Pre-Match Poser no.17: Can you answer this elite-level football quiz question?

Another week, another Pre-Match Poser…

Tottenham Hotspur signed 12 players in 2020… but who swapped Ajax for Spurs that year?

We'll reveal the answer this time next week in the next edition of The Pre-Match Poser – stay tuned for that – but for now, here's the answer to last week's conundrum…

Q. There have only been 40, and there were none in Arsenal’s Invincible season. Jonathan Walters is the only man to have gotten one in a season that Jose Mourinho won the Premier League title in. One American got one; another American didn’t. Yakubu has more of them than Thierry Henry. Six different Chelsea players got one each. Alan Shearer, Erling Haaland and Harry Kane didn’t get one, but Demba Ba, Gabriel Agbonlahor and Edin Dzeko all did. What are we talking about?

A. The answer is super simple… perfect hat-tricks in the Premier League.

More football quizzes we know you'll love

Too simple? Let's step things up with yet more quizzes, courtesy of Kwizly.

If your knowledge of top-flight history is as sharp as a poacher’s instincts, it's time to prove it. We’ve got a teaser that asks you to sort these players by the number of appearances they made in the Premier League, alongside a clinical look at the history of the league's most lethal finishers where we want you to name every player to score 20+ goals in a Premier League season.

Since you’ve already been tallying up the goals, let's see how well you know the stage they were scored on. We want you to scale the mountain of European football by naming every club Newcastle United have ever played in Europe, before taking a step back to naming every UEFA nation currently on the map. From the household names to the obscure outliers, it's time to see if your footballing IQ is truly world-class.

FourFourTwo’s Weekend Crossword 43, featuring clues on Brazilians, Ballon d'Or bridesmaids and Bundesliga battles, is the perfect way to spend your half-time break. To stay ahead of the curve, join our daily newsletter for your morning trivia briefing, and sign up for free to The Club: our membership portal where you can earn badges, get quiz hints, and fight for the top spot on our global leaderboards.