The news Manchester City supporters feared has now been confirmed: Pep Guardiola will step down as first-team head coach following the club’s final Premier League match against Aston Villa.

The Catalan manager, who has reshaped English football in the same way he previously transformed the game in Spain and Germany, is expected to receive an emotional farewell from the Etihad Stadium faithful, who have witnessed a decade of unprecedented success.

Over his tenure, Guardiola has overseen 592 matches in all competitions, winning 416 of them. He has also recorded 87 draws and just 89 defeats, giving him an impressive win rate of 70.3%.

During this period, his Manchester City side have scored 1,422 goals while conceding only 520, underlining their dominance across domestic and European football.

In the Premier League alone—widely regarded as the most competitive league in world football—Pep Guardiola’s teams have recorded 269 wins from 379 matches, alongside 58 draws and 52 defeats. During that period, his sides have scored 903 goals, averaging close to three per game over his 10-year spell in charge.

His 71% win rate in England’s top flight is only surpassed by his record in the Carabao Cup, where he boasts 74.4% (29 wins from 39 games), and his FA Cup record, which stands at an outstanding 85.2% (46 wins from 54 matches).

Only Sir Alex Ferguson has won more in England in terms of Premier League titles, with 13 compared to Guardiola’s six. However, Guardiola does hold a unique distinction, having delivered four consecutive league titles between 2020/21 and 2023/24—something Ferguson never achieved.

Ferguson, who amassed 26 major honours in total, remains the only manager to have won more titles overall in English football than Guardiola’s 16.

During his time at Manchester City, in addition to six Premier League titles, the North West club have also won the Carabao Cup five times—one more than Sir Alex Ferguson, José Mourinho and Brian Clough. They have lifted the FA Cup on three occasions, the Champions League once, and the Club World Cup once.

Another striking statistic highlights Guardiola’s consistency: the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons mark the only time since he began his managerial career at Barcelona in 2008/09 that he has gone two consecutive seasons without a league title.

Despite this, he has still won more league titles (12) across Europe’s top five leagues since 2008/09 than any other manager in that period, with Antonio Conte and Massimiliano Allegri his closest challengers on six each.

Indeed, when looking solely at league matches, Guardiola’s 467 wins since 2008/09 place him more than 100 ahead of any other manager across Europe’s top five leagues, underlining his remarkable consistency and dominance over the past decade and a half.

In his 10 seasons at Manchester City, Guardiola has never finished below third place, achieving two third-place finishes, two second-place finishes, and six Premier League titles.

Since the 2008/09 campaign at Barcelona, he has also consistently finished in the top three across all his managerial roles—winning three La Liga titles with Barcelona, three Bundesliga crowns with Bayern Munich, and then continuing his dominant spell in charge of Manchester City.

He also holds a landmark Premier League record, as his City side remain the only team to reach 100 points in a single season, achieved in 2017/18. In the following 2018/19 campaign, they came close again with 98 points.

Across those two seasons alone, City won 64 of 76 league matches, producing an extraordinary 84% win rate, while Guardiola’s overall 2.28 points-per-game remains the highest in Premier League history for any manager with 20 or more games in charge.

In the history of the Premier League, only David Moyes (753 games, 290 wins), Arsene Wenger (828 games, 476 wins) and Sir Alex (810 games, 528 wins), have more than Guardiola’s 269 victories – which came in just 379 EPL matches.

With 106 goals in 17/18, City hold the record for most scored in a single Premier League season, whilst they also hold the top three positions for biggest goal difference in an EPL campaign: +72 in 18/19, +73 in 21/22 and +79 in 17/18.

18-match winning run a Premier League record

During 17/18, City went on an epic 18-match unbeaten run, which is also another competition record, and for those top-flight teams winning 15+ games in a row, City have done so twice more, with only Jurgen Klopp’s  Liver pool also doing so (twice).

Between December 2020 and May 2021, the Cityzens won 12 away matches in a row, which can’t be topped either.

In terms of dominant scorelines, Guardiola has equalled Sir Alex Ferguson’s record of 29 wins by five goals or more, although Manchester City remain unique in achieving this feat seven times in a single Premier League season (2019/20).

Across all competitions, City under Guardiola have lost by three or more goals on just four occasions. Those defeats came against Barcelona (4-0, October 2016), Everton (4-0, January 2017), Tottenham (4-0, November 2024), and Arsenal (5-1, February 2025).

The Catalan coach has also overseen several emphatic victories, including a 10-1 win over Exeter in the FA Cup. City scored five goals in the opening 18 minutes of an 8-0 Premier League win over Watford, set an FA Cup record by hitting eight against Salford City, and scored nine past Burton Albion in the Carabao Cup.

Remarkably, only seven of the 126 teams Guardiola has faced during his time in England have avoided defeat against him: Celtic, Lyon, Al Hilal, Middlesbrough, Bodo/Glimt, Bayer Leverkusen and Wigan Athletic.

Against Burnley, Guardiola oversaw a dominant record of 19 wins from 20 meetings, while Manchester City were also perfect against Fulham during his reign, winning all 15 encounters.

Only Fabian Hürzeler (W2 D2), Ronald Koeman (W1 D2), Bruno Genesio (W1 D1), and Álvaro Arbeloa (W2) managed to face him more than once without suffering defeat. Across his 10 seasons at City, Guardiola defeated 142 of the 159 managers he came up against at least once.

A number of high-profile coaches—Sean Dyche, Marco Silva, David Moyes, Scott Parker, and Dean Smith—never recorded a win over him, despite collectively facing him 60 times.

Although failing to secure the Premier League title in his final campaign will be seen by many as a disappointment, Guardiola’s 2025/26 side did achieve a unique milestone by becoming the first team ever to win every match in both the FA Cup and the League Cup in a single season, offering a notable consolation.

Ultimately, his legacy is defined by transformation and dominance, marking a clear “before and after” era in English football. As the numbers suggest, he came, he saw, and he most certainly conquered.