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Football · Level 4: Intermediate · Sub-level 4.48

Bundesliga & Serie A

10 tests · 100 facts · updated 12 October 2026 · markdown

German Bundesliga (founded 1963, Bayern 34 titles, Leverkusen's 2023-24 breakthrough) and Italian Serie A (Juventus 36 titles, Napoli 2024-25 win). Coverage of iconic clubs, players (Müller, Maldini, Kaka, Kane), coaches (Sacchi, Capello, Klopp, Conte), and modern era.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Bundesliga historyTake a test

  1. The founding vote was taken in July 1962 and the first matches were played in August 1963. Before that German football was decided between regional leagues.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  2. The Bundesliga has 18 teams — 306 matches per season (compared to 380 for 20-team leagues).

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  3. 1. FC Köln won the inaugural Bundesliga in 1963-64. They also won 1978. Bayern Munich only entered top flight from 1965.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  4. Bayern Munich entered the Bundesliga in the 1965-66 season. They quickly became dominant, winning first Bundesliga in 1969.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  5. Bayern are far ahead. Dortmund and Monchengladbach have five Bundesliga titles each, Werder Bremen four.

    Source: Bundesliga records · recall

  6. 1995, 1996, 2002, 2011 and 2012. Dortmund hold eight German championships in all, but three of those came before the Bundesliga existed.

    Source: Bundesliga records · recall

  7. Frauen-Bundesliga (Women's German Bundesliga) was founded in 1990. Bayern Munich, Wolfsburg, and Turbine Potsdam have dominated.

    Source: Frauen-Bundesliga history · recall

  8. Six, in 2013, 2014 and four in a row from 2017 to 2020.

    Source: Frauen-Bundesliga history · recall

  9. Their third in a row and seventh in all, in a league Wolfsburg and Turbine Potsdam had dominated before them.

    Source: Frauen-Bundesliga history · recall

  10. The Bundesliga, the 2. Bundesliga and the 3. Liga. Below them the Regionalliga and Oberliga are regional and semi-professional.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

Test 2Bundesliga champions and dominanceTake a test

  1. Their thirty-third Bundesliga and thirty-fourth German title, in Vincent Kompany's first season.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  2. Bayer Leverkusen won 2023-24 Bundesliga — their first ever Bundesliga title — under Xabi Alonso. Went unbeaten in Bundesliga.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  3. From 2012-13 to 2022-23, the longest title run in any of Europe's top five leagues, ended by Bayer Leverkusen.

    Source: Bundesliga records · recall

  4. Kane won the 2024-25 Bundesliga scoring title with 26 goals in his second season at Bayern.

    Source: Bundesliga awards · recall

  5. Gerd Muller scored 365 Bundesliga goals, still the career record. Lewandowski took only his single-season record, in 2020-21.

    Source: Bundesliga records · recall

  6. A record he shares with Robert Lewandowski, who matched it between 2014 and 2021.

    Source: Bundesliga records · recall

  7. Lewandowski broke Muller's 49-year-old record with 41 goals in 2020-21, the last of them in the 90th minute of the final day.

    Source: Bundesliga records · recall

  8. Bayern were a goal down at home when he came on at half-time, and they won 5-1.

    Source: Bundesliga records · recall

  9. The Finland captain, who had been at the club since 2018 and lifted its first ever Bundesliga trophy.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  10. The carmaker owns the club outright, one of the long-standing exceptions to the 50+1 rule, as Bayer is at Leverkusen.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

Test 3Serie A historyTake a test

  1. Serie A's current round-robin format began in 1929-30. Football in Italy dates back to 1898 (Italian Championship start).

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  2. Thirty-six, not counting the two revoked after Calciopoli. Inter have twenty-one and Milan nineteen.

    Source: Serie A records · recall

  3. AC Milan: 19 Serie A titles. Recent: 2010-11 and 2021-22.

    Source: Serie A records · recall

  4. The twenty-first came in 2025-26, clinched in May eleven points clear of Napoli.

    Source: Serie A records · recall

  5. Napoli: 4 Serie A titles (1986-87, 1989-90, 2022-23, 2024-25). First 2 in the Maradona era.

    Source: Serie A records · recall

  6. From 1990, Maradona's second, to 2023 under Luciano Spalletti. They then won a fourth two years after that.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  7. Napoli won the 2024-25 Serie A under Antonio Conte — their 4th ever, 2nd in 3 years.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  8. Their twentieth Scudetto, under Simone Inzaghi, sealed in the Milan derby.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  9. Antonio Conte (former Juventus, Chelsea, Inter coach) won 2024-25 Serie A with Napoli. His 3rd different Serie A club.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  10. Juventus won it five times in a row from 2018 to 2022, then Roma took the next two.

    Source: Serie A Femminile history · recall

Test 4Serie A champions detailTake a test

  1. The 2004-05 and 2005-06 championships were revoked and the club was sent down. Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio were docked points but stayed up.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  2. Juventus won 9 straight Serie A titles (2011-12 to 2019-20) — a Serie A record. Inter broke the streak in 2020-21.

    Source: Serie A records · recall

  3. Conte started the run with the first three titles, from 2011-12 to 2013-14; Allegri added the next five, and Sarri won the ninth in 2019-20.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  4. Napoli signed him permanently from Chelsea in August 2024 to replace Osimhen, reuniting him with Antonio Conte.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  5. José Mourinho led Inter to the 2009-10 treble (Serie A + Coppa Italia + CL) — the only Italian club treble.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  6. He left for PSG in January and Napoli still finished first, which is part of why the title is remembered as a collective one.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  7. Inter in 2021, Milan in 2022, Napoli in 2023, Inter again in 2024 and Napoli in 2025, before Inter took 2026.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  8. Inzaghi's Inter won the 2023-24 Scudetto, the twentieth league title in the club's history. The same side went on to reach the 2025 Champions League final, where they lost 5-0 to PSG.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  9. Twenty-five goals for Atalanta, the first Italian to top the Serie A charts since Ciro Immobile.

    Source: Serie A awards · recall

  10. Inter alone. Juventus were sent to Serie B for 2006-07 over Calciopoli, Milan have been relegated twice, and Roma went down once, in 1951.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

Test 5Iconic playersTake a test

  1. Baresi wore the armband from 1982 until he retired in 1997, when Maldini took it. Milan retired the number 6 for him.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  2. A Milan record across twenty-five seasons, and second in Serie A history behind Gianluigi Buffon's 657.

    Source: Serie A records · recall

  3. Del Piero played for Juventus 1993-2012 and captained the club from 2001 to 2012 — the all-time top scorer with 290 goals. Won 6 Serie A titles.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  4. He was beaten three times in six minutes in Istanbul, then was on the winning side against the same opponent in Athens two years later, a 2-1 win in which Kuyt scored late for Liverpool.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  5. Diego Maradona led the club to its first Serie A titles, in 1987 and 1990.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  6. Diego Milito followed them and scored both goals in the 2010 Champions League final.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  7. Grosso scored the winning penalty for Italy vs France in the 2006 WC final. Materazzi's equalizer preceded Zidane's headbutt.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  8. Thomas Muller had been at Bayern since joining the youth side in 2000, and played more matches for the club than anyone.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  9. Manuel Neuer joined Bayern in 2011. Multiple Bundesligas, CL 2013 & 2020, plus 2014 WC with Germany. Iconic sweeper-keeper.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  10. Florian Wirtz cost an initial 100 million pounds, a British record at the time.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

Test 6CoachesTake a test

  1. 1989 and 1990, back to back, with a side that pressed higher than anything Serie A had seen.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  2. Milan beat Barcelona 4-0 in Athens. Sacchi had won the third and fourth, Ancelotti would take the sixth and seventh.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  3. Ancelotti managed Milan 2001-09, winning 2 CLs (2003, 2007) and a Serie A. His iconic Milan era.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  4. Mourinho's Inter completed the treble of Serie A, Coppa Italia and Champions League in 2009-10, and he left for Real Madrid that summer.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  5. Luciano Spalletti managed Napoli 2021-23, winning their 3rd Serie A title in 2022-23 (33-year drought since Maradona era).

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  6. Alonso took over in October 2022 with Leverkusen second from bottom and won the title eighteen months later without losing a league match.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  7. Vincent Kompany (former Man City captain) took over Bayern in summer 2024. Won Bundesliga in his first season. Belgian.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  8. Stefano Pioli managed AC Milan 2019-24, winning the 2021-22 Serie A after 11-year drought.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  9. Simone Inzaghi managed Inter to 2023-24 Serie A + 2 CL finals (2023, 2025 both lost). Left after 2024-25 CL loss.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  10. From 2014 to 2019, after Conte had won the first three of the nine. He returned for a second spell from 2021.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

Test 7Iconic matchesTake a test

  1. Atalanta won 3-0 in Dublin, Ademola Lookman scoring all three, ending a run of fifty-one matches without defeat.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  2. Named after the gilded statue of the Virgin Mary on top of Milan's cathedral. Both clubs play their home matches at San Siro.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  3. Inter against Juventus, the two most decorated clubs in Italy.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  4. Derby della Capitale — AS Roma vs SS Lazio. Both from Rome, share Stadio Olimpico. Historic rivalry.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  5. Juventus against Torino, named after the Mole Antonelliana, the landmark tower of Turin.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  6. Der Klassiker, a name borrowed from Spain and applied only once Dortmund could challenge Bayern regularly.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  7. Revierderby (Ruhr Derby) — Dortmund vs Schalke, both from Ruhr industrial area. Deep-rooted working-class rivalry.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  8. Arjen Robben scored in the eighty-ninth minute at Wembley, in the first all-German European Cup final.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  9. Juventus won every title from 2011-12 to 2019-20. Antonio Conte's Inter finished twelve points clear of Milan to break it.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  10. Arjen Robben scored the 89th-minute winner (2-1) for Bayern vs Dortmund in the 2013 Wembley CL final.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

Test 8Individual awardsTake a test

  1. Torschützenkönig ('goal-scorer king') is the Bundesliga's Golden Boot for top scorer. Given since 1963.

    Source: Bundesliga awards · recall

  2. Gerd Müller won 7 Torschützenkönig awards — a record. Also 2 European Golden Boots.

    Source: Bundesliga awards · recall

  3. Lewandowski won 7 Torschützenkönig awards (2013-14 to 2020-21) — matching Müller's record.

    Source: Bundesliga awards · recall

  4. Five times for Milan in the 1950s. Ronaldo took it once, in 2020-21 with twenty-nine goals for Juventus.

    Source: Serie A awards · recall

  5. Victor Osimhen won the 2022-23 Capocannoniere with 26 goals for Napoli's Serie A title.

    Source: Serie A awards · recall

  6. 1987 and 1990, the only two the club had until they won again in 2023.

    Source: Serie A awards · recall

  7. Thirty-six Bundesliga goals in his first season at Bayern.

    Source: Bundesliga awards · recall

  8. Florian Wirtz was Bundesliga Player of Season 2023-24 for Leverkusen's unbeaten title. German midfield genius.

    Source: Bundesliga awards · recall

  9. Buffon played Serie A from 1995, with Parma until 2001 and then Juventus until 2018, followed by a season at PSG and a return to Juventus in 2019-21. 176 Italy caps. 2006 WC winner.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  10. Fourteen for RB Leipzig in 2024-25, the most in the division that season.

    Source: Bundesliga awards · recall

Test 9Recent seasonsTake a test

  1. Leverkusen clinched their first Bundesliga in April 2024, 5 games early. Ended Bayern's 11-year streak.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  2. Twenty-six goals in his second season in Germany, and his first winners' medal in senior football.

    Source: Bundesliga records · recall

  3. Napoli beat Cagliari 2-0 on the final Serie A day (23 May 2025) at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona to secure their 4th title. Final round.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  4. Napoli went into the final day a point clear, both sides won, and the gap stayed at one.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  5. Kompany arrived from Burnley in 2024 and won the title in his first season, a year after Leverkusen's unbeaten championship.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  6. Kiel went straight back down after a first season in the top flight, and Bochum's long stay ended with them.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  7. Vincent Kompany's first season in charge, with Harry Kane top scorer on twenty-six.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

  8. McTominay opened the scoring in the forty-second minute and Lukaku added the second just after the hour, at the ground renamed for Maradona.

    Source: Serie A history · recall

  9. A run of thirteen straight wins carried them to a third consecutive title, in a league Wolfsburg had dominated before.

    Source: Frauen-Bundesliga records · recall

  10. Real Madrid and Liverpool both approached him during the summer and he chose to stay for one more season.

    Source: Bundesliga history · recall

Test 10Ownership, cups and how the leagues are runTake a test

  1. The club's own members keep control, so an outside investor can fund a Bundesliga club but cannot take voting control of it.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  2. Both were founded as works teams, Leverkusen by Bayer and Wolfsburg by Volkswagen, and a clause exempts a company that has backed a club for twenty years.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  3. Members who vote also buy tickets, and standing terraces survive in Germany where England replaced them with seats.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  4. A single-match knockout from the first round, with lower-division clubs drawn at home, which is why it produces regular upsets against Bayern.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  5. Its winner takes a Europa League place, and the final has been played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome since 2008.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  6. A green, white and red shield. A gold star is different again: Italian clubs wear one for every ten league titles.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  7. Juventus wear three stars, Inter two and Milan one. The convention began with Juventus in 1958.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  8. A Bundesliga season is 306 matches against Serie A's 380, which leaves German clubs a longer winter break.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  9. The top two are promoted and the third-placed club meets the Bundesliga's sixteenth over two legs, a tie that has saved and sunk several big names.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

  10. Juventus were sent down and stripped of two titles; Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio were docked points but stayed in Serie A.

    Source: Football history and competition records · recall

Sources

FIFA / UEFA / CONMEBOL / CAF / national FA official records

  • Serie A history36
  • Bundesliga history24
  • Football history and competition records10
  • Bundesliga records8
  • Bundesliga awards7
  • Serie A records6
  • Serie A awards4
  • Frauen-Bundesliga history3
  • Serie A Femminile history1
  • Frauen-Bundesliga records1