How Pep Guardiola compares with Alex Ferguson and English soccer’s other managerial greats
Pep Guardiola is leaving Manchester City after changing the face of English soccer over the last 10 years. Guardiola always valued the domestic league higher than any other competition and he established an era of record-breaking dominance, leading City to six titles in his 10 seasons (60%) — including the unprecedented feat of four in a row (2021-24). As an overall percentage, only Paisley (66.
67%) has a better title-winning record of modern-day managers.
Pep Guardiola is leaving Manchester City after changing the face of English soccer over the last 10 years. But how do his achievements at City compare with those of other great managers to have worked in England down the years, such as Alex Ferguson, Bob Paisley and Brian Clough? The Associated Press dives deep into the numbers and records: The Premier League Guardiola always valued the domestic league higher than any other competition and he established an era of record-breaking dominance, leading City to six titles in his 10 seasons (60%) — including the unprecedented feat of four in a row (2021-24).
Those six titles came in a seven-year span. He finished outside the top two on just two occasions. As an overall percentage, only Paisley (66.
67%) has a better title-winning record of modern-day managers. In his nine years at Liverpool (1974-83), he won the English league six times and was only outside the top two once. Ferguson won the league title 13 times in 26 full seasons at United (1986-2013) but started out at a lower base, with the club being near the bottom of the standings and without a championship in 19 years when he took over.
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