Winner of 16 major trophies so far, his year-on-year stats just keep getting better and better as he breaks records and sets new standards in English football.
To celebrate his many acheivements, we’ve collated some of those incredible stats he’s clocked up since joining the Club in 2016…
RAINING GOALS
Since Pep’s reign began, nobody has scored more Premier League goals than City.
To date, the Blues have bagged 707 goals in 286 games during the Catalan’s tenure – an average of 2.47 goals… every game. Incredible.
That means our average for every two games is to score five goals and 10 every four matches.
In that same period, we’ve conceded only 238 goals – less than one per match on average and both City’s goals for and against columns are far and away the best of all Premier League clubs during that same period.
WIN percentage
It’s widely accepted that Pep Guardiola has changed the way football is played in this country.
He will modestly deny this, of course, but almost every team from the top division to League Two and beyond have been influenced by City’s style of play, starting by playing from the back with sweeper keepers, pressing from the front and attempting to play beautiful, possession-based football.
The outstanding results of Pep’s specific brand of football means his win percentage of Premier League games – 73.4% - is higher than any other manager with 10 games-plus in the history of the division.
Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson (65.2%) is more than 8% behind Pep with Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp next on 62.7% - that’s a full 10%-plus fewer wins for a manager who – like Sir Alex - is also considered one of the best to take charge on these shores.
Unsurprisingly, Pep also has the best points-per-game average of the Premier League era with 2.34.
Interestingly for the mutually respective great rivals that Guardiola and Klopp are, both have an identical total points record of 668, though the City supremo has accumulated his tally in 30 games fewer than the German.
MOST GOALS – ALL COMPETITIONS
Confirming City’s place as the great entertainers is our total goals scored under Pep’s tutelage.
His 445 games in charge have yielded no less than 1,095 goals – again an average just shy of 2.5 per game and some 215 more than Liverpool have scored in the same period and 351 more than Manchester United fans have enjoyed – and, on the subject of our cross-city rivals,
Pep’s record of five wins at Old Trafford in the Premier League is unsurpassed, with only Roy Hodgson, Arsene Wenger and Gerard Houllier coming close to that statistic with three wins apiece.
TITLES WON (to date)
Of Pep’s 16-trophy haul as City manager, he can boast one Champions League triumph, five Premier League titles – with the Blues chasing an unprecedented fourth successive Premier League championship – one FIFA Club World Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, two FA Cup wins, four Carabao Cups and two FA Community Shields. Remarkable.
Individually, he has also been voted Premier League Manager of the Season four times; the League Manager Association’s (LMA) Manager of the Year three times; the LMA Premier League Manager of the Year on three occasions; UEFA Men’s Coach of the Year for 2022-23 and The Best FIFA Coach for 2022-23. Add a place in the LMA Hall of Fame and the Globe Soccer Awards Coach of the Century (2020) and it’s not a bad haul, is it?
MANAGER OF THE MONTH
No manager has won more Premier League Manager of the Month awards than Pep since the 2017-18 season.
The boss has 11 wins under his belt, with Jurgen Klopp next on nine and former assistant manager at the Etihad Mikel Arteta currently on six.
Pep has some way to go to top sit atop the all-time Premier League monthly manager honours with Sir Alex Ferguson finishing his career with 27.
*Statistics correct as of 18 January 2023
**Rodolfo Borrell took charge of City’s FA Cup Third Round win over Swindon Town in January 2022 with Guardiola isolating after a positive COVID-19 test result.
