London Football Clubs Trivia
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47 free London Football Clubs trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This London football clubs trivia quiz covers the whole capital, not just the big three. It starts with the origins — Fulham as the oldest, Dial Square becoming Arsenal, Thames Ironworks becoming West Ham, Gus Mears founding Chelsea, the FA itself in a Great Queen Street tavern — and moves through the grounds: Highbury and the Emirates, Stamford Bridge, White Hart Lane, Craven Cottage, Selhurst Park, the Den, Loftus Road, the Boleyn Ground and Wembley. Then come the moments and the trivia: the Invincibles, Spurs' 1961 Double and 1963 European first, West Ham's 1966 trio, Chelsea's Champions Leagues and clean sweep of UEFA trophies, Wimbledon's Crazy Gang, QPR's 1967 League Cup, Palace's first trophy in 2025, the North London derby's real start date, plus nicknames from the Addicks to the Os. About a third of the questions are easy; the rest will test even season-ticket holders. Our general football and Premier League pages go wider. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's club and stadium articles and the sources they cite, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01Fulham, London's oldest professional club, began in 1879 as a side called St Andrew's, formed by members of what?
A church Sunday school
A church Sunday school on Star Road, West Kensington, produced the side, founded by worshippers who mostly played cricket; it led a nomadic life until its first match at its present home in 1896.
Q 02Arsenal were founded in 1886 by munitions workers under what original name?
Dial Square
Dial Square was a workshop inside the Royal Arsenal armaments works; the team won its first match 6–0 against Eastern Wanderers and took the name Royal Arsenal soon afterwards.
Q 03Royal Arsenal became the first London club to do what in 1891?
Turn professional
Turn professional: the move set Royal Arsenal against the amateur London FA, and two years later they became the first southern club to join the Football League.
Q 04Which club ended the 49-game unbeaten league run of Arsenal's 2003–04 'Invincibles'?
Manchester United
Manchester United won 2–0 at Old Trafford in October 2004, and in the tunnel afterwards pizza was thrown at Sir Alex Ferguson, giving the match its name, the Battle of the Buffet.
Q 05Which Arsenal manager won the FA Cup a record seven times?
Arsène Wenger
Arsène Wenger won three of the seven in his last five seasons, after nine years without a trophy, and the seventh took him past Aston Villa's George Ramsay as the Cup's most successful manager.
Q 06Which manager won Arsenal their first silverware and set up their trophy-laden 1930s?
Herbert Chapman
Herbert Chapman won the 1930 FA Cup, Arsenal's first major trophy, then two league titles, and lobbied London Underground into renaming Gillespie Road station 'Arsenal' in 1932.
Q 07Which stadium did Arsenal make an official bid to buy in 1998, before choosing to build the Emirates instead?
Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium was the target because plans to enlarge 38,000-capacity Highbury met local opposition; Arsenal dropped the bid within weeks but played Champions League home games there until 2000.
Q 08Highbury's famous East and West Stands were built in which architectural style in the 1930s?
Art Deco
Art Deco earned the East Stand a Grade II listing, so its facade survived when Highbury was turned into flats and the pitch became a communal garden.
Q 09Which London athletics ground did the Mears brothers acquire in 1904 before founding a football club to fill it?
Stamford Bridge
Stamford Bridge was first offered to Fulham, who turned it down, so Gus and Joseph Mears founded Chelsea in 1905 to give their stadium a team.
Q 10After winning the league in 1955, Chelsea were talked out of entering which brand-new competition?
The European Cup
The European Cup began that autumn; Chelsea were drawn against Djurgården of Sweden but withdrew under pressure from the Football League, and a Polish club took their place.
Q 11Which club did Chelsea beat on penalties, in that club's own stadium, to win their first Champions League in 2012?
Bayern Munich
Bayern Munich led with minutes left before Didier Drogba headed Chelsea level; Petr Čech then saved a penalty in extra time and Drogba scored the winning kick of the shoot-out.
Q 12Which set of trophies did Chelsea complete in 2025, something no club had done before?
All four main UEFA competitions
All four main UEFA competitions: Chelsea trailed Real Betis at half-time in the 2025 final of UEFA's newest tournament, then scored four times to claim the one European prize they lacked.
Q 13What does Tottenham Hotspur's Latin motto mean in English?
Q 21West Ham's former home, the Boleyn Ground, was more often referred to by what name?
Upton Park
Upton Park is the district around it; the official name came from Boleyn Castle, a landmark house beside the ground that local tradition linked to Anne Boleyn.
Q 22Which Fulham legend, nicknamed 'The Maestro', has a stand named after him at the club's ground?
Johnny Haynes
Johnny Haynes became Britain's first £100-a-week footballer in 1961, when the maximum wage was abolished, yet spent his whole English career at Fulham.
Q 23Crystal Palace changed their nickname from 'The Glaziers' to what under a flamboyant 1970s manager?
The Eagles
The Eagles arrived in 1973 with manager Malcolm Allison, who borrowed the nickname from Benfica and swapped claret and blue for red and blue stripes.
To dare is to do
To dare is to do translates Audere est Facere; the cockerel standing on a ball goes back to 1909, when a metal casting from former player William Scott was made to top the new West Stand.
Q 14Which trophy made Tottenham the first British club to win a European competition, in 1963?
The Cup Winners' Cup
The Cup Winners' Cup: Spurs led the holders, Atlético Madrid, 2–0 in Rotterdam, saw a penalty cut it to 2–1, then scored three more, two of them by winger Terry Dyson.
Q 15Tottenham were the first club in the 20th century to achieve what, in 1960–61?
The League and FA Cup Double
The League and FA Cup Double was sealed in a Cup final against a Leicester side whose full-back Len Chalmers was hurt in the first half and, with no substitutes allowed, had to limp on out on the wing.
Q 16Which striker did Harry Kane overtake in 2023 as Tottenham's record goalscorer?
Jimmy Greaves
Jimmy Greaves cost £99,999 from AC Milan in 1961, a fee set to spare him the tag of Britain's first £100,000 player; his 266 goals stood as the club record for 53 years.
Q 17What feature lets the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium switch between football and NFL games?
A retractable grass pitch
A retractable grass pitch splits into three sections and slides under the South Stand in about 25 minutes, uncovering a synthetic NFL field beneath.
Q 18West Ham United were founded in 1895 under what name?
Thames Ironworks
Thames Ironworks was the works team of a Thames shipbuilder, started by its owner Arnold Hills; it was wound up in 1900 and relaunched as West Ham United.
Q 19Which three West Ham players started for England in the 1966 World Cup final?
Moore, Hurst and Peters
Moore, Hurst and Peters gave England their captain and all four goals in the final; a bronze statue of the trio with Ray Wilson was unveiled near West Ham's ground in 2003.
Q 20West Ham's home since 2016, the London Stadium, was originally built for what?
The 2012 Olympics
The 2012 Olympics left a stadium two clubs wanted: West Ham's first deal to move in collapsed in 2011 under legal challenges, one of them from rival bidders Tottenham.
Q 24Crystal Palace won their first ever major trophy in 2025 by beating whom in the FA Cup final?
Manchester City
Manchester City fell to a first-half goal from Eberechi Eze, and Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson then saved a penalty to protect the lead.
Q 25Which architect, who also designed Ibrox and Old Trafford, drew up Selhurst Park for its 1924 opening?
Archibald Leitch
Archibald Leitch started out designing factories; after terracing at his Ibrox ground collapsed in 1902, killing 25 people, he went on to build stands for clubs across Britain.
Q 26Which two clubs ground-shared at Selhurst Park at different times?
Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon
Charlton Athletic and Wimbledon were tenants in turn: Charlton arrived in 1985, close to bankruptcy and unable to keep up their own ground, and Wimbledon followed in 1991.
Q 27Brentford, nicknamed 'The Bees', played at which ground from 1904 until 2020?
Griffin Park
Griffin Park was known for having a pub on each corner; Brentford left in 2020 and within a year won promotion to the top flight for the first time in 74 years.
Q 28QPR's only major trophy came in 1967, when the Third Division side beat West Brom 3–2 to win which competition?
The League Cup
The League Cup looked lost at half-time, with QPR 2–0 down, before three second-half goals made them the first Third Division club to win a major trophy.
Q 29Loftus Road became the first British professional ground to install what, in 1981?
An artificial pitch
An artificial pitch went down in 1981, the first in English professional football, but the plastic surface was ripped up and replaced with grass in 1988.
Q 30In which part of London's docklands were Millwall founded in 1885, before moving south of the river in 1910?
The Isle of Dogs
The Isle of Dogs was home to Morton's cannery, whose workers formed Millwall Rovers; the club kept the Millwall name after crossing the Thames to New Cross.