Serie A 2025-26 Season Quiz — Italian Football’s Final Standings

🇮🇹 Serie A · 35 Questions · Updated May 2026

Serie A gave football Maradona in Naples, the Juventus dynasty, Maldini’s AC Milan, and some of the sport’s most storied clubs. From the 2006 Calciopoli scandal to Napoli’s emotional 2022-23 title win, Italian football never stops delivering drama. Test your knowledge with these 35 Serie A trivia questions. Also explore our Champions League records quiz — Italian clubs AC Milan, Juventus, and Inter have all made their mark in Europe’s elite competition.

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Easy Serie A Trivia (Questions 1–10)

Easy

1. Q: How many clubs compete in Serie A each season?
   A: 20 clubs — each playing 38 matches (19 home, 19 away) per season.
2. Q: What is the Serie A championship trophy called?
   A: The Scudetto — meaning “little shield” in Italian. The champions wear a Scudetto badge on their shirts the following season.
3. Q: Which club has won the most Serie A titles?
   A: Juventus — with 36 Serie A titles (though 2 were officially stripped in 2006 following the Calciopoli scandal, the club counts them all).
4. Q: Which club won the 2023-24 Serie A title — their 20th Scudetto?
   A: Inter Milan — they clinched the title in a Derby della Madonnina victory over AC Milan, completing a dominant season under Simone Inzaghi.
5. Q: Napoli won Serie A in 2022-23 for the first time in how many years?
   A: 33 years — their previous title was in 1989-90, the last of Diego Maradona’s era at the club. The 2022-23 win was a massive emotional occasion for Napoli fans.
6. Q: Which legendary Italian attacker, known as “Il Capitano,” spent his entire career at AS Roma?
   A: Francesco Totti — captain of Roma for most of his career (1989-2017), he became one of Italian football’s greatest icons and scored 250+ Serie A goals for the club.
7. Q: Which Italian club plays at the San Siro stadium — and which other club shares it?
   A: AC Milan and Inter Milan both play at the San Siro (officially Stadio Giuseppe Meazza), one of football’s most iconic venues.
8. Q: Which Argentine striker was famous for winning two Serie A titles with Napoli in the 1980s?
   A: Diego Maradona — he joined Napoli in 1984 and led them to their first two Italian titles (1987, 1990), transforming a club that had never won the championship into champions.
9. Q: How many consecutive Juventus Serie A titles were won between 2012 and 2020?
   A: Nine consecutive Serie A titles — from 2011-12 to 2019-20, Juventus dominated Italian football completely in what became known as the nine-peat era.
10. Q: Which goalkeeper played most of his career for Juventus and holds the record for most Italy appearances?
    A: Gianluigi Buffon — he made 176 appearances for Italy (a world record for a goalkeeper at the time) and played for Juventus from 2001 to 2018 and again in 2019-21.

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Medium Serie A Trivia (Questions 11–25)

Medium

11. Q: The Calciopoli scandal in 2006 rocked Italian football. Which clubs were most severely punished?
    A: Juventus were stripped of their 2004-05 and 2005-06 Serie A titles and relegated to Serie B. AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio, and Reggina also received points deductions. The scandal involved match-fixing through referee selection manipulation.
12. Q: Who is AC Milan’s all-time greatest defender, often cited as one of the best centre-backs in football history?
    A: Paolo Maldini — who spent his entire career at AC Milan (1984-2009), winning 7 Serie A titles and 5 Champions League/European Cup titles.
13. Q: Which Serbian striker is Juventus’s first-choice centre-forward in the 2025-26 season?
    A: Dušan Vlahović — signed from Fiorentina in January 2022, he has become Juventus’s primary goal threat in their attempts to recapture Serie A dominance.
14. Q: AC Milan won the 2021-22 Serie A title — their first since which year?
    A: Their first since 2010-11 — an 11-year gap that made the title particularly emotional for Milan fans, with Olivier Giroud and Rafael Leão playing key roles.
15. Q: Which Nigerian striker scored 26 Serie A goals in 2022-23 to power Napoli’s title win?
    A: Victor Osimhen — he won the Capocannoniere (top scorer award) with 26 goals and was later sold to Galatasaray before moves to Saudi Arabia. His departure created a significant gap in Napoli’s attack.
16. Q: Which Argentine striker is Inter Milan’s all-time leading scorer and their 2023-24 Scudetto hero?
    A: Lautaro Martínez — the Argentine forward signed from Racing Club in 2018 and has become one of Serie A’s most clinical strikers.
17. Q: Which Italian club was founded in 1908 by a group who wanted to allow foreign players — and whose name reflects this?
    A: Inter Milan (Internazionale Milano) — founded by a breakaway group from AC Milan, the “International” name directly references their founding principle of welcoming non-Italian players.
18. Q: Roberto Baggio famously missed a penalty to cost Italy the 1994 World Cup Final. Which Serie A clubs did he most notably play for?
    A: Multiple clubs — Baggio played for Fiorentina, Juventus, AC Milan, Bologna, Inter Milan, Brescia, and more throughout his career. He is most associated with Juventus during his peak years.
19. Q: Serie A’s top scorer award is called what?
    A: The Capocannoniere — meaning “top gun” or “master gunner” in Italian. Victor Osimhen won it in 2022-23 with 26 goals.
20. Q: Which famous derby is known as the “Derby della Madonnina”?
    A: The AC Milan vs Inter Milan derby — named after the golden Madonna statue atop Milan’s Duomo cathedral. It is one of world football’s most passionate local derbies.
21. Q: Alessandro Del Piero was the face of which Italian club for over two decades?
    A: Juventus — Del Piero played for the club from 1993 to 2012, scoring 290 goals across all competitions and becoming one of Italian football’s most beloved figures.
22. Q: Which northern Italian city is Juventus based in?
    A: Turin — one of Italy’s major industrial cities and the home of both Juventus (the Allianz Stadium) and Torino FC (the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino).
23. Q: What innovative tactical system did Arrigo Sacchi employ at AC Milan in the late 1980s that influenced modern football?
    A: Sacchi’s Milan used an extremely high defensive line and intense pressing without the ball — a radical departure from the era’s norm. This system influenced modern football’s pressing and zonal marking approaches worldwide.
24. Q: The “Derby d’Italia” between Juventus and Inter Milan is one of Serie A’s biggest fixtures. What does the name mean?
    A: The “Derby of Italy” — considered the most important club clash in Italian football as the two most successful Serie A clubs, representing Turin and Milan.
25. Q: Internazionale (Inter Milan) completed the treble in 2009-10 under José Mourinho. What three trophies did they win?
    A: Serie A, Coppa Italia, and Champions League — the only treble in Italian football history. Inter won the UCL Final against Bayern Munich 2-0, with Mourinho departing for Real Madrid immediately after.

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Hard Serie A Trivia (Questions 26–35)

Hard

26. Q: The “Grande Torino” of the late 1940s was considered Italy’s greatest team before a tragedy. What happened?
    A: The Superga air disaster (May 4, 1949) — the entire Torino FC first-team squad, which had won five consecutive Serie A titles, was killed when their plane crashed into the Basilica di Superga hill near Turin returning from a friendly match.
27. Q: How did Napoli celebrate their 2022-23 Serie A title win, given the emotional connection to Diego Maradona?
    A: Napoli fans celebrated with extraordinary passion — the city erupted in scenes comparable to Maradona’s titles in 1987 and 1990. Stadium ceremonies featured tributes to Maradona, who had passed away in November 2020.
28. Q: Which Serie A record involving an unbeaten run was set in 2006-07 — and by which club?
    A: Inter Milan went the entire 2006-07 Serie A season unbeaten — winning the league without losing a match, equaling what AC Milan achieved in 1991-92.
29. Q: AC Milan have won the Champions League/European Cup how many times — and what is their record in the final specifically?
    A: AC Milan have won it seven times: 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, and 2007. Only Real Madrid (15 titles) have won Europe’s premier club competition more often.
30. Q: Zlatan Ibrahimović played in Serie A for multiple clubs across two separate periods. Name them all.
    A: Juventus (2004-06), Inter Milan (2006-09), AC Milan (2010-12), and AC Milan again (2019-22) — his Italian career spanned 18 years across four spells with three clubs.
31. Q: Juventus’s 9 consecutive Serie A titles (2012-2020) — what ended the streak?
    A: Inter Milan ended the streak by winning the 2020-21 Serie A title under Antonio Conte, Juventus’s former manager. It was Inter’s first Scudetto since 2009-10, when Mourinho led them to the treble.
32. Q: Which city hosts the “Derby del Sole” — a historically significant Serie A derby between two clubs from different southern Italian cities?
    A: The Derby del Sole (Sun Derby) is the fixture between Napoli and Roma — clubs from Naples and Rome, two of southern and central Italy’s most significant cities. It is one of Serie A’s most charged matches outside the northern derbies.
33. Q: Serie A has faced challenges around stadium infrastructure. What distinguishes Italian stadiums from English and German ones?
    A: Most Italian clubs play in aging, municipally-owned stadiums — unlike England and Germany where clubs own their grounds. This limits commercial revenue and matchday income, contributing to Serie A’s declining financial position relative to the Premier League.
34. Q: Which Serie A club has the largest global social media following — and why is their global fanbase so large?
    A: Juventus — with 70+ million social media followers, their historic international signings (Zidane, Del Piero, Buffon, Pirlo, and Cristiano Ronaldo 2018-2021) helped build a massive global fanbase far larger than any other Italian club.
35. Q: In which year were the first five consecutive Grande Torino Scudettos won — and what years specifically?
    A: Grande Torino won five consecutive Serie A titles from 1942-43, 1945-46, 1946-47, 1947-48, and 1948-49 (with no 1943-44 and 1944-45 seasons due to World War II). The disaster at Superga ended the dynasty abruptly.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Serie A in 2022-23?

Napoli won the 2022-23 Serie A title — their first Scudetto in 33 years. The win was an emotional moment for the city of Naples, with the previous titles coming in 1987 and 1990 under Diego Maradona.

What was the Calciopoli scandal?

Calciopoli (2006) was Italy’s biggest football scandal — match-fixing through referee selection manipulation. Juventus were stripped of two Serie A titles and relegated to Serie B. AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio, and Reggina received points deductions. It coincided with Italy’s 2006 World Cup victory in Germany.

Which Serie A club has won the most titles?

Juventus with 36 official Serie A titles — though 2 were stripped in the Calciopoli scandal. Inter Milan have 20 titles and AC Milan have 19. The three clubs have dominated Italian football since the league’s founding in 1929.

Did Maradona win the Serie A title at Napoli?

Yes — twice. Diego Maradona joined Napoli in 1984 and led them to their first two Serie A titles: 1986-87 and 1989-90. He transformed a club that had never won the Italian championship into champions, and is still revered as a god in Naples.

How many Champions League titles has AC Milan won?

AC Milan have won the Champions League/European Cup seven times: 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, and 2007. Only Real Madrid (15 titles) have won Europe’s premier club competition more often.

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