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Nicolas Anelka Quiz
Which clubs did Nicolas Anelka play for?
Nicolas Anelka turned out for 8 clubs across his senior career:
Arsenal · Real Madrid · Paris Saint-Germain · Manchester City · Fenerbahçe · Bolton Wanderers · Chelsea · West Bromwich Albion
In order, that career path reads: Arsenal → Real Madrid → Paris Saint-Germain → Manchester City → Fenerbahçe → Bolton Wanderers → Chelsea → West Bromwich Albion. Every club listed here is checked against Nicolas Anelka's own Wikipedia article before it is published, so the career path you see is the one you can verify.
Can you name him from the clubs alone?
That sequence is the basis of our most-played format: the clubs appear one by one and you name the player before the last one lands. Nicolas Anelka is one of 801 careers in the database, and with 8 clubs his path gives more away than most — the median player in our data has 5 — so this one is on the kinder side.
1 questions about Nicolas Anelka from the quiz
These are pulled from the 2,917-question bank the site plays from. Every one has been checked against Wikipedia before publication — if a source contradicts it, it never reaches you.
- Which club did striker Nicolas Anelka join when he left Arsenal for the first time in 1999?
- Real Madrid
Where Nicolas Anelka played
Those 8 clubs span 4 countries — England, Spain, France, Turkey, across Premier League, La Liga, Ligue 1, Süper Lig. A career that moved between leagues like that is the kind the career-path round is built for: the giveaway is rarely the first club, it is the unusual one in the middle.
Nicolas Anelka in the quiz
He turns up in the career-path round, the club quizzes for Arsenal and Real Madrid, and the open search — type his name and the site builds a quiz around him on the spot. French striker, and one of the France players in the database.
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Play the Nicolas Anelka Quiz →Nicolas Anelka's clubs, one by one
Arsenal — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Arsenal: Thierry Henry, Cesc Fàbregas, Mesut Özil.
Real Madrid — Spain, La Liga. Also in the quiz from Real Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham, Kaká.
Paris Saint-Germain — France, Ligue 1. Also in the quiz from Paris Saint-Germain: Lionel Messi, David Beckham, Zlatan Ibrahimović.
Manchester City — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Manchester City: Erling Haaland, Kevin De Bruyne, Frank Lampard.
Fenerbahçe — Turkey, Süper Lig. Also in the quiz from Fenerbahçe: Mesut Özil, Roberto Carlos, Dušan Tadić.
Bolton Wanderers — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Bolton Wanderers: El-Hadji Diouf, Kevin Nolan, Jay-Jay Okocha.
Chelsea — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Chelsea: Mohamed Salah, Kevin De Bruyne, Eden Hazard.
West Bromwich Albion — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from West Bromwich Albion: Salomón Rondón, Branislav Ivanović, Ben Foster.
Other France players in the quiz
Thierry Henry · Patrick Vieira · Allan Saint-Maximin · Samir Nasri · Sylvain Distin · Mikael Silvestre · Hatem Ben Arfa · William Gallas
Players who shared a club with Nicolas Anelka
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