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50 free FIFA trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
FIFA is more than the World Cup. It is a 120-year-old federation founded in a Paris back room, run from a largely underground headquarters in Zurich, and answerable to more member bodies than the United Nations has states. Its presidents have included a former Olympic swimmer and a Wembley referee, and its modern history includes a dawn hotel raid that reshaped world sport. This quiz covers the organisation and its world: how it was founded and who joined, the confederations beneath it, the youth, club and regional tournaments it runs beyond the World Cup, the awards it hands out, how its world ranking works, who writes the Laws of the Game, the 2015 corruption case and its fallout, and the video game series that carried the FIFA name for three decades before it was dropped. It suits pub quiz setters, football fans who want something beyond results and scorers, and anyone curious how the game is actually governed. Every answer comes with a short explanation and a source.
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Q 01What share of the Home of FIFA, the Zurich headquarters inaugurated in 2007, lies underground?
Two thirds
Two thirds of the Home of FIFA sits below ground, with five buried levels against just two above it. A German broadcaster called it an underground skyscraper.
Q 02Which country joined FIFA by telegram on founding day in 1904 but is not counted as a founder?
Germany
Germany wired its intention to join on 21 May 1904, the day seven founders met in Paris, but a telegram did not earn founder status. Its delegates did help decide the first statutes.
Q 03Pelé's 2004 FIFA 100 list of the greatest living footballers actually named how many players?
125
125 footballers appear on the FIFA 100, so the title refers to FIFA's hundredth birthday rather than the length of Pelé's list.
Q 04Besides goals, penalties and straight red cards, what fourth type of decision can a VAR review?
Mistaken identity
Mistaken identity in awarding a red or yellow card is the fourth reviewable category. VAR was only written into the Laws of the Game in March 2018.
Q 05For how many years was Jules Rimet FIFA president, longer than anyone before or since?
33
33 years in office, from 1921 to 1954, make Jules Rimet the longest-serving FIFA president. He also created the World Cup, which was renamed in his honour.
Q 06Every FIFA member association must also belong to one of how many continental confederations?
Six
Six confederations divide the globe, and FIFA requires every national association to sit inside one of them. The youngest, covering the Pacific, dates only from 1966.
Q 07FIFA International Soccer debuted in December 1993 on which console, with ports to other systems following in 1994?
Sega Mega Drive
Sega Mega Drive owners got FIFA International Soccer first, and that version became the UK's best-selling home video game of 1993. Ports to other systems followed in 1994.
Q 08Which nation has spent the longest at No. 1 in FIFA's men's ranking, one of only a handful ever to top it?
Brazil
Brazil has led the FIFA ranking for longer than anyone, though eight nations have held top spot since the list began in the early 1990s.
Q 09How long a ban did FIFA's ethics committee hand Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini on 21 December 2015?
Eight years
Eight years was the ban for both men, and the ruling ejected Blatter from an office he had held since 1998. He was 79 at the time.
Q 10Which player fronted the standard cover of EA Sports FC 24, the first post-FIFA game?
Erling Haaland
Erling Haaland fronted EA Sports FC 24's standard edition, the first release after EA and FIFA ended their licensing agreement. Women's players joined Ultimate Team for the first time in that game.
Q 11Which FIFA founder nation of 1904 was represented by a lone club because it had no national federation?
Spain
Spain was represented by the club now known as Real Madrid; the Royal Spanish Football Federation did not exist until nine years later.
Q 12Which Brazilian, an Olympic swimmer in 1936 and water polo player in 1952, ran FIFA from 1974 to 1998?
João Havelange
João Havelange swam the 400m and 1500m freestyle in Berlin without getting past the heats, then spent 24 years as FIFA president. He also led his country's delegation at the 1956 Games.
Q 13Which referee of the 1934 FA Cup final rewrote the Laws of the Game in 1938, then led FIFA from 1961?
Stanley Rous
Q 21Which Brazilian club won the first Club World Championship in 2000 on penalties after a goalless final?
Corinthians
Corinthians beat Vasco da Gama 4–3 in the shoot-out in front of 73,000 after a 0–0 draw that had run through extra time.
Q 22Which team won the first U-20 World Cup, held in Tunisia in 1977, beating Mexico on penalties in the final?
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union lifted the first title at Tunis's Stade El Menzah; the event was called the World Youth Championship until 2005.
Q 23Which nation has won the U-20 World Cup more often than any other, one more time than its neighbouring rival?
Argentina
Argentina's six titles top the list, one ahead of its neighbour; the event has been played every two years since 1977.
Stanley Rous retired from refereeing the day after that Wembley final, and his 1938 rewrite made the Laws simpler and easier to understand. He ran FIFA until 1974.
Q 14Before his 1998 election as president, Sepp Blatter spent the years from 1981 in which FIFA post?
General secretary
General secretary from 1981 to 1998 was Blatter's route to the top, after six years as technical director. He also married the daughter of the man he replaced in the job.
Q 15Which football bodies quit FIFA over the Central Powers, then again in 1928 over payments to amateurs?
The four British associations
The four British associations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland walked out twice and did not return until after the Second World War.
Q 16Which confederation, founded in 1916, is FIFA's oldest and, with ten members, also its smallest?
South America's CONMEBOL
South America's CONMEBOL is the only fully continental, land-based confederation, with no island members, and its headquarters sit in Luque, Paraguay.
Q 17Which 55-member confederation moved its base from Paris to Bern in 1960 and on to Nyon in 1995?
UEFA
UEFA was founded in Basel in 1954 and opened its current Nyon headquarters in 1999; 48 of its 55 members are sovereign UN states.
Q 18CAF, Africa's confederation, left Khartoum after a fire for a headquarters near which city?
Cairo
Cairo's satellite 6th of October City now hosts CAF, which began inside the Sudanese FA's offices in 1957 and has 54 members.
Q 19Which nation left the Pacific's confederation for Asia's in 2006, leaving New Zealand its biggest member?
Australia
Australia had already left once before; the Asian deal was struck in June 2005, so the Socceroos played the 2006 World Cup still officially representing their old confederation.
Q 20Which confederation had no guaranteed World Cup place until the 2026 tournament?
Oceania's OFC
Oceania's OFC now sends its best team straight to the finals, and New Zealand took the first automatic berth in March 2025 by beating New Caledonia 3–0.
Q 24Which African nation is the most successful in U-17 World Cup history, having also lost three finals?
Nigeria
Nigeria's haul of titles is the biggest in the tournament, and Africa has won seven U-17 crowns in all, with Ghana taking the other two.
Q 25The Confederations Cup began in 1992 as the King Fahd Cup, organised and hosted by which country?
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia staged the 1992 and 1995 editions, named for its king, with the Saudi national side taking on a handful of continental champions.
Q 26Who lost the last Confederations Cup final 1–0 in 2017, two years before FIFA scrapped the tournament?
Chile
Chile lost to the reigning world champions, who claimed their first Confederations Cup; FIFA then handed its slot to an expanded Club World Cup.
Q 27Which nation beat Tunisia after extra time to win the first FIFA-run Arab Cup in Qatar in 2021?
Algeria
Algeria's first Arab Cup came with a 2–0 win at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, in venues that were warming up for the 2022 World Cup.
Q 28What does Europe's club champion receive in FIFA's Intercontinental Cup, a knockout launched in 2024?
A bye to the final
A bye to the final is the European champion's privilege, while the other confederations' champions play off for the right to face them.
Q 29Since 1992 men's Olympic footballers must be under what age, with three overage exceptions from 1996?
23
23 is the cap, imposed so the Olympics would not rival the World Cup; the limit was raised by a year for the postponed Tokyo Games.
Q 30In which year did FIFA join the law-making board IFAB as its fifth member, at a meeting in Wrexham?
1913
1913 brought FIFA two seats on a board the home nations had run alone since 1886, and it was the FA itself that proposed the change.