
Super Cup
The Super Cup was contested by the Cup Winners' Cup holders until that competition was scrapped in 1999, when the UEFA Cup winners took over their place.
Q 22Which tie-breaker, still used in the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League knockout stage, did UEFA abolish in 2021?
Away goals rule
The away goals rule had settled level ties in European football since 1965; from 2021–22 they go to extra time and, if needed, penalties.
Q 23At which stage did eight Champions League drop-outs join the UEFA Europa League knockout phase in 2017–18?
Round of 32
Q 14Which manager announced his exit after 22 years, days before his club's 2017–18 UEFA Europa League semi-final?
Arsène Wenger
Arsène Wenger made the announcement on 20 April 2018, and Arsenal's 2–1 aggregate defeat meant he left without a European trophy in 22 years at the club.
Q 15Which club knocked out Borussia Dortmund and Lazio on the way to the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League semi-finals?
Red Bull Salzburg
Red Bull Salzburg, in Marco Rose's first season as coach, then lost the semi-final 3–2 on aggregate after extra time.
Q 16Which 37-year-old Athletic Bilbao striker was joint top scorer of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League with Ciro Immobile?
Aritz Aduriz
Aritz Aduriz scored eight goals even though his club went out in the last 16, a year after he hit all five in one group game against Genk.
Q 17Which English coach led Swedish club Östersund from the fourth tier to a 2018 Europa League win at Arsenal?
Graham Potter
Graham Potter's side won 2–1 in London but went out 4–2 on aggregate, having become the first Swedish club to get past the Europa League group stage.
Q 18Which striker nicknamed El Niño came on in the 2018 UEFA Europa League final in his last week at his boyhood club?
Fernando Torres
Fernando Torres was sent on in the 90th minute of the final, then scored twice in his farewell league game days later.
Q 19Which captain and France playmaker had to leave the 2018 UEFA Europa League final injured after only 32 minutes?
Dimitri Payet
Dimitri Payet's injury also cost him a place in the France squad that became world champions two months later.
Q 20Clubs from which country, admitted to UEFA in May 2016, made their debut in the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League?
Kosovo
Kosovo was given a single place for 2017–18, the same season in which Gibraltar's allocation rose from one club to two.
The round of 32 paired 24 group-stage qualifiers with eight third-placed Champions League sides; it disappeared in 2021–22, when the group stage was cut from 48 clubs to 32.
Q 24Since 2024–25, what must clubs placed 9th to 24th in the UEFA Europa League table win to reach the last 16?
A two-legged play-off
A two-legged play-off decides it: the top eight of the 36 clubs go straight through, while those placed 25th or lower are eliminated.
Q 25What advantage did seeded clubs receive in the first knockout draw of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League?
Second leg at home
Second leg at home went to the twelve group winners and the four best Champions League drop-outs, who were also kept apart from clubs of their own country.
Q 26Which competition, first won by Barcelona and last won by Leeds United, did the UEFA Cup replace in 1971?
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup began for cities that hosted trade fairs; a 1971 play-off between its first and last winners gave Barcelona the original trophy for good.
Q 27Which summer competition, UEFA's third tier, was scrapped and merged into the renamed UEFA Europa League in 2009?
Intertoto Cup
The Intertoto Cup, whose name blends the Latin for 'between' with the German for a betting pool, had sent its winners into the UEFA Cup since UEFA took it over in 1995.
Q 28Clubs from which country have won the most UEFA Cup and Europa League titles, ahead of England and Italy?
Spain
Spain's clubs had 14 titles by 2026, ahead of England's 11 and Italy's 10, and half of those Spanish wins belong to a single club.
Q 29Which Ukrainian club won the last final played under the UEFA Cup name, beating Werder Bremen in Istanbul in 2009?
Shakhtar Donetsk
Shakhtar Donetsk won 2–1 in extra time through Jádson, and all three goals in the game were scored by Brazilians.
Q 30Which London club, managed by Roy Hodgson, lost the first final played under the Europa League name in 2010?
Fulham
Fulham lost 2–1 after extra time in Hamburg, having beaten the host city's own club in the semi-finals and the holders earlier in the run.