Pep Guardiola received 17 trophies in his 10-year keep at Man Metropolis, however how does his document arise in English soccer?
Revealed On 22 Might 2026
Pep Guardiola is leaving Manchester Metropolis after altering the face of English soccer during the last 10 years.
However how do his achievements at Metropolis examine with these of different nice managers to have labored in England down the years, equivalent to Alex Ferguson, Bob Paisley and Brian Clough?
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The numbers and information practically converse for themselves.
Pep and the Premier League
Guardiola at all times valued the home league larger than every other competitors and he established an period of record-breaking dominance, main Metropolis to 6 titles in his 10 seasons (60 p.c) — together with the unprecedented feat of 4 in a row (2021-24). These six titles got here in a seven-year span. He completed exterior the highest two on simply two events.
As an general share, solely Paisley (66.67 p.c) has a greater title-winning document of modern-day managers. In his 9 years at Liverpool (1974-83), he received the English league six instances and was solely exterior the highest two as soon as.
Ferguson received the league title 13 instances in 26 full seasons at United (1986-2013) however began out at a decrease base, with the membership being close to the underside of the standings and and not using a championship in 19 years when he took over. From the 12 months of Ferguson’s first league crown (1993) to when he retired, United’s title-winning share was 61.9 p.c – barely larger than Guardiola’s however decrease than Paisley’s.
Pep and the Champions League
For a membership of Metropolis’s Abu Dhabi-fuelled assets, its document within the Champions League below Guardiola has been underwhelming — and he acknowledges that.
One title (2023), yet one more closing (shedding to Chelsea in 2021) and only one different semifinal look (2022) is a disappointing return for a crew extensively considered the most effective in Europe for many of his reign. Guardiola can, after all, level to 2 extra Champions League titles in his four-year stint at Barcelona.
Ferguson received the Champions League twice with United, although even that was additionally considered a below-par return contemplating the crew’s home dominance.
Of British managers, Clough and Paisley maintain essentially the most enviable information. Clough received the European Cup with Nottingham Forest in back-to-back years (1979 and 1980) — a outstanding feat at a provincial membership — whereas Paisley received the competitors thrice (1977, 1978 and 1981) in 5 years.
Pep’s whole trophy path
Guardiola has received 17 main trophies in his decade at Metropolis, placing him solely behind Ferguson in English soccer’s all-time listing.
Ferguson captured 28 trophies, however had 16 years longer within the job than Guardiola.
Subsequent comes Paisley, with 14 main trophies, adopted by former Arsenal supervisor Arsene Wenger (10, of which a document seven have been FA Cups), Clough (9, throughout his spells at Derby and Forest) and former Man United supervisor Matt Busby (eight).
Pep’s factors totals
Beneath Guardiola, Metropolis racked up two of the highest three factors totals in English top-flight historical past — 100 within the 2017-18 season (Guardiola’s second in cost) and 98 within the 2018-19 season. In that seven-season span from 2018-2024, Metropolis set new requirements in constant excellence by accumulating greater than 90 factors in 4 league campaigns — helped by having a top-class rival in Liverpool pushing all of it the way in which.
That Liverpool crew below Jurgen Klopp picked up 99 factors in 2019-20, when breaking apart Metropolis’s run of titles, and 97 factors in 2018-19 when taking Metropolis to the ultimate recreation of the season.
Within the period when it was two factors for a win (earlier than 1981), Liverpool held the document for many factors in a season with 68 in 1978-79. That equates to 98 factors if there had been three factors for a win, however Liverpool performed 42 video games as an alternative of the present 38-game marketing campaign.
Additionally notable was Chelsea’s haul of 95 factors in 2004-05, the primary season of Jose Mourinho’s first spell there. That was a document on the time.
Pep’s information – and a primary
Guardiola has by no means been shy to focus on the information he has set at Metropolis – and there have been many.
The one crew within the practically 140-year historical past of English soccer to win 4 top-flight league titles in a row. The primary crew to win 100 factors in a top-flight season (2017-18). Probably the most targets – 106 – scored in a single Premier League marketing campaign (additionally 2017-18). The primary crew to win the home treble of the league, FA Cup and League Cup in the identical season (2018-19).
Guardiola additionally emulated Ferguson in each successful the Premier League-FA Cup-Champions League treble (United in 1999, Metropolis in 2023) and wrapping up a Premier League title with 5 video games nonetheless to play (United in 2001, Metropolis in 2018) — a document till it was damaged by Liverpool in 2020 (seven video games to play).
One thing Guardiola by no means managed, nevertheless, was Wenger’s best feat of going a whole league season unbeaten (with Arsenal in 2004).
