Tottenham Hotspur Trivia
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47 free Tottenham Hotspur trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Tottenham Hotspur were formed by cricket-club schoolboys in 1882, named after a Shakespearean rebel, and became the only non-League club to win the FA Cup since the League began. This quiz covers the whole story: Bobby Buckle and John Ripsher, the misdelivered post that forced a name change, the Southern League title, the 1901 Cup, Peter McWilliam, Arthur Rowe's push and run and the 1951 title, Danny Blanchflower, Bill Nicholson's Double and the first British European trophy, Jimmy Greaves, the 1972 UEFA Cup, Ardiles and Villa, Irving Scholar's flotation, Venables and Sugar, Gazza and Lineker's 1991 Cup, ENIC, Redknapp, Pochettino's Champions League final, the Wembley years and the new stadium, Kane's record, Postecoglou's Europa League and the managerial churn that followed. Early questions suit anyone who has sung 'Glory Glory'; later ones are for Lilywhites who know their Paxton Road from their Park Lane: what colours the 'Tottenham Reds' wore, why the cockerel is on the badge, who cast the original bronze bird, and how the 'angels' of 1961 gave the fans their anthem. Good for a supporters' club night or a north London pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the club, its grounds and its records, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01The schoolboys who formed Hotspur Football Club in 1882 were members of what?
A cricket team of the same name
The Hotspur Cricket Club, a cricket team of the same name, wanted a winter sport for its boys, and both clubs honoured Harry Hotspur, the knight whose family held land in Tottenham.
Q 02Spurs left which ground for White Hart Lane?
Northumberland Park
Northumberland Park was the club's first enclosed ground, where it could charge admission from 1888; a record 14,000 squeezed in for one game in 1898, prompting the move to a bigger site.
Q 03Which Bible class teacher at All Hallows Church became Spurs' first president and treasurer in 1883?
John Ripsher
John Ripsher guided the club through its first eleven years, yet died blind and penniless in a Dover workhouse in 1907; Spurs rededicated his unmarked grave a century later.
Q 04Why did Hotspur FC add 'Tottenham' to its name in 1884?
Another London club shared its name
Another London club shared its name, an older side also called Hotspur, and post meant for one kept reaching the other, so the boys added their district's name.
Q 05Before adopting white shirts in 1898-99, Spurs briefly wore stripes in which colours?
Chocolate and gold
Chocolate and gold stripes replaced red shirts in the mid-1890s, which means the club now known for white once wore the colour of its fiercest rival.
Q 06Spurs' 1901 FA Cup win made them the only winners since 1888 who were what at the time?
Outside the Football League
Outside the Football League, Southern League Spurs still beat First Division Sheffield United 3-1 in a replay, a feat no non-League club has matched since.
Q 07Which manager led Spurs to their second FA Cup in 1921 with a 1-0 win over Wolves?
Peter McWilliam
Peter McWilliam's side won 1-0 at Stamford Bridge with a Jimmy Dimmock goal, and the Cup profits paid for a covered terrace at the Paxton Road end.
Q 08Arthur Rowe's Spurs won the club's first top-flight title in 1950-51 playing a style known as what?
Push and run
Rowe's push and run style of quick short passes and movement won the Second Division in 1949-50 and the league title in 1950-51; he resigned through ill health in 1955.
Q 09Spurs' 1960-61 Double season began with a top-flight record start of how many straight wins?
11
Spurs won their first 11 matches of 1960-61, a record start to a top-flight season, and had the title won with three games to spare.
Q 10The 1961 Double was completed with a 2-0 FA Cup final win over which club?
Leicester City
Leicester City lost full-back Len Chalmers to injury early on and, with no substitutes allowed, played on with ten fit men until Spurs scored twice late in the game.
Q 11Spurs became the first British club to win a European trophy in 1963, beating which side 5-1?
Atlético Madrid
Atlético Madrid were the holders, yet Spurs beat them 5-1 in Rotterdam, with winger Terry Dyson scoring twice.
Q 12Spurs opened their first European Cup campaign in 1961 by overturning a 4-2 defeat at which Polish club?
Górnik Zabrze
Górnik Zabrze led 4-2 from the first leg, but Spurs won the return 8-1 at White Hart Lane, the first of the European 'glory, glory' nights the club still celebrates.
Q 13For European ties in the 1960s, Bill Nicholson started a Spurs tradition of wearing what?
White shorts instead of navy
Q 21Which manager won Spurs the 2008 League Cup?
Juande Ramos
Juande Ramos won the final 2-1 against Chelsea after extra time, yet was sacked eight months later with Spurs bottom of the league on two points from eight games.
Q 22Who managed Spurs to second place in 2016-17, their best finish since 1963?
Mauricio Pochettino
Mauricio Pochettino's side went unbeaten at home in White Hart Lane's final season and took a club-record 86 points, yet the title still went elsewhere.
Q 23In February 2023 Harry Kane displaced whom as Tottenham's all-time record goalscorer?
Jimmy Greaves
Kane's 267th goal, against Manchester City on 5 February 2023, passed Jimmy Greaves's club record of 266 that had stood since 1970; Kane left for Bayern Munich that summer with 280.
White shorts instead of navy made an all-white strip; the story that it copied Real Madrid has no evidence behind it, and it may simply have shown up better under floodlights.
Q 14Spurs' 1967 FA Cup final win at Wembley was notable as what?
The first all-London final
The first all-London final, dubbed the 'Cockney Cup Final', saw Spurs beat Chelsea 2-1 through Jimmy Robertson and Frank Saul, and the clubs' rivalry is often dated from that day.
Q 15Which two Argentinians did Keith Burkinshaw sign for Spurs after the 1978 World Cup?
Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa
Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa arrived together in July 1978, weeks after Argentina's World Cup win; Villa's solo goal won the 1981 FA Cup final replay against Manchester City.
Q 16In 1983 Tottenham Hotspur became the first football club to do what?
List on a stock market
List on a stock market: Tottenham floated its shares the year after Irving Scholar took control of a club that was millions of pounds in debt.
Q 17Which businessman teamed up with manager Terry Venables in 1991 to buy Spurs?
Alan Sugar
Alan Sugar saw off a rival bid from Robert Maxwell, but the partnership soured and in 1993 he sacked Venables, an affair that dragged through the courts for years.
Q 18Whose long-range free kick opened the scoring in Spurs' 1991 FA Cup semi-final at Wembley?
Paul Gascoigne
Paul Gascoigne's free kick opened a 3-1 win over Arsenal, but he ruptured knee ligaments with a wild tackle early in the final and was out of football for a year.
Q 19Spurs' new Umbro kit of 1991 was notable for which innovation?
Long-cut shorts
Long-cut shorts, baggy at a time when football shorts sat well above the knee, arrived with the Umbro strip that marked Spurs' 1991 FA Cup win.
Q 20ENIC, which took control of Spurs in 2001, was owned by which Bahamas-based billionaire?
Joe Lewis
Joe Lewis, a currency trader, left the running of the club to his partner Daniel Levy and in 2022 moved his stake into family trusts, which still owned Spurs in late 2025.
Q 24Spurs ended a 17-year trophy drought by beating which club 1-0 in the 2025 Europa League final?
Manchester United
Manchester United lost to a scrappy first-half Brennan Johnson goal in Bilbao, yet Ange Postecoglou was still sacked after Spurs finished 17th in the league.
Q 25Which coach's brief reign at Spurs in 2026 fell between Thomas Frank's sacking and Roberto De Zerbi's arrival?
Igor Tudor
Igor Tudor was the second coach hired and fired that season; De Zerbi then kept Spurs up, though only in 17th place for a second year running.
Q 26Spurs leased the site of White Hart Lane in 1899 from a company in which trade?
Brewing
Brewing: the firm owned the disused nursery behind the White Hart pub, and remains of the greenhouses still turned up when the pitch was relaid in 1952.
Q 27Which club were the first visitors to White Hart Lane, losing a 1899 friendly 4-1 in front of 5,000?
Notts County
Notts County were the first visitors, losing a friendly 4-1 on 4 September 1899 before about 5,000; QPR were the first competitive visitors five days later and lost 1-0.
Q 28White Hart Lane's record attendance of 75,038 was set in March 1938 for a cup tie against which club?
Sunderland
The 75,038 crowd watched an FA Cup sixth-round tie against Sunderland on 5 March 1938; after all-seater conversion the old ground held roughly 36,000.
Q 29The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium opened on 3 April 2019 with a 2-0 Premier League win over which club?
Crystal Palace
Son Heung-min scored the first goal at the new ground and Christian Eriksen added a second in the 2-0 win over Crystal Palace; Spurs had played 2017-18 and most of 2018-19 at Wembley.
Q 30Which terrace along the side of White Hart Lane was the traditional home of Spurs' most vocal fans?
The Shelf
The Shelf ran along the East Stand rather than behind a goal, where most clubs' loudest fans gather, and it survived until the stand went all-seater in 1994.