world cup quiz test

Welcome to our World Cup quiz.

All you have to do is match the 32 bits of trivia that are unique to the 32 teams that are taking part in the 2022 World Cup.

Take your time, you can answer them in any order and swap the answers around as much as you like. You can even google the answers, if you like - no one's checking. Just have fun with it and share it with others. Good luck!

Start the quiz!

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Select a country for each bit of trivia, when all 32 boxes are filled you'll be able to check how many you've got right.

This country received 65 out of the 200 votes in the final poll to find the host of the 2026 World Cup

 

At 1 minute and 120+1 minutes this country holds both records for the earliest and the latest red cards in a World Cup match

 

He represented Ireland in 1990 but for this World Cup Chris Hughton is part of this country's coaching staff

 

This country qualified for the 2022 World Cup by beating Peru in a penalty shootout

 

The top scorer from the 1998 World Cup played for this country

 

In the 1982 World Cup, this country won the third place play-off, after a semi-final defeat to Italy. It also finished third in 1974.

 

This is the only country to fail to score in a World Cup penalty shootout, in its 2006 defeat to Ukraine

 

This country is the only one to have lost six World Cup quarter finals

 

This country finished above Portugal in its qualification group for this World Cup

 

When FIFA changed the World Cup qualification rules, this country became the first champions to not automatically qualify for the next tournament

 

This country's 2018 group stage victory over Morocco was its first win at a World Cup in 20 years

 

This country has only missed one of the last five World Cups, and at this World Cup is the only nation to have a head coach from a country that hasn’t qualified

 

This country beat England in its only World Cup penalty shootout to date

 

This country's 2022 World Cup squad includes three Brighton & Hove Albion players

 

This country has reached the World Cup final more times than any other

 

In the 2002 World Cup this country scored and conceded golden goals in the knockout stage

 

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This country has been to more World Cups than England, France or Spain but has been eliminated in the round of 16 in each of the last seven tournaments

 

This country's squad includes French-born Aissa Laidouni who is the only Hungarian based player at this World Cup

 

Along with Yugoslavia, this country were losing semi-finalists in the very first World Cup in 1930

 

When this country became European champions it had only been to one World Cup

 

This country are the current champions of the Asian confederation

 

This country has reached the World Cup final three times but has never won

 

In the 2018 World Cup this country let a 2-0 lead slip in their round of 16 defeat to Belgium

 

This country is the last to reach a World Cup final as a host nation

 

This country's head coach was previously the head coach of their women’s team

 

This country beat England twice in the 2018 World Cup

 

The earliest stage this country has exited a World Cup is the quarter finals

 

He managed Morocco at the 2018 World Cup but Herve Renard is now this country's head coach

 

Knocked out by the hosts on penalties in 2018 World Cup, this country was given the fair play award at the tournament

 

This country has been in more World Cup penalty shootouts than anyone else - the only one it has lost was in 2006

 

This country has qualified more times than any other from their continent and were the first African side to reach a World Cup quarter final

 

This country has appeared in each of the last ten tournaments and are the only Asian team to have reached a World Cup semi-final

 

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