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60 free Manchester City trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Manchester City have been a church team in West Gorton, a Second Division outfit playing to 8,000 people, the only reigning champions ever relegated, a third-tier club beaten by Gillingham to a penalty shoot-out, and then, within a generation, the first English men's side to win a domestic treble and four league titles in a row. This quiz covers the whole arc. The early questions take in the 1904 FA Cup, Billy Meredith's toothpick, the record 84,569 crowd at Maine Road, Bert Trautmann's broken neck and the Mercer-Allison team of Bell, Lee and Summerbee. Then it moves through the decline, the Dickov equaliser at Wembley in 1999, the Abu Dhabi takeover, Robinho, Tevez's billboard, Agüero in the fourth minute of stoppage time, and the Guardiola years of 100 points, Rodri in Istanbul, Haaland's 52 goals and the 130 charges. Supporter culture gets its due too: Blue Moon, the Poznań, inflatable bananas and 'typical City'. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the club, its grounds, finals and players, so the dates, scores and records will stand up in any pub on the blue side of Manchester.
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Q 01Manchester City were founded in 1880 under what name?
St. Mark's (West Gorton)
They became Ardwick AFC in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894, the year they adopted sky blue.
Q 02In which year did the club adopt the name Manchester City and its sky blue home shirts?
1894
Reports from 1884 describe the church side in black jerseys with a white cross.
Q 03City won their first major honour, the FA Cup, in 1904 by beating which club 1-0 at Crystal Palace?
Bolton Wanderers
Billy Meredith scored, and City became the first Manchester club to win a major trophy.
Q 04Early star Billy Meredith, who later crossed to United, was famous for chewing what during matches?
A toothpick
The Welsh winger was banned in 1906 for offering an Aston Villa player £10 to lose a match.
Q 05City moved to Moss Side in 1923 after fire destroyed the main stand at which previous ground?
Hyde Road
Maine Road, in Moss Side, was nicknamed the 'Wembley of the North' by its designers.
Q 06Maine Road's record 84,569 crowd in 1934 watched an FA Cup tie against whom?
Stoke City
The record stood until 2016; City went on to win that year's Cup against Portsmouth.
Q 07City won their first league title in 1937 and then did what the next season, despite scoring the division's most goals?
Got relegated
They remain the only reigning English champions ever to go down, a classic 'typical City' moment.
Q 08Goalkeeper Bert Trautmann famously played on in the 1956 FA Cup final after unknowingly doing what?
Breaking his neck
City beat Birmingham 3-1; the former German paratrooper had just been named Footballer of the Year.
Q 09Before joining City in 1949, Bert Trautmann had served in which role in the German forces?
Paratrooper
Some 20,000 people protested his signing; he became the first German to play in an FA Cup final.
Q 10The 1955 and 1956 FA Cup final teams were built around a tactical system named after which player?
Don Revie
The 'Revie Plan' used a deep-lying centre-forward, inspired by Hungary's Nándor Hidegkuti.
Q 11Which duo, appointed in 1965, led City to the league title, FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup?
Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison
City had just recorded a record-low home crowd of 8,015 against Swindon.
Q 12City clinched the 1967-68 league title on the final day with a 4-3 win away at which club?
Newcastle United
They pipped neighbours United to the championship.
Q 13City won the 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup final 2-1 in Vienna against which Polish side?
Górnik Zabrze
Neil Young and Francis Lee scored; the club's next European trophy took 53 years.
Q 21Which former England manager became City's first foreign manager in 2007?
Sven-Göran Eriksson
He was sacked in June 2008 and replaced by Mark Hughes two days later.
Q 22Which former Thai prime minister owned City before selling to the Abu Dhabi United Group in 2008?
Thaksin Shinawatra
His political troubles saw his assets frozen, leaving the club in a precarious position.
Q 23Which Brazilian did City sign for a British-record £32.5 million immediately after the 2008 takeover?
Robinho
He arrived from Real Madrid; the team still finished only tenth that season.
Q 14Malcolm Allison had Manchester City copy which Italian club's red and black stripes for luck?
AC Milan
City wore the stripes to win the 1969 FA Cup, 1970 League Cup and 1970 Cup Winners' Cup finals.
Q 15Which ex-United player back-heeled the 1974 Old Trafford goal that confirmed United's relegation?
Denis Law
He was playing for City; Francis Lee supplied the ball with ten minutes left.
Q 16Which City winger of the Mercer era later acted in Escape to Victory with Pelé and Stallone?
Mike Summerbee
He arrived in Mercer's first season alongside Colin Bell.
Q 17Before Manchester City in 1998, which German club was the only European trophy winner to fall to the third tier?
1. FC Magdeburg
Chairman Francis Lee resigned midway through that season.
Q 18Who scored City's stoppage-time equaliser against Gillingham in the 1999 play-off final?
Paul Dickov
City were 2-0 down with ten minutes left and won the shoot-out 3-1.
Q 19Cult 1990s playmaker Georgi Kinkladze came from which country?
Georgia
He was born in Tbilisi and named his country's player of the year twice before joining City.
Q 20Striker Shaun Goater, of 'Feed the Goat' fame, was an international for which country?
Bermuda
He scored 32 goals in 36 games for the islands.
Q 24After signing Carlos Tevez from United in 2009, City erected a blue billboard bearing what slogan?
Welcome to Manchester
It stood at the top of Deansgate, pointedly outside the city boundary in which Old Trafford sits.
Q 25Which manager replaced Mark Hughes in December 2009 and delivered the 2011 FA Cup and 2012 title?
Roberto Mancini
He was sacked in 2013 after finishing second and losing the FA Cup final to relegated Wigan.
Q 26Who scored the only goal of the 2011 FA Cup final against Stoke, City's first major trophy in 35 years?
Yaya Touré
He had also scored the winner against United in the semi-final.
Q 27Against which club did Sergio Agüero score his added-time title-winning goal in 2011-12?
Queens Park Rangers
City became the first team to win the Premier League on goal difference alone.
Q 28Which club captain lifted the 2012 Premier League trophy, City's first league title in 44 years?
Vincent Kompany
He captained City for eight of his eleven seasons and later managed Burnley and Bayern Munich.
Q 29Mario Balotelli's shirt message after scoring in the 6-1 win at Old Trafford in October 2011 read what?
Why always me?
The celebration followed newspaper reports about fireworks in his bathroom.
Q 30Sergio Agüero's nickname 'Kun', printed on his shirt, came from what?
A cartoon character
He was also Diego Maradona's son-in-law and broke his youngest-debut record at Independiente.