Marta Trivia
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49 free Marta trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Marta trivia quiz covers Marta Vieira da Silva, the Brazilian forward many regard as the greatest female footballer of all time. The easy questions ask which country she captains, how many times she was named FIFA World Player of the Year, which record she holds at the Women's World Cup, which US club she plays for and what Pelé called her. From there it moves through her clubs in Sweden and America, her three Olympic silvers, her 2007 World Cup double of Golden Ball and Golden Boot and the emotional 2019 interview that went viral. The hard end is for people who followed her from Vasco da Gama to Orlando: the coach who discovered her at 14, the eye socket fractured in a Swedish Cup final, the sponsors who paid her Tyresö salary, the first player to reach 100 appearances for the Pride, the Spanish defender she kicked in the head, the languages she speaks, the year she took Swedish citizenship, the sportswear brand she launched and the FIFA award that carries her name. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entries on Marta, the Brazil women's national team, Orlando Pride, Umeå IK, Tyresö FF, FC Rosengård and the Women's World Cup and Olympic tournaments before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Our women's World Cup, Brazil football and NWSL quizzes are natural next stops.
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Q 01In which position does Marta primarily play?
Forward
Forward is her listed position now, but Marta began as an attacking midfielder, and a 2007 profile still listed her as a midfielder.
Q 02Which award has Marta won six times, including five in a row from 2006 to 2010?
FIFA World Player of the Year
FIFA World Player of the Year went to Marta five times running from 2006, when at 20 she became the youngest woman to win it; a sixth world award followed in 2018, eight years after the fifth.
Q 03Marta's 17th World Cup goal in 2019 broke the overall record, men's or women's, held by which striker?
Miroslav Klose
Miroslav Klose had held the overall record with 16 goals; Marta drew level with a penalty against Australia and passed him five days later with another against Italy.
Q 04Which English club beat Marta's side in the 2007 UEFA Women's Cup final?
Arsenal
Arsenal won 1-0 over two legs to become the first English club to lift the trophy, denying Marta a second European title three years after her first.
Q 05A Brazilian great gave Marta which nickname, likening her to himself?
Pelé with skirts
'Pelé with skirts' had the blessing of the man himself: Pelé phoned Marta to congratulate her after her starring role at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio.
Q 06Marta's nickname in Brazil is 'Rainha'; what does it mean?
Queen
Queen is the meaning of Rainha, and Brazil's press calls her 'a Rainha do Futebol', the queen of football; no man has scored as many goals for the national team as she has.
Q 07At 14, Marta left Dois Riachos on a three-day bus journey to try out for a club in which city?
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro lay three days away from her small home town in Alagoas, where she had learned the game by fighting for a place in the boys' street matches.
Q 08Which team knocked Marta's Brazil out of the 2012 Olympics in the quarter-finals?
Japan
Japan, World Cup winners the summer before, beat Brazil 2-0, so Marta left those Games without the medal she had won at each of the previous two.
Q 09How far did Brazil get at Marta's sixth World Cup, in 2023?
The group stage
The group stage was as far as Brazil got: a goalless draw with Jamaica in the last game sent the Jamaicans through instead, and Marta, 37, went home without a goal at a World Cup for the first time.
Q 10With which club did Marta win four straight league titles from 2005 to 2008, two of them unbeaten?
Umeå IK
Umeå IK signed her at 18 and went through the 2005 and 2006 league seasons without losing a game; she later added three more titles with two other clubs in the same league.
Q 11Which Brazil strike partner of Marta top-scored with 15 goals as their club won the 2009 Copa Libertadores Femenina?
Cristiane
Cristiane hit 15 goals in the tournament while Marta was named its best player; the two had been Brazil's front line since they were teenagers.
Q 12Which team beat Marta's Brazil 2-0 in the 2007 Women's World Cup final?
Germany
Germany won 2-0 in Shanghai and went through the whole tournament without conceding a goal; Marta, its top scorer, had a penalty saved midway through the second half that would have levelled the final.
Q 13Marta won the Golden Boot as top scorer at the 2007 World Cup and which award as its best player?
The Golden Ball
Q 21After retiring from international football following the 2024 Olympics, Marta returned in 2025 to help Brazil win which tournament?
Copa América Femenina
Copa América Femenina 2025 turned on Marta at 39: in the final against Colombia she equalised in stoppage time with a long-range shot, scored again in extra time, and Brazil won on penalties.
Q 22Marta joined the inaugural Women's Professional Soccer season in 2009 with which club, and was named league MVP?
Los Angeles Sol
Los Angeles Sol finished top of the regular season with Marta as the league's leading scorer, but lost the final 1-0 and folded within months, which sent her into a dispersal draft.
Q 23Marta won her first WPS championship in 2010 with which Bay Area club, again as league MVP?
The Golden Ball completed a personal double after her seven goals, yet the tournament ended in tears: Brazil lost the final, and Marta had a penalty saved in it.
Q 14How did the Maracanã honour Marta in 2007, a first for any woman?
Her footprints were set in cement
Her footprints were set in cement at the stadium, an honour until then given only to men, after she scored twice in a final watched by a crowd of 68,000.
Q 15In which city did Marta win her third Olympic silver medal, twenty years after her first?
Paris
Paris brought a third silver two decades after the first, each from a final lost to the same opponent; Marta came on as a substitute in it after sitting out two games through suspension.
Q 16In 2019 Marta became the first player to score at five World Cups; which men's star matched her in 2022?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo became the first man to do it with a penalty against Ghana in Qatar, three years after Marta had got there first with a penalty of her own against Australia.
Q 17Against which team did Marta score twice in 2021 to become the first player to score at five straight Olympics?
China
China were beaten 5-0 in Brazil's opening game, Marta scoring twice to stretch a run that began in 2004; Brazil still went out in the quarter-finals, on penalties.
Q 18Which Brazil teammate, then at her seventh World Cup, did Marta name as an ageing legend in her viral 2019 plea?
Formiga
Formiga, 41 that summer, was one of the veterans Marta said would not be around for ever as she urged Brazilian girls to 'cry at the beginning so you can smile at the end'.
Q 19Which team eliminated Marta's Brazil from the 2019 World Cup in the round of 16, after extra time?
France
France, the hosts, won 2-1 in Le Havre with an extra-time goal from their captain, Amandine Henry; after the final whistle a tearful Marta turned to the cameras and urged Brazil's girls to carry the game on.
Q 20Which Spaniard, scorer of the 2023 World Cup final's only goal, did Marta accidentally kick in the head in 2024?
Olga Carmona
Olga Carmona was caught by Marta's high boot in first-half stoppage time of the last group game; the red card brought a two-match ban that kept Marta out until the final.
FC Gold Pride
FC Gold Pride took Marta first in the dispersal draft and she repaid them with 19 goals in 24 games and a 4-0 win in the final; less than two months later the champions folded.
Q 24Marta's third WPS club in three years, with which she won the 2011 title on penalties, was which expansion team?
Western New York Flash
Western New York Flash won the 2011 final 5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw, and Marta took a third straight Golden Boot; the league then cancelled its 2012 season, which sent her back to Europe.
Q 25Marta spent two WPS off-seasons on loan at which Brazilian club, winning the 2009 Copa Libertadores Femenina?
Santos
Santos signed her on three-month loans between her American seasons; in 2009 she scored in a 9-0 Libertadores final and twice in the Copa do Brasil final as the club won both.
Q 26Marta's salary at Tyresö FF from 2012 was said by the club's owners to be paid by whom?
External sponsors
External sponsors covered her wages, the owners said, but the money ran out: the club went bankrupt in June 2014, a month after playing in the Champions League final, and every player became a free agent.
Q 27Marta scored twice in the 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League final, but Tyresö lost 4–3 to which German club?
Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg trailed 2-0 at half-time and 3-2 after Marta's second goal, yet won 4-3 in Lisbon; she scored against them again a year later for another club and lost once more, on away goals.
Q 28Marta won her first NWSL title in 2024 when the Pride beat which team 1–0 in the championship game?
Washington Spirit
Washington Spirit lost 1-0 to a first-half goal in Kansas City, which gave Orlando a double with the NWSL Shield and their 38-year-old captain, Marta, the first NWSL title of her career.
Q 29What injury kept Marta out of the whole 2022 NWSL regular season?
An ACL tear in her left knee
An ACL tear in her left knee came in a Challenge Cup game in March 2022, weeks after she was named Orlando's captain; she returned in 2023 at the age of 37 and was a champion a year later.
Q 30Marta gained citizenship of which second country in March 2017?
Sweden
Sweden granted her citizenship in March 2017 after years of club football there, a month before she left its league for Orlando; having already played for Brazil, she could not switch national teams.