Wayne Rooney Trivia
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50 free Wayne Rooney trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Wayne Rooney scored his first Premier League goal five days before his 17th birthday, ending Arsenal's 30-match unbeaten run, and never really stopped. He left Everton for Manchester United in 2004 for a fee that was then a record for a teenager, scored a hat-trick on his debut against Fenerbahçe, and finished 13 years later as the club's all-time top scorer with 253 goals, five league titles and the Champions League, Europa League and FA Cup in the cabinet. This quiz covers the whole arc: the Croxteth childhood and 'Once a Blue, always a Blue' T-shirt, the overhead kick against Manchester City, the swearing ban, the 2008 Club World Cup in Yokohama, the 250th goal at Stoke, the late hat-trick for Everton with a goal from his own half, the spell at D.C. United, and then the manager's dugout at Derby, Birmingham and Plymouth. England fans get his record 53 goals, the 2006 stamp on Carvalho, Euro 2004 and the farewell cap against the USA. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play in sets of ten or print the lot for a football quiz night.
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Q 01In which area of Liverpool was Wayne Rooney born?
Croxteth
Croxteth: he grew up in a council house there with Everton pennants filling his bedroom window, yet at 18 he walked out on his boyhood club for Manchester United.
Q 02Which manager gave Rooney his Everton debut?
David Moyes
David Moyes: he later sued over a claim in Rooney's autobiography and won an apology and damages in 2008, five years before he became Rooney's manager again at Manchester United.
Q 03In 2007 Rooney carried a title belt into the ring in Las Vegas for which British boxer?
Ricky Hatton
Ricky Hatton: the boxer followed a rival club, yet he asked his friend, a United striker, to carry one of his belts into the ring for his fight with José Luis Castillo.
Q 04As a boy, Rooney wrote to which Everton striker?
Duncan Ferguson
Duncan Ferguson: he was in prison at the time and wrote back, and by the age of 16 the young fan was his team-mate in Everton's first-team squad.
Q 05What did Rooney's T-shirt read after he scored in the 2002 FA Youth Cup final?
Once a Blue, always a Blue
Once a Blue, always a Blue: two years later he left Everton for Manchester United, and in 2007 he answered the boos at Goodison Park by scoring and kissing the United badge.
Q 06Rooney's first senior goals came in a League Cup tie against which Welsh club?
Wrexham
Wrexham: he came off the bench after an hour and scored twice in the last eight minutes, taking Tommy Lawton's place as Everton's youngest scorer.
Q 07Rooney's first Premier League goal, at 16, ended whose 30-match unbeaten run?
Arsenal
Arsenal: the champions had gone 30 league games unbeaten until the substitute's last-minute shot, and their manager Arsène Wenger called him the biggest English talent he had seen since arriving in England.
Q 08Before Rooney joined Manchester United in 2004, Everton rejected a £20 million bid for him from which club?
Newcastle
Newcastle: their offer opened a bidding war with Manchester United, and within days Rooney had handed in a transfer request and left his boyhood club on deadline day.
Q 09Rooney scored a hat-trick on his United debut against which club?
Fenerbahçe
Fenerbahçe: he had not played since breaking a foot at Euro 2004 three months earlier, yet the 18-year-old scored three times in a 6–2 Champions League win, the last from a free kick.
Q 10Rooney's first United trophy was a 4–0 League Cup final win over which club?
Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic: in their first Premier League season the Latics trailed only 1–0 at half-time, then conceded three goals in one short burst, and Rooney scored the first and the last of United's four.
Q 11Why was Rooney sent off against Villarreal in the Champions League in 2005?
sarcastically clapping the referee
Sarcastically clapping the referee: he applauded in the face of Kim Milton Nielsen after a booking and got a second yellow card from the Dane who had sent off David Beckham at the 1998 World Cup.
Q 12Rooney won the Golden Ball at the 2008 Club World Cup after scoring the winner against which club?
LDU Quito
LDU Quito: United were down to ten men after Nemanja Vidić's red card when Rooney scored the only goal, making them the first English club to win the Club World Cup.
Q 13Against which club did Rooney first score four goals in a single match, in January 2010?
Hull City
Q 21Rooney's record-breaking 250th United goal was a late free kick against which club?
Stoke City
Stoke City: United were losing until his free kick four minutes into stoppage time, and Rooney admitted the record felt strange because his team had wanted a win, not a 1–1 draw.
Q 22Whose Manchester United scoring record of 249 goals did Rooney break?
Bobby Charlton
Bobby Charlton: eight days after his record fell, Sir Bobby walked onto the Old Trafford pitch before a cup tie and handed Rooney a commemorative golden boot himself.
Q 23Rooney's final United appearance was as a substitute in a 2–0 win over which club?
Ajax
Ajax: he came on for Juan Mata in the 90th minute of the Europa League final, and minutes later he was the player who hoisted the trophy.
Hull City: after an early opener he waited until the 82nd minute for his second, then scored twice more to send United top of the league while their own fans chanted against the club's owners.
Q 14Rooney's celebrated February 2011 overhead kick won a match against which club?
Manchester City
Manchester City: the 78th-minute kick won the game 2–1, Sir Alex Ferguson said he could not remember a better goal at Old Trafford, and fans later voted it the best of the Premier League's first 20 seasons.
Q 15Rooney's 2011 bicycle kick lost the FIFA Puskás Award to a goal by which player?
Neymar
Neymar: his solo goal for Santos won the fans' vote ahead of Rooney's kick, yet it came in a match that Santos lost 5–4 after leading 3–0.
Q 16Whom did Rooney pass in 2011 to become the top-scoring Englishman in Champions League history?
Paul Scholes
Paul Scholes: three days after being dropped to the bench at Liverpool, Rooney scored twice against Oțelul Galați to pass his old teammate's 24 goals, and nobody passed Rooney until Harry Kane in 2024.
Q 17Which manager named Rooney United's club captain in 2014?
Louis van Gaal
Louis van Gaal: weeks into the job, he said Rooney's professionalism and attitude to training had impressed him, and gave him the armband Nemanja Vidić had left behind, with Darren Fletcher as deputy.
Q 18Whose record for most Premier League goals for one club did Rooney take in January 2016?
Thierry Henry
Thierry Henry: Rooney's 176th league goal for United beat the Frenchman's 175, and the lifelong Evertonian got it by scoring the winner at Anfield, his first goal there in eleven years.
Q 19Rooney captained United to the 2016 FA Cup with a 2–1 extra-time win over which club?
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace: Palace scored first and United had Chris Smalling sent off in extra time, yet Jesse Lingard's volley won it and gave Rooney, playing in midfield, the first FA Cup of his career.
Q 20In November 2016 Rooney became only the third player to reach 100 Premier League what?
assists
Assists: he got to 100 by setting up both of Zlatan Ibrahimović's goals in a 3–1 win at Swansea, and only Ryan Giggs and Frank Lampard had reached that mark before him.
Q 24Rooney scored the final ever goal at which stadium in May 2017?
White Hart Lane
White Hart Lane: his consolation in a 2–1 defeat was the last goal at Tottenham's home of 118 years, where fans flooded the pitch at the final whistle and demolition crews took over the next day.
Q 25Which striker partnered Rooney in the 2008 Champions League final?
Carlos Tevez
Carlos Tevez: he took and scored United's first penalty in the Moscow shoot-out that beat Chelsea, by which time Rooney had been substituted in extra time.
Q 26Who was the only player before Rooney to reach 200 Premier League goals?
Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer: Rooney became the 200 club's second member in August 2017 with a goal for Everton, the club where he had scored his first 15 years earlier, and called it a sweet moment.
Q 27Rooney's 60-yard goal from his own half for Everton in 2017 beat which goalkeeper?
Joe Hart
Joe Hart: the England goalkeeper had run out of his area to clear, and Rooney struck the ball first time straight back over him from inside his own half to finish his first Everton hat-trick.
Q 28Rooney's first MLS goal, in July 2018, beat which American goalkeeper?
Tim Howard
Tim Howard: Rooney slid the shot through the legs of his old Manchester United teammate, then broke his nose defending in stoppage time of the 2–1 win over Colorado.
Q 29Rooney left MLS in January 2020 to become player-coach at which club?
Derby County
Derby County: he arrived to play and coach at once, and a year later he hung up his boots to become the club's permanent manager.
Q 30Rooney's side were docked 21 points in 2021–22 for financial breaches and what else?
Entering administration
Entering administration: even so, Rooney's team were not relegated until three games from the end, and the administrators later tried and failed to talk him out of resigning.