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60 free Diego Maradona trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Diego Maradona trivia is the story of a boy from a Buenos Aires shantytown who juggled a ball at half-time for Argentinos Juniors at twelve, made his debut at fifteen, broke the world transfer record twice, dragged an unfashionable southern Italian club to two league titles, and in four minutes in Mexico City scored both the most infamous and the most beautiful goals in World Cup history. This quiz covers all of it: Los Cebollitas and the 141-game unbeaten run, the nutmeg on debut, being left out of the 1978 squad, the 1979 World Youth Championship, the Boca title, the Bernabéu ovation and the Bilbao brawl, Napoli's saviour and the 'Ma-Gi-Ca' front line, the 1989 UEFA Cup, the 1986 tournament and the 53 fouls, the Hand of God, the tears of 1990, the ephedrine test of 1994, the cocaine bans, the talk show with Pelé as first guest, the 6-1 in Bolivia and 'suck it and keep on sucking it', Dorados and Gimnasia, the £7.1 million shirt, and the medical trial after his death in 2020. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen the Goal of the Century clip; the expert tier is for people who know which defender he nutmegged on debut. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on Maradona, and the supporting sentence is attached to each question.
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Q 01With which player did Maradona share the FIFA Player of the Century award in 2000?
Pelé
Maradona won the internet poll with 53.6 percent, so FIFA added a second award decided by a journalists' committee.
Q 02What was Maradona's famous nickname, meaning 'The Golden Boy'?
El Pibe de Oro
His low centre of gravity let him turn faster than almost anyone marking him.
Q 03In which shantytown on the outskirts of Buenos Aires was Maradona raised?
Villa Fiorito
His father worked at a chemicals factory; his mother was of Italian and Croatian descent.
Q 04What was the name of the Argentinos Juniors youth team Maradona starred for as a boy?
Los Cebollitas
It means 'The Little Onions'; they went 141 games unbeaten and are considered Argentina's best-ever youth team.
Q 05How old was Maradona when he made his professional debut for Argentinos Juniors in October 1976?
15
It was ten days before his 16th birthday, making him the youngest player in Primera División history.
Q 06Minutes into his debut Maradona nutmegged which Talleres de Córdoba defender?
Juan Domingo Cabrera
'That day I felt I had held the sky in my hands,' Maradona said afterwards.
Q 07What shirt number did Maradona wear on his professional debut?
16
The famous number 10 came later; he scored his first two professional goals two weeks after turning 16.
Q 08Which coach left the 17-year-old Maradona out of Argentina's squad for the 1978 World Cup on home soil?
César Luis Menotti
The same coach later managed him in Spain and won two cups.
Q 09In which country did Maradona star at the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship, scoring six goals?
Japan
Argentina beat the Soviet Union 3–1 in the final; only he and Messi have won the Golden Ball at both the U-20 and senior World Cups.
Q 10Against which country did Maradona score his first senior international goal, at Hampden in 1979?
Scotland
He would return to Hampden decades later for his first match as Argentina's manager.
Q 11Which Buenos Aires club did Maradona join for US$4 million in February 1981?
Boca Juniors
River Plate had also bid but pulled out to keep paying Passarella and Fillol.
Q 12In 1982 Maradona joined which club for a world-record fee of £5 million?
Barcelona
He was the first player to set the world transfer record twice.
Q 13Which Athletic Bilbao defender's tackle fractured Maradona's ankle in September 1983?
Andoni Goikoetxea
The two clashed again in the 1984 Copa del Rey final brawl that ended Maradona's Spanish spell.
Q 21How long was Maradona banned after failing a drug test for cocaine in 1991?
15 months
He left Italy in 1992 for Sevilla, then Newell's Old Boys and a return to Boca.
Q 22How many caps did Maradona win for Argentina?
91
He scored 34 goals and played at four World Cups.
Q 23In which country was the 1986 World Cup, which Maradona won as captain, held?
Mexico
A statue of him scoring the Goal of the Century now stands at the entrance to the Estadio Azteca.
Q 24Against which team did Maradona score the 'Hand of God' goal in the 1986 quarter-final?
Q 14Maradona's last game for his Catalan club, the 1984 Copa del Rey final, ended in a brawl before whom?
King Juan Carlos
Sixty people were injured as spectators threw objects; more than half of Spain was watching on television.
Q 15How many spectators watched Maradona's presentation as a Napoli player in July 1984?
75,000
A local paper wrote that the city lacked houses, schools and jobs, 'but none of this matters because we have Maradona'.
Q 16In which season did Maradona lead his Italian club to its first ever Serie A title?
1986–87
No club from the south of Italy had ever won the league; the celebrations ran for over a week.
Q 17What nickname was given to the Napoli attacking trio of Maradona, Bruno Giordano and Careca?
Ma-Gi-Ca
Maradona was Serie A's top scorer with 15 goals in 1987–88, though the title went to AC Milan.
Q 18Which German club did Maradona's Napoli beat over two legs to win the 1989 UEFA Cup?
Stuttgart
He scored a penalty in the first leg and assisted Ciro Ferrara's header in the 3–3 second leg.
Q 19How many Serie A titles did Maradona win with Napoli?
Two
The second came in 1989–90, sealed with a 1–0 win over Lazio on the final day.
Q 20Who broke Maradona's record of 115 goals for Napoli in 2017?
Marek Hamšík
The club retired the number 10 shirt in 2000, and fans voted to keep it retired when Maradona suggested Lavezzi wear it.
England
The match came four years after the Falklands War; the referee was Tunisia's Ali Bin Nasser.
Q 25In which year did Maradona finally admit he had punched the ball deliberately for his infamous 1986 goal?
2005
He conceded that his head never touched the ball and that he knew at once the goal was illegitimate.
Q 26Maradona beat how many opponents, including Peter Shilton, for the 'Goal of the Century'?
Six
He took 11 touches over more than half the pitch, four minutes after the handball goal.
Q 27How many times was Maradona fouled during the 1986 World Cup, a tournament record?
53
He played every minute, scored five goals and set up five more, and won the Golden Ball unanimously.
Q 28Whose winning goal in the 1986 final against West Germany did Maradona set up in the 84th minute?
Jorge Burruchaga
Argentina won 3–2 at the Estadio Azteca despite the Germans double-marking him.
Q 29Which French newspaper called Maradona 'half-angel, half-devil' after the 1986 quarter-final?
L'Équipe
The Goal of the Century was voted the greatest World Cup goal ever in a 2002 FIFA poll.
Q 30Which Italian defender famously man-marked Maradona in Argentina's 2–1 defeat at the 1982 World Cup?
Claudio Gentile
Maradona was later sent off against Brazil in the same tournament for retaliating against Batista.