Hull City Trivia
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49 free Hull City trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Hull City trivia quiz covers the whole story of the Tigers, from the club's 1904 foundation in a rugby league town to the Premier League seasons, the 2014 FA Cup final and the play-off wins at Wembley. You will find questions on Anlaby Road, Boothferry Park and the MKM Stadium, on Chris Chilton, Raich Carter, Dean Windass and Steve Bruce, and on the fights off the pitch too, including the tennis-ball protest and the failed Hull Tigers rename. The early questions are the ones any Hull supporter should get; later ones dig into club records, cup oddities and the kind of detail that settles arguments in the pub: the first team ever knocked out of a cup on penalties, the fish-trade Christmas exemption, and who scored the first goal at the KC Stadium. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the club, its grounds and its players, and each question carries a citation. It works as a solo test or as a ready-made Hull City round for a quiz night.
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Q 01Which newspaper is credited with coining Hull City's 'Tigers' nickname in 1905?
Hull Daily Mail
The Hull Daily Mail is thought to have coined the name in 1905, when one of its reporters used it in reference to the team's striped kit.
Q 02Which two colours make up Hull City's traditional home kit?
Black and amber
Black and amber have been Hull City's colours since their first season, with only brief exceptions; an all-amber kit tried in 1964-65 was so unpopular with supporters that it was dropped after one season.
Q 03Which rugby league ground first hosted Hull City?
The Boulevard
The Boulevard staged Hull City's first games; formed too late to join a league for 1904-05, the club filled that season with friendlies before election to the Football League.
Q 04Which stadium was Hull City's home from 1946 until 2002?
Boothferry Park
Boothferry Park opened in August 1946 with only one stand finished, and by the time Hull City left in December 2002 a supermarket had been built into one end of the ground.
Q 05The MKM Stadium is shared with which rugby league club?
Hull F.C.
Hull F.C., one of rugby league's oldest clubs, left their ground of 107 years in 2003 to share the football club's new council-owned stadium.
Q 06Who scored the only goal in the 2008 play-off final that sent Hull City to the top flight?
Dean Windass
Dean Windass, sold in 1995 when his hometown club was in financial trouble, returned in 2007 and at 39 volleyed the goal that took Hull into the top flight for the first time.
Q 07Who did the Tigers beat in the 2008 Championship play-off final?
Bristol City
Bristol City lost 1-0 at Wembley on 24 May 2008, a result that completed Hull's climb from the fourth tier to the top flight in just five seasons.
Q 08Who was Hull City's manager when they first reached the Premier League in 2008?
Phil Brown
Phil Brown took Hull up via the 2008 play-offs and kept them in the Premier League in 2009, delivering his famous on-pitch half-time team talk at Manchester City on Boxing Day 2008.
Q 09Hull City lost their first FA Cup final, in 2014, to which club?
Arsenal
Arsenal won 3-2 after extra time; James Chester and Curtis Davies had Hull 2-0 up inside ten minutes before Aaron Ramsey's 109th-minute winner.
Q 10Which manager led Hull City to two Premier League promotions, an FA Cup final and Europe from 2012 to 2016?
Steve Bruce
Steve Bruce walked out in July 2016, eight weeks after winning the play-off final, when his relationship with the club's hierarchy broke down.
Q 11Who scored Hull City's first top-flight goal, against Fulham in August 2008?
Geovanni
Geovanni, a former Barcelona midfielder, curled in the equaliser after Hull fell behind inside ten minutes, and Caleb Folan's late goal won their first top-flight game 2-1.
Q 12Who is Hull City's record goalscorer, with 222 goals in all competitions?
Chris Chilton
Chris Chilton scored 222 goals for his local club between 1960 and 1971, and in 2020 an appeal backed by its supporters raised more than £40,000 towards his dementia care.
Q 13Who holds Hull City's appearance record, with 579 games in all competitions?
Andy Davidson
Q 21Which club beat Hull City 8–0 in July 2020, equalling the heaviest defeat in Hull's history?
Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic won 8-0, yet both clubs went down days later: Hull finished bottom, and Wigan were relegated by a 12-point deduction for entering administration.
Q 22What club record did Duane Darby set in Hull's 8–4 win over Whitby Town?
Most goals in one match
Most goals in one match: Duane Darby scored six of the eight, a double hat-trick, in a season when Hull finished only 17th in the bottom division.
Q 23What did Hull fans throw onto the pitch at Bolton in 1998 to protest the owner?
Tennis balls
Andy Davidson, a Scottish full-back, made a club-record 579 appearances for Hull City, the last of them in 1967, despite breaking his leg three times during his career.
Q 14Which owner tried and failed to rename the club 'Hull Tigers'?
Assem Allam
Assem Allam, the Egyptian-born owner who bought the club in 2010, argued 'City' was too common a name and said he would have renamed Manchester City 'Manchester Hunter'.
Q 15In April 2014, which body rejected Hull City's application to change its name?
The FA Council
The FA Council threw out the application by a 63.5% vote in April 2014, after the supporters' group City Till We Die had campaigned against the owner's plan.
Q 16Which Turkish media mogul completed a takeover of Hull City in January 2022?
Acun Ilıcalı
Acun Ilıcalı, a television presenter and producer, completed his takeover in January 2022 and sacked Liam Rosenior in May 2024 despite a seventh-place finish, citing differing 'football philosophy'.
Q 17Hull City contest the Humber derby with Scunthorpe United and which other club?
Grimsby Town
Grimsby Town complete the trio because all three clubs come from the old county of Humberside, Hull north of the estuary and the other two south of it.
Q 18What kind of ground was the Circle, Hull City's temporary home during 1905-06?
Cricket
Cricket was the Circle's game: Hull City rented the home of Hull Cricket Club until their own ground opened next door in March 1906, and the club's current stadium now stands on the site.
Q 19What was the name of Hull City's first permanent home, opened in March 1906?
Anlaby Road
Anlaby Road was Hull City's home from March 1906 until the Second World War shut the club down; it never staged league football again, because the club restarted at a new ground in 1946.
Q 20Hull City's biggest ever competitive win was 11–1 in 1939 against which club?
Carlisle United
Carlisle United lost 11-1 in the Third Division North on 14 January 1939, months before the war ended league football at Hull City's old ground for good.
Tennis balls were thrown onto the pitch at Bolton during a 1998 League Cup tie because the club's owner was a former tennis player, whose plans for the club supporters bitterly opposed.
Q 24Which former Hull City owner had bailiffs lock the club out of its own ground in 2000?
David Lloyd
David Lloyd sold the club in 1998 but kept the stadium, and in May 2000 repossessed it in a row over unpaid rent, locking staff out until a legal fight let Hull back in.
Q 25Who became Hull City's first manager from outside Britain and Ireland in 2002?
Jan Mølby
Jan Mølby, the Danish former Liverpool midfielder, was appointed in April 2002 and sacked that October; Peter Taylor then took over and began the climb to the Premier League.
Q 26Hull lost English football's first penalty shoot-out in 1970 in which competition?
The Watney Cup
The Watney Cup semi-final of 1970 went to English football's first shoot-out, where Hull keeper Ian McKechnie saved from Denis Law, then hit the bar with the kick that put his own side out.
Q 27Which former England international was player-manager when Hull won the Third Division North in 1948–49?
Raich Carter
Raich Carter, an FA Cup winner with Sunderland and Derby, dropped into the third tier to join Hull in 1948 and, as player-manager, took them up as champions a year later.
Q 28Hull's record home attendance of 55,019 came in a 1949 FA Cup tie against which club?
Manchester United
Manchester United won the sixth-round tie 1-0 in front of 55,019, more than twice what Hull's present stadium holds, at a time when the home side was in the third tier.
Q 29Hull City Council largely funded the club's 2002 stadium by selling shares in which company?
Kingston Communications
Kingston Communications, the city's own telephone company with its white phone boxes, was floated in 1999, and cash from the council's share sale built the roughly £44 million stadium.
Q 30Who was appointed Hull City's permanent manager in January 2012?
Nick Barmby
Nick Barmby, a Hull-born former England midfielder, was caretaker from November 2011 and permanent manager from January 2012 before being sacked that May after criticising the club's transfer policy.