Champions League Football Quiz
Quiz I
- Which club is the most successful in the tournament's history, having won it 13 times?
- Three managers have won the Champions League (or European Cup) three times, can you name them?
- As of 2019, Spanish clubs have 18 victories in the competition's history, but how many times have English clubs won it?
- Liverpool beat Spurs 2–0 in the 2019 final in the Wanda Metropolitano, which is the home stadium of which club?
- Two players have played in eight finals, Francisco Gento in the 1950s and 60s is one, can you name the more recent other?
- As of 2019, The Champions League's top scorer is Cristiano Ronaldo on 126 goals, with Lionel Messi 14 goals behind in second place, but which player is third in the all-time top scorers' list?
- Name the first British team to win the European Cup?
- Who holds the record as the oldest player to play in a final when his team lost to Hamburg in 1983?
- Liverpool beat Milan in the 2005 final in Istanbul, what was the score at half time?
- Name the first player to play in the Champions League group stage with seven clubs? (Hint: the clubs include Barcelona and Manchester United)
- The UEFA Champions League anthem is an adaptation of which composer's 1727 anthem 'Zadok the Priest'?
- In the 1970s four British clubs played in finals, Liverpool was one, can you name the other three?
- Which British football ground was the first to host a European Cup Final?
- Which player has made the most appearances in the competition? And as of August 2019, which two British players also makes the all-time top 10 appearances list?
- Real Madrid won the first five finals in 1956 to 1960, but which club won the next two?
Answers:
- Real Madrid
- Zinedine Zidane (2016, 2017, 2018, with Real Madrid), Bob Paisley (1977, 1978 and 1981 with Liverpool), and Carlo Ancelotti ( 2003, 2007 with Milan, and 2014 Real Madrid)
- 13 wins
- Atletico Madrid
- Paolo Maldini (Milan)
- Raul (with 71 goals)
- Celtic
- Dino Zoff (Juventus - 41 years and 86 days)
- 3–0 to Milan (Liverpool scored 3 goals in six minutes in the second half to draw the game, then won on penalties after extra time)
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
- George Frideric Handel
- Celtic (lost in 1970), Leeds Utd (lost in 1975) and Nottingham Forest (won in 1979)
- Hampden Park (glasgow) in 1960 (it also has the record highest attendance at 127,621 )
- Iker Casillas with 177 for Real Madrid and Porto. Ryan Giggs (145) and Paul Scholes (124).
- Benfica
Quiz II
- Four English players are in the tournament's top 50 all-time top scorers list, Wayne Rooney is one, can you name the other three?
- Only one out of the following four players is a Champions League or European Cup winner, which one out of Dennis Bergkamp, Eric Cantona, Ruud van Nistelrooy, or Kevin Keegan?
- Name the first Asian-born player to win a Champions League Final?
- In 1999, which two players scored the injury time goals to give Manchester United a 2-1 win against Bayern Munich?
- Which city hosted the 2017 final which saw Real Madrid beat Juventus four goals to one?
- Who is the first and so far only player to have won the Champions League with three clubs?
- Which legend of the game led Real Madrid to five consecutive European Cups?
- In 1982 which player scored the final's only goal to give his English club a 1–0 victory over Bayern Munich?
- As of 2019, Scotland provided a tournament winner once with Celtic, only three other countries have also won the cup once with a club, can you name them?
- Which club has been runner up seven times and won it twice?
- In December 2017, which club suffered the biggest defeat in its history, losing 7-0 to Liverpool at Anfield?
- Chelsea won 2012 UEFA Champions League Final, but which team did they beat in the final? And in which city was the final played?
Answers:
- Paul Scholes (24), Frank Lampard (23) and Steven Gerrard (21)
- Kevin Keegan has won it, the others have not
- Park Ji-sung (Man Utd, 2008)
- Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solsjaer
- Cardiff
- Clarence Seedorf (once with Ajax, in 1995, once with Real Madrid, in 1998 and twice with Milan, in 2003 and 2007)
- Alfredo Di Stefano
- Peter Withe (for Aston Villa)
- France (Marseille), Romania (Steaua Bucuresti) and Yugoslavia (Red Star Belgrade)
- Juventus
- Spartak Moscow
- They beat Bayern Munich and it was played in Munich
Quiz III
- In the Champions League era Alex Ferguson has made most appearances as a manager but which manager comes second on the list?
- Who won the tournament three times as a player in the early 1970s and later as manager in 1992?
- "For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!" Who said this about Alex Ferguson?
- Two players playing for English clubs in the Champions League Final have been sent off, one in 2006 and the other in 2008, can you name both?
- Which player scored four in the 1960 final and three in the 1962 final?
- Who became the first player to reach the Champions League quarter-finals with four separate clubs? (Hint: the clubs were Kaiserslautern, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich and Chelsea)
- Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup in 1968. Which team did they beat 4-1, and can you name the three United player that scored?
- Which player was top scorer in the 1984–85 competition and also scored most goals at the 1984 UEFA European Football Championships?
- Which club played 23 successive matches from 26 September 2006 until 11 December 2013 without a win?
- The record for the longest away unbeaten run stands at 16 games and is held by which club?
- Which club ended third in Group C in 2018-19, but would have been one point ahead of eventual winners Liverpool under the old 2 instead of 3 points for a win rule?
- What is the combined total of finals that Liverpool and Manchester United have played in?
Answers:
- Arsene Wenger
- Johan Cruyff
- Brian Clough (on referring to Ferguson's failure to win two successive European Cups)
- Jens Lehmann (Arsenal) in 2006 and Didier Drogba (Chelsea) in 2008
- Ferenc Puskas
- Michael Ballack
- They beat Benfica. Charlton (2), Best and Kidd scored.
- Micheal Platini
- Steaua Bucuresti
- Manchester United (starting with a 1–0 win against Sporting CP in the 2007–08 group stage and ended with a 1–2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the first leg of the 2009–10 quarter-finals)
- Napoli
- Fourteen (Liverpool 9, Man Utd 5)
Note: The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) was called the European Cup until 1992, when it was a knockout tournament open only to the champion club of each national championship. The questions in this quiz relate to the whole history of the competition and not just post 1992.