Football quiz incoming.
Every four years, the World Cup goes to one lucky country – and one player from the tournament is crowned the best in the competition with a Golden Ball award. It often goes to an era-defining superstar (not necessarily always).
Today, we don’t just want you to name every player to have won the biggest individual prize at the World Cup, but the Silver and Bronze balls, too (for second and third, obvs). Eight minutes at the ready, with 33 players to guess over the last 11 World Cups. Go!
Handpicked football quizzes we know you’ll love
Ready for more quizzes?. To see if your mental stamina can survive a summer of back-to-back matchdays, we’ve drawn up a lineup of teasers designed to test your awareness of the modern masterminds pulling the strings and the icons who have defined the grandest stage on Earth – courtesy of Kwizly.
We’re launching straight into the current tournament’s technical area and its most ruthless finishers. With tactical battles unfolding daily across Canada, Mexico, and the United States, we want to see if you can identify the brains in the dugout by naming every manager at World Cup 2026. Once you’ve mapped out the tactical bosses, shift your focus to the ultimate cheat code of modern football by seeing if you can get 100 per cent in our Erling Haaland quiz, to celebrate the Nordic marksman lighting up his very first World Cup with a flurry of goals.
If the past is more your thing, take a nostalgia trip exactly twenty years into the past to test your memory on Zinedine Zidane’s dramatic curtain call and Italy’s Berlin triumph with The Big 2006 World Cup Quiz. After conquering the archives of that iconic tournament, bring your focus back to domestic icons and try to name every England player with over 50 caps: an exhaustive trial of international longevity that separates armchair analysts from the true historians who remember every stalwart to earn a half-century of international honours.
To lower your pulse after navigating that massive statistical workout, find a quiet spot in the dugout for FourFourTwo’s Weekend Crossword 59, featuring a brilliantly niche focus on 80s heroes, midfield maestros, and non-FIFA nations. To ensure you stay one step ahead of the late tactical shifts as the knockout rounds loom, subscribe to our newsletter for your daily afternoon briefing of hand-picked trivia. To truly secure your legacy this summer, make sure you’ve joined The Club, our free membership hub that serves as your digital dugout, where you can unlock secret hints for the toughest quizzes, fight for the top of the global leaderboards, and join the debate in the comments section as the tournament drama unfolds.