Pep Guardiola's Legendary Man City Era Revealed Through Stunning Statistics

Pep Guardiola has officially concluded his 10-year tenure at Manchester City as the 2025–26 Premier League season came to an end.

The Spanish tactician was unable to sign off with a seventh and final Premier League crown, conceding the title race to Arsenal just days before the season's final fixture. Nevertheless, a Carabao Cup and FA Cup double this campaign still brought his Manchester haul to 17 major trophies—20 in total.

Guardiola oversaw 593 matches as Manchester City boss and claimed victory in 423—a win rate of 71%. He drew 77 and suffered 93 defeats, the very last being Sunday's home loss to Aston Villa.

A decade prior, Pep's journey began with a 2–1 victory over Sunderland on Aug. 8, 2016. Sergio Agüero netted the first goal of his era after just four minutes, though it required a Paddy McNair own goal three minutes from time to secure that opening win.

Guardiola's 593rd and final game actually shattered a club record that had stood for over 60 years, surpassing the 592 matches managed by Les McDowall at City between 1950 and 1963.

Pep Guardiola's Man City Record by Competition

*Includes qualifying

Man City Premier League Points Under Pep Guardiola

Following a relatively modest debut Premier League campaign—finishing third in 2016–17—Guardiola quickly steered City into the record books of English football. The very next season, his side won 32 of 38 games and became the first and only team to reach the 100-point mark in a single top-flight season.

City matched that win tally (32) again in 2018–19, though a different combination of draws and defeats left them two points shy of a second century.

Guardiola's final two seasons proved to be his weakest in terms of Premier League points accumulated.

Man City Goals Scored Under Pep Guardiola

Guardiola's City netted 1,462 goals in total, with Agüero and Antoine Semenyo bookending the tally. They let in 557, with Sunderland's Jermain Defoe being the first opponent to score against them and Aston Villa's Ollie Watkins the last.

While Agüero became City's all-time leading scorer during Guardiola's tenure—breaking Eric Brook's 77-year-old record in 2017 and extending it to 260—Erling Haaland stands as the highest scorer under the manager's watch: 162 goals across four seasons.

Man City Trophies Under Pep Guardiola

Across 136 years of existence before Guardiola's arrival, Manchester City had experienced only sporadic periods of success—most notably in the 1930s and 1960s—and were not considered a traditional powerhouse of English football. That had already begun to shift following the Abu Dhabi takeover in 2008, but Guardiola accelerated the transformation dramatically from 2016 onward.

Four league titles spread between 1936–37 and 2013–14 grew by six within a single decade. City had lifted the FA Cup five times before 2016, including Roberto Mancini's 2010–11 triumph that ended a 35-year trophy drought, with Guardiola adding three more. In the Carabao Cup, the Spaniard more than doubled the club's historical total, claiming five to add to the existing four.

City had previously won a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup back in 1969–70, but European Cup glory remained elusive until Guardiola delivered a first-ever Champions League title in 2022–23. The fact that he achieved continental success only once in a decade is perhaps the greatest regret of his time in charge.

Ultimately, though, Guardiola claimed 20 trophies in 10 years, compared to 18 across the entirety of Manchester City's history before him.

*Includes pre-Premier League era