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50 free Inter Milan trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Internazionale was born in 1908 when a group of players walked out of the Milan Cricket and Football Club because they wanted to sign foreigners. More than a century later it is the only Italian club never to have been relegated, a three-time European champion and the only Italian side to win the treble. This 50-question quiz runs from that founding night to the 2025-26 double. You will meet Giuseppe Meazza and the Ambrosiana years, Helenio Herrera's Grande Inter and its back-to-back European Cups, the Scudetto dei Record of 1989, the UEFA Cup-winning 1990s, Ronaldo and Zanetti, Mourinho's 2010 treble, and the ownership changes from the Morattis to Oaktree. There are questions on the colours, the Biscione, the ultras and the Derby d'Italia too. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone, share your score, or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01In which year was Inter founded?
1908
The club was formed on the night of 9 March, which is why its colours are said to represent the night sky.
Q 02Inter split from the Milan Cricket and Football Club in 1908 over what issue?
Signing foreign players
The name Internazionale reflects the founders' wish to accept foreigners as well as Italians.
Q 03In which year did Inter win its first Italian championship?
1910
The second title followed in 1920; in 1922 the club survived relegation only by winning two play-offs.
Q 04Who captained and coached Inter's first title-winning team, and later died in World War I?
Virgilio Fossati
He was killed in battle while serving in the Italian army.
Q 05In 1928 Inter was merged with which club and renamed Ambrosiana?
Unione Sportiva Milanese
The Fascist regime disliked the club's internationalist name; fans kept calling the team Inter anyway.
Q 06Which Hungarian coached Inter to the title in the first ever Serie A season, 1929–30?
Árpád Weisz
He also took Inter to the 1933 Central European Cup final, lost to Austria Vienna.
Q 07Who, aged 33 in 1938, became the youngest coach ever to win the Italian title?
Armando Castellazzi
A former Inter player, he had been part of the 1934 World Cup-winning Italy squad.
Q 08Who is Inter's all-time top scorer with 284 goals?
Giuseppe Meazza
His 38 goals in 39 matches in 1929–30 remain a club single-season record, and the stadium bears his name.
Q 09Who scored 209 goals for Inter over 11 seasons, second on the club's all-time list?
Alessandro Altobelli
He scored hat-tricks against Juventus in 4–0 wins on the same date, 11 November, in 1979 and 1984.
Q 10Which owner bought Inter in May 1955 and went on to build the Grande Inter?
Angelo Moratti
His son Massimo later owned the club from 1995 to 2013.
Q 11Helenio Herrera joined Inter in 1960 from which club?
Barcelona
He became Inter's longest-serving and most successful coach: three Scudetti, two European Cups and two Intercontinental Cups.
Q 12What nickname did Helenio Herrera earn after back-to-back European Cups?
Il Mago
His system, a modified 'Verrou', added a sweeper behind the centre-backs.
Q 13Which Spanish midfielder, the 1960 Ballon d'Or winner, did Herrera bring to Inter?
Luis Suárez
His record 25 million peseta fee followed a La Liga and Fairs Cup double.
Q 21Which shirt number did Inter retire in 2006 in honour of Giacinto Facchetti?
3
It was retired four days after his death; Nicolás Burdisso switched to 16 for the rest of the season.
Q 22Signings of Beckenbauer and Eusébio were cancelled after Italy's 1966 World Cup exit to which team?
North Korea
The federation banned new foreign signings, a ban that lasted until 1980.
Q 23Which striker led Serie A with 24 goals in Inter's 1971 title season?
Roberto Boninsegna
He repeated the feat the following season with 22 goals.
Inter's 1980 Scudetto was the last in Serie A won by a squad that was what?
Q 14Which Austrian coach invented the catenaccio system that Herrera later modified?
Karl Rappan
Rappan's version used four man-marking defenders; Herrera added a fifth, the libero.
Q 15What role did Herrera add behind the two centre-backs in his version of catenaccio?
A sweeper, or libero
Armando Picchi filled the role in the Grande Inter side.
Q 16Inter beat which club 3–1 in the 1964 European Cup final in Vienna?
Real Madrid
Sandro Mazzola scored twice and Inter became the first team to win the trophy unbeaten.
Q 17Which two-time winner did Inter beat in the 1965 European Cup final, played at home?
Benfica
Jair scored the only goal; Inter had overturned a 3–1 Anfield deficit against Liverpool in the semi-final.
Q 18Inter lost the 1967 European Cup final in Lisbon to which club?
Celtic
Suárez and Jair were injured; a week later Inter lost the title too, ending the Grande Inter era.
Q 19Which club beat Inter 2–0 in the 1972 European Cup final in Rotterdam?
Ajax
Johan Cruyff's side were winning the trophy for the second consecutive season.
Q 20Who scored the extra-time winner in the 1964 Intercontinental Cup play-off against Independiente?
Mario Corso
The decider was played at the Bernabéu; Inter became the first Italian club to be world champions.
Entirely Italian
Italy reopened signings of foreign players that very year.
Q 25Which defender spent a record 20 seasons at Inter after debuting aged 16 in 1980?
Giuseppe Bergomi
He remains the youngest player ever to debut for the first team.
Q 26Who coached Inter to the record-breaking 1989 Scudetto dei Record?
Giovanni Trapattoni
That side won 26 of 34 matches and finished 11 points clear of Maradona's Napoli.
Q 27Which Inter player won the first ever FIFA World Player of the Year award in 1991?
Lothar Matthäus
He also won the 1990 Ballon d'Or after captaining West Germany to the World Cup.
Q 28Which Inter goalkeeper was IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper three years running, 1989–91?
Walter Zenga
He was part of the Italian core that included Baresi, Bergomi and Ferri.
Q 29Inter's third UEFA Cup win, in 1998, was a 3–0 final victory in Paris over which club?
Lazio
Zamorano, Zanetti and Ronaldo scored in the club's third UEFA Cup in eight seasons.
Q 30For what fee did Inter sign Ronaldo in 1997, then a world record?
£19.5 million
Inter broke the record again two years later with £31 million for Christian Vieri.