Fulham F.C. Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fulham St Andrew's

Fulham F.C. began life in 1879 as Fulham St Andrew's Cricket & Football Club, by worshippers at St Andrew's Church in Star Road. The club changed their name to Fulham Football Club in 1888, and turned professional in 1898, making them the oldest professional club in London.

Answer: Craven Cottage

Fulham F.C. had a number of temporary home grounds before moving into Craven Cottage in 1896. A record crowd of 49,335 packed into the stadium in 1938 for a London derby against Millwall. The stadium sits right on the banks of the Thames, and the opening of the brand new Riverside Stand in 2025 gave the stadium a modern all-seater capacity of 27,782.

Answer: Southern League

Fulham joined the Southern League in 1898, and were champions in both 1906 and 1907, finishing ahead of the likes of Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and Southampton. Those achievements saw elected to the second division of the Football League for season 1907-08, where they finished a very respectable fourth out of the 20 clubs.

Answer: White

After wearing a variety of colours in their formative years, Fulham adopted white shirts and black shorts as their first-choice colours for season 1903-04, and they have worn them ever since. A red trim has been added in occasional seasons.

Answer: Johnny Haynes

Johnny Haynes made his Fulham debut in 1952 and would go on to play in 657 games for the club, scoring 157 goals. He would also score 18 goals in 56 international appearances for England. The maximum weekly wage in English football was £20 before this rule was abolished in 1961, and Haynes immediately earned five times this amount.

Answer: The Cottagers

Fulham's original nickname was the Saints, alluding to their original name of St Andrew's, but once they moved into Craven Cottage the Cottagers moniker was adopted. The club's match-day mascot is Billy the Badger, due to the club's colours.

Answer: George Best

Northern Irishman George Best made his name with Manchester United in the 1960's, but by the 1970's his playboy lifestyle had begun to affect his career. After leaving United in 1974, he made aborted comebacks with a number of clubs, including Fulham in 1976-77.

He made 32 league appearances for the club scoring 6 times, but results on the pitch weren't great, and he departed at the end of the season.

Answer: West Ham United

Fulham were playing in the second tier of English footbal in season 1974-75 but went on amazing run in the F.A Cup. They defeated Hull City, Nottingham Forest, Everton and Carlisle United before coming up against Birmingham City in the semi-finals. A 1-1 draw at Hillsborough, Sheffield, meant a replay at Maine Road, Manchester, which Fulham won 1-0. On 3rd May, 1975, they faced West Ham at Wembley in an all-London final, and it was Alan Taylor who scored both goals in a 2-0 win for the Hammers.

Answer: Atletico Madrid

A seventh-place finish in the 2008-09 Premier League was enough to secure a place in the Europa League of 2009-10 for Fulham. They had to survive two qualifying rounds to reach the competition-proper, and they did so, edging past FK Vetra of Lithuania and Russia's Amkar Perm.

In the group stage they finished second behind Italian giants Roma but ahead of FC Basel of Switzerland and Bulgarians CSKA Sofia. The knockout rounds saw Fulham eliminate Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine, Juventus of Italy and two German clubs, Wolfsburg and Hamburg.

The final, in Hamburg, went to extra-time before Atletico Madrid prevailed 2-1, Simon Davies being Fulham's goalscorer.

Answer: Terry Venables

Bobby Robson was a former Fulham Player who had a short spell as manager in 1968; Kevin Keegan was in charge between 1997 and 1999 before taking the England job; and Roy Hodgson had a successful period in charge between 2007 and 2010 before leaving to take over at Liverpool.

Terry Venables was manager of three London teams - Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers and Tottenham Hotspur - but was never manager of Fulham.