Serie A Trivia
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59 free Serie a trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Serie A has been played as a national league since 1929, and the Italian championship goes back to a single afternoon in Turin in 1898. This quiz covers the whole span: Genoa's early titles, Ambrosiana winning the first Serie A, the Grande Torino, Gunnar Nordahl's five scoring titles, Bologna's play-off in 1964, Verona's miracle in 1985, Maradona's Napoli, Sacchi and Capello's Milan, the Calciopoli scandal that sent Juventus to Serie B, Inter's treble and Juventus's nine consecutive scudetti. There are questions on the trophy and the shield, the capocannoniere award, the derbies of Milan, Rome and Italy, and the record holders: Silvio Piola's 274 goals, Francesco Totti's 250 and 162 assists, Gianluigi Buffon's ten titles and 299 clean sheets, Paolo Maldini's 25 seasons, Giovanni Trapattoni's seven titles as a coach and Rafael Leão's 6.2-second goal. If you want the continental picture, our Champions League quiz picks up where this one leaves off. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who watches Italian football, a third are medium and the rest are for people who know which club has spent the most seasons in Serie B. Every answer is checked against the league's reference and record pages, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01Árpád Weisz, who coached the first Serie A champions in 1929-30, came from which country?
Hungary
Hungary's Árpád Weisz was 34 when he won that first title; because he was Jewish, Italy's 1938 racial laws drove him abroad, and he was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.
Q 02Which club won the first Italian Football Championship, played in Turin in a single day in 1898?
Genoa
Genoa won the final 2-1 after extra time and took six of the first seven titles, yet their ninth championship, in 1924, is still their last.
Q 03Which name did Internazionale carry when they won the inaugural Serie A season?
Ambrosiana
Ambrosiana was a name imposed for political reasons: in 1928 the Fascist regime made Inter merge with US Milanese and drop the word Internazionale, which returned only in 1945.
Q 04Which Frenchman did Juventus sell to Real Madrid in 2001 for a world-record fee?
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane's fee stood as the world record for eight years, and Juventus, rebuilt around the players bought that summer, won the Serie A title the very next season.
Q 05The 'scudetto' worn by champions the following season means what in Italian?
Little shield
Little shield is the literal meaning, but the badge gave Italian its word for the title itself: to 'win the scudetto' is simply to win the league.
Q 06Which Italian poet is generally credited with inventing the scudetto?
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio had players wear a tricolour badge for a match in occupied Fiume in February 1920, and the federation adopted the idea for its champions in 1924.
Q 07A gold star above a Serie A club's crest marks which achievement?
Ten league titles
Ten league titles earn a star: Juventus sewed on the first in 1958 after their tenth championship, and clubs around the world have since copied the idea.
Q 08Which Juventus playmaker was Serie A's top scorer three seasons running from 1983?
Michel Platini
Michel Platini's arrival in 1982 cost Liam Brady his place, because Italian clubs could then field only two non-Italian players and Juventus had just signed Zbigniew Boniek as well.
Q 09Who was Serie A's top scorer as Napoli won the 2022-23 title?
Victor Osimhen
Victor Osimhen scored 26 league goals in the protective mask he had worn since a clash of heads fractured his eye socket in 2021; it became his trademark.
Q 10Why was the 1947-48 Serie A season played with an unusual 21 teams?
Post-war tensions with Yugoslavia
Post-war tensions with Yugoslavia over Trieste led the federation to reprieve relegated Triestina, making 21 teams; the spared side then finished joint second.
Q 11If the first half of a Serie A season is the andata, what is the second?
Ritorno
The second half is the ritorno, the return leg of every fixture; the two halves used the same order until an asymmetrical calendar arrived in 2021-22.
Q 12The only play-off ever needed to decide the Serie A champion, in 1963-64, was won by which club?
Bologna
Bologna beat Inter 2-0 in Rome after both finished on 54 points; three weeks earlier a doping ruling that had docked Bologna points was annulled on appeal.
Q 13Serie A adopted which change in 1994-95?
Three points for a win
Three points for a win was meant to stop teams settling for draws: the Football League adopted it in 1981 after Jimmy Hill lobbied for it, and Serie A followed in 1994-95.
Q 21Which playmaker steered Juventus to an unbeaten Serie A title in 2011-12?
Andrea Pirlo
Andrea Pirlo joined on a free transfer after ten years at Milan, and Juventus went all 38 games unbeaten, the first side to manage it in a season that long.
Q 22Fabio Capello's AC Milan side of the early 1990s was known by what nickname?
The Invincibles
The Invincibles went 58 league games unbeaten, including the whole of Fabio Capello's first season in 1991-92, until a Faustino Asprilla goal beat them in March 1993.
Q 23Which entrepreneur bought AC Milan in 1986, saved it from bankruptcy and hired Arrigo Sacchi?
Silvio Berlusconi
Q 14Which Italian energy giant became Serie A's title sponsor in 2024, taking over from TIM?
Eni
Eni put the name of its fuel and mobility arm on the competition, which became Serie A Enilive, ending the phone company TIM's long run as title sponsor.
Q 15Which UK broadcaster showed live Serie A as 'Football Italia' from 1992 to 2002?
Channel 4
Channel 4's Saturday companion show had presenter James Richardson leafing through Italy's sports papers at a cafe table, usually with a cappuccino or an ice cream.
Q 16The 2004-05 title was revoked from Juventus after which scandal?
Calciopoli
Calciopoli, the 2006 scandal over wiretapped calls about referee appointments, also sent Juventus down to Serie B for the first time in their history.
Q 17Which Juventus general manager's wiretapped calls were at the centre of the 2006 refereeing scandal?
Luciano Moggi
Luciano Moggi's wiretapped calls to the officials who appointed referees were the core of the 2006 case; he was later banned from football for life.
Q 18Which goalkeeper stayed with Juventus for their 2006-07 season in Serie B?
Gianluigi Buffon
Gianluigi Buffon stayed weeks after winning the World Cup while stars such as Patrick Vieira and Lilian Thuram left, and Juventus went straight back up as champions.
Q 19Which defender won all nine of Juventus's consecutive titles from 2012 to 2020?
Giorgio Chiellini
Giorgio Chiellini won all nine in a row, a record for any player; Leonardo Bonucci missed one by spending the 2017-18 season at AC Milan before returning.
Q 20Which striker, signed from Manchester City, was Juventus's top scorer in 2013-14?
Carlos Tevez
Carlos Tevez scored 19 league goals in the number 10 shirt left vacant since Alessandro Del Piero's exit, as Juventus won 33 of their 38 games.
Silvio Berlusconi chose Sacchi after the coach's second-division side twice beat Milan in the Coppa Italia, then signed Gullit, Van Basten and Rijkaard for him.
Q 24AC Milan was founded in 1899 by an expatriate from which country?
England
Herbert Kilpin, from Nottingham in England, founded the club in December 1899 and chose red for fire and black for the fear the team would strike into opponents.
Q 25Football Club Internazionale was formed in 1908 by a group who left Milan over what issue?
Accepting foreigners
The name Internazionale advertised the point: the breakaway club was founded on accepting foreigners, unlike the Milan Cricket and Football Club they had left.
Q 26The Milan derby is named after which landmark?
The Duomo's statue
The Duomo's statue of the Madonnina names the Derby della Madonnina; by tradition nothing in Milan may stand higher, so its tallest towers carry replicas of her.
Q 27Journalist Gianni Brera coined which name in 1967 for matches between Inter and Juventus?
Derby d'Italia
Derby d'Italia was Brera's label for a meeting of two clubs from different cities and regions whose supporters are spread all over the country.
Q 28In the Rome derby, which end of the Stadio Olimpico do Lazio's ultras traditionally occupy?
Curva Nord
Lazio's ultras fill the Curva Nord while their city rivals take the Curva Sud; the sfottò, teasing about each other's origins, is part of the ritual.
Q 29Who is Serie A's all-time top scorer with 274 goals?
Silvio Piola
Silvio Piola's record has stood since his last game in 1954; the stadiums in Vercelli and Novara, the cities where his career began and ended, both now bear his name.
Q 30Which Argentine striker's goals fired Roma to the 2000-01 Serie A title?
Gabriel Batistuta
Gabriel Batistuta was in tears after scoring against the club he had just left, saying he could take no joy in beating his former team-mates.