City’s outstanding FA Cup record under Guardiola | OneFootball

City return to action in the FA Cup this weekend, seeking to extend our incredible record in the competition under Pep Guardiola.

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The Catalan has led us to the trophy twice, but we’ve also reached the final on two other occasions.

Further to that, we’ve set a competition record in getting to the semi-finals in each of the last seven seasons.

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That’s come thanks to 31 successive victories in the FA Cup outside of matches at Wembley – semi-finals and finals.

That stretches all the way back to the 2017/18 campaign, which is currently the only year of Pep’s nine at the Etihad Stadium in which he hasn’t led us to the final four of the world’s oldest cup competition.

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We have won each of our last 17 home matches in the FA Cup and victory here would make this the outright longest home winning run by any side in the competition proper, surpassing Clapham Rovers’ 17 wins from December 1873 to February 1881.

Only Arsenal can match our haul of two trophies in the nine years since Guardiola took charge, with City now on seven successes overall.

Our first came all the way back in 1904, a record 119 years before our most recent.

In total, Guardiola has taken charge of 51 FA Cup matches as City boss – winning 43 of them.

We’ve scored a whopping 153 goals in that time, at an average of exactly three per game.

City have only let in 22 goals over those 51 games, leaving us with an astonishing competition goal difference of +122 under Guardiola.

Our biggest win came against Exeter City earlier this season, beating the League One side 10-1 at home.

2018/19 was our highest scoring season in the competition, netting 26 times across six games including a 7-0 defeat of Rotherham United, 5-0 win over Burnley and 6-0 demolition of Watford in the final.

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We conceded just once en route to lifting the trophy at Wembley in 2022/23 and that came in the final itself – scoring 19 goals in total across all the rounds.

We’ve also enjoyed a strong record against many of the Premier League’s biggest clubs, beating Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and others on our way to finals and trophies.

Now with 19 major honours under his belt at City, Guardiola may not have lifted the FA Cup as much as English football’s other big prizes but he’s always shown the same excellence and will to win as he has in the Premier League and League Cup in particular.

The boss will now be hoping to improve yet again on this record with victory over Liverpool and book a return to Wembley as a neutral venue for a 23rd time as City manager this spring.