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40 free Women's Soccer trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Women's football has a century of history that most fans have never been told: munitions-factory teams drawing 53,000 in 1920, a governing body that then banned the game for two generations, an Olympic final settled by a rule that no longer exists, and a first World Cup whose matches did not even run the full 90. These 40 questions stay off the well-worn World Cup trail. They cover the pioneers and the ban, the Olympic tournaments, the Champions League and the clubs that have dominated it, the WSL and NWSL, the Ballon d'Or Féminin, record crowds and record fees, the coaches who shaped national teams and the players whose stories go beyond the obvious names. Every answer comes with a one-line explanation that adds something you did not know. Play it to test how deep your knowledge really runs, or print it for a trivia night, a classroom or a pre-match bus.
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Q 01Jamaica's Reggae Girlz are bankrolled by Cedella, the daughter of which reggae legend?
Bob Marley
Bob Marley's daughter Cedella funds and champions the team, which became the first Caribbean nation to reach a Women's World Cup in 2019 and the knockout rounds in 2023.
Q 02Which stadium set the official women's attendance record of 91,648 at a 2022 Champions League semi-final?
Camp Nou
Camp Nou set the record as Barcelona beat Wolfsburg 5–1, a month after 91,553 had watched the same ground host a quarter-final against Real Madrid.
Q 03For roughly how long did the FA's 1921 ban on women playing at its members' grounds remain in force?
Nearly fifty years
Nearly fifty years: the FA declared football 'quite unsuitable for females' in December 1921 and did not relent until around 1970, stalling a game that had drawn huge crowds.
Q 04Which men's star shared the FIFA 23 global cover with Sam Kerr, the first woman ever given that billing?
Kylian Mbappé
Kylian Mbappé and Sam Kerr fronted FIFA 23 together; Kerr is also the only woman to have finished top scorer in three leagues on three different continents.
Q 05Which Washington Spirit forward, the NWSL's youngest-ever draftee, is the daughter of a famous basketball player?
Trinity Rodman
Trinity Rodman is Dennis Rodman's daughter; drafted at 18, she scored three goals at the Paris 2024 Olympics as the Americans won gold.
Q 06Julie Ertz, a World Cup winner in 2015 and 2019, is married to Zach Ertz, a star in which American sports league?
NFL
The NFL tight end and the two-time world champion are one of sport's rarer couples; Julie was twice named U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year after moving into midfield.
Q 07Which Oscar-winning actress co-founded Angel City FC, the majority-female-owned club that joined the NWSL in 2022?
Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman led the ownership group with Kara Nortman, Julie Uhrman and Alexis Ohanian; a 2024 sale to Bob Iger and Willow Bay valued the club at $250 million.
Q 08Canada were docked six points at Paris 2024 after staff flew a drone over which opponent's closed training session?
New Zealand
New Zealand's session was spied on by a Canadian analyst acting on coaches' orders; head coach Bev Priestman was banned for a year, yet Canada still reached the quarter-finals.
Q 09Which coach won Euro 2017 with the Netherlands, then led England to the Euro 2022 and Euro 2025 titles?
Sarina Wiegman
Sarina Wiegman is the first coach to win the Euros with two different countries, and the first in men's or women's football to reach five consecutive major-tournament finals.
Q 10Dick, Kerr Ladies, who drew 53,000 to Goodison Park on Boxing Day 1920, were a works team from which Lancashire town?
Preston
Preston's Dick, Kerr & Co. munitions factory raised the team in 1917, and that Goodison crowd stood as a women's club record for over 98 years.
Q 11Which Dick, Kerr Ladies winger, credited with 967 goals, was the first woman in the English Football Hall of Fame?
Lily Parr
Lily Parr was the only woman among the Hall's 2002 inaugural inductees, and in 2019 became the first female footballer honoured with a statue in Britain.
Q 12Who, writing under a pseudonym, co-founded the British Ladies' Football Club whose 1895 debut drew 10,000 to Crouch End?
Nettie Honeyball
Nettie Honeyball's real identity is uncertain; the club's chairman and sponsor was Lady Florence Dixie, youngest daughter of the Marquess of Queensberry.
Q 13Brazil legally barred women and girls from playing football from 1941; in which year was that ban finally lifted?
1979
Q 21Which Serie A men's club offered Birgit Prinz a contract in 2003, an offer the German striker turned down?
Perugia
Perugia's approach came right after Prinz had won the 2003 World Cup as its best player and top scorer; she declined, fearing a publicity stunt.
Q 22Which Chinese forward shared FIFA's Female Player of the Century award with Michelle Akers in 2000?
Sun Wen
Sun Wen had just been named best player and top scorer of the 1999 World Cup, and was the first overall pick when America's first pro league held its draft.
Q 23Which Euro 2022 top scorer became the first female footballer named BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
Beth Mead
Only in 1979 did Brazil, by then under military rule, repeal the prohibition, which is why its first great female players emerged so late.
Q 14Unlike the men's Olympic football tournament, restricted to under-23 squads, what age rule governs the women's event?
No age limit
No age limit applies, so the women's Olympic tournament is a full senior competition second only to the World Cup, whereas the men may add just three overage players.
Q 15Brazil's Formiga played at every Olympic women's football tournament from the first to Tokyo 2020 — how many in all?
Seven
Seven Olympics, the last at age 43, plus a record seven World Cups; her nickname means 'ant' because a spectator said she looked like one darting between bigger boys.
Q 16Barbra Banda, the first woman to score back-to-back hat-tricks at an Olympics, captains which African nation?
Zambia
Zambia's captain did it at Tokyo 2020, the country's Olympic debut, having earlier boxed professionally because no amateur would fight her.
Q 17Which coach won Olympic gold with the USA in 2008 and 2012, then managed her native Sweden and later Brazil?
Pia Sundhage
Pia Sundhage appeared on a Swedish postage stamp as a player in 1988, two decades before her first Olympic gold as a coach.
Q 18Which Barcelona midfielder became the first player to win the Ballon d'Or Féminin three times, all in a row?
Aitana Bonmatí
Aitana Bonmatí won in 2023, 2024 and 2025, matching a teammate's back-to-back wins before going one better.
Q 19Which Barcelona captain retained the Ballon d'Or Féminin in 2022 despite tearing her ACL days before Euro 2022 began?
Alexia Putellas
Alexia Putellas had in 2021 become the first woman to take the UEFA, FIFA and Ballon d'Or awards in a single year, then kept all three while injured.
Q 20Which German goalkeeper became the first keeper of either sex named FIFA World Player of the Year, for 2013?
Nadine Angerer
Nadine Angerer earned it by saving two penalties in the Euro 2013 final, six years after going a whole World Cup without conceding once.
Beth Mead beat Ben Stokes to the 2022 award a month after rupturing her ACL, having scored six goals and made five more at the Euros.
Q 24Which England goalkeeper complained at the 2023 World Cup that Nike would not sell a replica of her shirt?
Mary Earps
Mary Earps went on to save a penalty in that final and win the 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, then joined Paris Saint-Germain in 2024.
Q 25Who first won the Women's Champions League as both player and head coach, before taking over Chelsea in 2024?
Sonia Bompastor
Sonia Bompastor completed the double with Lyon in 2022, then in her first Chelsea season went through a 22-game WSL campaign unbeaten.
Q 26Who became England women's first full-time coach in 1998, and in 2003 the first woman to hold a UEFA Pro Licence?
Hope Powell
Hope Powell was 31 when appointed, the youngest, first female and first Black coach of any England team, and she later led Team GB at London 2012.
Q 27Which Dutch striker has scored more goals for the Netherlands than any player, man or woman, including Robin van Persie?
Vivianne Miedema
Vivianne Miedema reached 100 international goals against Wales at Euro 2025, and was also the first player to score 50 goals in the WSL.
Q 28Which centre-back's January 2025 move from San Diego Wave to Chelsea set a world-record fee of about $1.1 million?
Naomi Girma
Naomi Girma, daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, was the first woman to command a fee above a million dollars, having captained Stanford to a national title.
Q 29Which Colombian forward, treated for ovarian cancer at 15, scored against Germany at the 2023 World Cup aged 18?
Linda Caicedo
Linda Caicedo, who joined Real Madrid in 2023, was the first player to appear at Under-17, Under-20 and senior World Cups within a single year.
Q 30Which club won five straight Women's Champions Leagues from 2016 to 2020 and a record 14 consecutive French titles?
Lyon
Lyon's run included a 2019 final settled by Ada Hegerberg's 16-minute hat-trick, and no club has won more French league titles.