Guardiola's incredible Premier League record after nine seasons
After nine seasons, City remain the Premier League's leading side since the arrival of Pep Guardiola.
Our third-place finish in 2024/25 marked just our third campaign without winning the title since the Catalan arrived, with the Blues six-time champions over that period.
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Guardiola has led us to a whopping 787 points in that time, which is 46 better than nearest challengers Liverpool on 741.
Arsenal and Chelsea are the only other sides with more than 600 points, collecting 641 and 618 respectively to this point.
Manchester United, Spurs, Everton, West Ham and Crystal Palace are the only other ever-present clubs in that time.
With 342 matches played in the Premier League since the summer of 2016, we're averaging 2.3 points per game.
Across nine seasons, our total points now averages out at 87.4.
Win percentage
That's come from an incredible 246 wins, which equates to victory in 72% of our outings in the league.
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We've won 25 more matches than second-best Liverpool across the nine seasons and over 50 more than Arsenal and Chelsea.
We've also drawn the fewest games of all the ever-present sides, tying just 49 times.
Our 47 defeats is only more than Liverpool, who have lost 43 matches.
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Goal difference
In order to achieve all of that success, we've had to excel at both ends of the pitch.
Our 827 Premier League goals under Guardiola is 82 more than Liverpool and almost 200 better than Arsenal.
Defensively, we've let in just 293 goals – 29 fewer than Liverpool and almost 100 clear of Arsenal and Chelsea.
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Those figures combine for a jaw-dropping positive goal difference of 534 – 121 better than Liverpool and almost twice Arsenal's figure of 257.
Title wins
With six titles to his name, only Alex Ferguson has won the English top-flight more than our boss.
He's tied with Aston Villa's George Ramsey, who won the league six times between 1894 and 1910, and Bob Paisley at Liverpool between 1976 and 1983.
And as we know, our four titles in a row between 2020/21 and 2023/24 is an all-time English football record for the longest streak of top-flight titles.
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Only Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and David Moyes have won more matches in the Premier League era than Guardiola, but our man's win percentage is significantly better than any of that trio.
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Guardiola's first title in 2017/18 came with a Premier League points record as we racked up a century, an amazing 19 points better than second placed Manchester United.
We followed that success up in 2018/19 by edging out Liverpool to the title, claiming 98 points.
We were again far ahead of the competition in 2020/21, finishing 12 points ahead of Manchester United before another tense battle with Liverpool ended in a second title decided by just one point.
Our 2022/23 season saw us collect 89 points – five more than Arsenal in second before we surpassed 90 again with 91 in 2023/24.
90 points record
We have accumulated at least 90 points in four seasons under Guardiola.
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That is more than any other side in the Premier League has managed in the league's entire history, with Liverpool and Chelsea both hitting that mark three times. Manchester United have done it twice and Arsenal once.
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Clean sheets
We've kept 146 clean sheets so far, with Liverpool the next best on 135.
Our tally averages at a shut out every 2.3 matches.
122 of those are credited to Ederson, with Stefan Ortega on six from 25 games.
Most goals
Erling Haaland and Raheem Sterling are now tied as our leading Premier League scorers under Pep, each netting 85 times.
The Norwegian has reached that mark in just 97 appearances, after another 22 goals in 2024/25.
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His third term did mark his first without winning the Golden Boot though, after claiming that accolade in 2022/23 and 2023/24.
Most assists
No surprises when it comes to most Premier League assists under Guardiola, with 109 of De Bruyne's 119 in the league coming since the Catalan arrived.
He has been, by far, the league's most productive creator over the these nine seasons with Mo Salah second on 86 assists.
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De Bruyne sits second in the all-time ranking for the Premier League – just 43 behind Ryan Giggs in 344 fewer appearances.
Appearances
Ederson is Guardiola's most selected player in the Premier League, playing 276 of the 342 games.
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Bernardo Silva and Kevin De Bruyne are next, getting through 266 and 260 games respectively.
All three are amongst the six men to have been part of all six titles under the boss along with Phil Foden, John Stones and Kyle Walker.
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