Premier League Trivia
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56 free Premier League trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
57 free Premier League trivia questions with answers. The Premier League has been running since 1992, and it has generated more pub arguments per season than any competition on earth. This quiz covers the lot: the breakaway from the Football League and the Sky deal that funded it, Blackburn's one title, Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten run, Leicester's 5000/1 miracle, and the Agüero moment that decided a title on goal difference. The records section is where it gets hard. Who has the most red cards? Which goalkeeper has 202 clean sheets? Who scored a hat-trick in under three minutes? If you can get those, you are ready for any quiz night. Every answer has been checked against a primary reference and each question carries its citation, so if a mate insists Shearer's world-record move was £12 million, you can settle it on the spot.
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Q 01Which former European champions finished bottom of the first Premier League season?
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest went down with 40 points, and Brian Clough, who had won them two European Cups, retired after 18 years in charge.
Q 02Which broadcaster won the first Premier League live rights with a £304 million, five-year bid?
BSkyB
BSkyB's £304 million bid, made in alliance with the BBC, beat ITV; the BBC got the Match of the Day highlights.
Q 03Who scored the very first Premier League goal, on 15 August 1992?
Brian Deane
Brian Deane headed in after five minutes against Manchester United and added a second-half penalty in the 2-1 win.
Q 04Which club, third in the 1992-93 Premier League, went down in 1995?
Norwich City
Norwich City were one of four clubs relegated as the league shrank from 22 clubs to 20; two seasons earlier they had been surprise title contenders.
Q 05Which club was ever-present in the Premier League from 1992 until its first relegation in 2016?
Aston Villa
Aston Villa's relegation was its first since 1987, and the club spent three seasons in the Championship under two different owners before returning.
Q 06Which lager brand was the Premier League's first title sponsor, from 1993 to 2001?
Carling
Carling gave its name to the FA Carling Premiership for eight seasons; the league dropped title sponsors altogether in 2016 and has been plain 'Premier League' since.
Q 07Who is the Premier League's all-time record goalscorer, with 260 goals?
Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer scored his 260 goals across 14 Premier League seasons, yet he won the title only once before retiring in 2006.
Q 08Which club paid a world-record £15m in 1996 for the Premier League's future record scorer?
Newcastle United
Newcastle United were his hometown club; Manchester United also bid, but he said the challenge of returning home had made up his mind.
Q 09Which club held off Manchester United on the final day to win its only Premier League title in 1994-95?
Blackburn Rovers
Blackburn Rovers, bankrolled by steel magnate Jack Walker, lost at Liverpool on the final day but still took the title, then were relegated four years later.
Q 10Which manager, appointed by Jack Walker in 1991, won the 1994-95 Premier League title?
Kenny Dalglish
Kenny Dalglish moved upstairs to Director of Football after the title and handed the team to his assistant, Ray Harford.
Q 11At what pre-season odds did bookmakers price Leicester City to win the 2015-16 Premier League?
5000/1
Leicester were 5000/1 before the season; they were confirmed champions on 2 May 2016 when their closest rivals could only draw at Chelsea.
Q 12Jamie Vardy set which Premier League record during Leicester's title-winning season?
Most consecutive matches scored in
Most consecutive matches scored in: Vardy made it 11 in a row against Manchester United, the old club of Ruud van Nistelrooy, whose record of 10 he broke.
Q 13Which club was Jamie Vardy playing for before Leicester paid a non-League record £1 million for him in 2012?
Fleetwood Town
Q 21Which player scored in each of the first 21 Premier League seasons and holds the record for most assists?
Ryan Giggs
Ryan Giggs's scoring streak ended only in his final season, 2013-14, which he finished as Manchester United's interim player-manager.
Q 22Which goalkeeper holds the record for most Premier League clean sheets, with 202?
Petr Čech
Petr Čech fractured his skull in a collision during a 2006 match, returned three months later and wore a rugby-style headguard for the rest of his career.
Q 23Who scored the fastest goal in Premier League history, timed at 7.69 seconds?
Shane Long
Shane Long blocked a clearance straight from Watford's kick-off and lifted the ball over the keeper, beating the 9.82 seconds Ledley King had managed in 2000.
Fleetwood Town sold him in May 2012 after his 31 league goals won them the Conference title; he had been released by Sheffield Wednesday at 16.
Q 14Arsenal's unbeaten 2003-04 'Invincibles' matched a feat last achieved in 1888-89 by which club?
Preston North End
Preston North End went unbeaten over 22 games in the very first Football League season; Arsenal's 38-game run of 26 wins and 12 draws earned a one-off gold trophy.
Q 15At which ground did Arsenal's record 49-game unbeaten league run end in October 2004?
Old Trafford
Old Trafford staged the 2-0 defeat remembered as the 'Battle of the Buffet', after a slice of pizza hit the home manager in the tunnel afterwards.
Q 16Which manager's side became the first to reach 100 points in a Premier League season, in 2017-18?
Pep Guardiola
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City reached 100 with virtually the last kick of the season, when substitute Gabriel Jesus scored the only goal of the final game.
Q 17Which club's 11 points in 2007-08 is the fewest ever in a 38-game Premier League season?
Derby County
Derby County won just once all season and were relegated on 29 March with six games left, the first Premier League club to go down in March.
Q 18Which player has made the most Premier League appearances as a substitute?
James Milner
James Milner was the league's youngest scorer at 16 in 2002 and its oldest penalty scorer at 39 in 2025, coming off the bench more than 200 times in between.
Q 19Who was the first player to reach 12 Premier League hat-tricks?
Sergio Agüero
Sergio Agüero's 12 included five goals in one game in 2015, all scored after City had gone a goal down.
Q 20Who scored the fastest hat-trick in Premier League history, in 2 minutes 56 seconds in May 2015?
Sadio Mané
Sadio Mané broke a record Robbie Fowler had held for Liverpool since 1994, and a year later he joined Liverpool himself.
Q 24Manchester United's 1998-99 side was the first English club to win which treble?
League, FA Cup, Champions League
The trio was League, FA Cup, Champions League; the last leg came via two stoppage-time goals against Bayern Munich in Barcelona.
Q 25Manchester City won the 2012 title with two stoppage-time goals against which club?
Queens Park Rangers
Queens Park Rangers, down to ten men, led 2-1 after 90 minutes; City's two late goals won a first title in 44 years, on goal difference from Manchester United.
Q 26Sheikh Mansour bought Manchester City in 2008 through a group based in which emirate?
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi United Group agreed the takeover on 1 September 2008, and that same day City broke the British transfer record to sign Robinho for £32.5m.
Q 27Whose two goals against West Ham on the final day of 2023-24 sealed Manchester City's record fourth straight title?
Phil Foden
Phil Foden's goals kept Arsenal, two points behind that morning and hoping for a slip, at arm's length; at 23 he became the youngest player with six Premier League titles.
Q 28Who captained Liverpool to the 2019-20 title, ending the club's 30-year wait?
Jordan Henderson
Jordan Henderson's side sealed it with seven games to spare, the earliest finish on record, yet on the latest date, 25 June, because the pandemic had halted the season.
Q 29Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003 from which chairman?
Ken Bates
Ken Bates had bought Chelsea for a nominal £1 in 1982 and, 21 years later, sold a club carrying debts of around £80m.
Q 30Eric Cantona's 'kung-fu' kick into the crowd in January 1995 came in an away match at which club?
Crystal Palace
The match was at Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park; he was banned for eight months and a two-week prison sentence was reduced on appeal to 120 hours of community service.