How Guardiola's first 500 games in English football compares to other modern greats | OneFootball

Pep Guardiola has set an incredible pace of success in his first 500 matches in English football.

The Catalan hit the milestone in Sunday’s 2-0 victory over Leicester City after eight and a half years in charge at the Etihad Stadium.

The journey to 500 games has included 234 wins in 323 Premier League games, 60 victories in 90 Champions League outings and 35 successes in FA Cup matches.

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When compared with the other modern great managers in English football, Guardiola far outshines even the most celebrated names.

His 355 wins is 51 more than Jose Mourinho earned in his first 500 matches in England, 66 more than Arsene Wenger and 91 beyond Sir Alex Ferguson.

Jurgen Klopp, who took charge of 491 Liverpool matches across all competitions, won 299 of them – putting him 56 behind our man.

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Guardiola’s win percentage of 71% is more than 10% better than any of those four names with Klopp the next best on 60.9%.

With 1,213 goals so far under Pep, we are averaging 2.43 per game. Again, that is significantly ahead of all his counterparts.

Klopp’s Liverpool scored 1035 goals at 2.11 per game, while Wenger (912), Mourinho (875) and Ferguson (806) all went at less than two goals per game in their first 500 matches in England.

Having conceded 429 times, our goal difference under Pep is +784.

That is 252 better than Klopp, who left Liverpool with a goal difference of +532, more than 300 ahead of Mourinho (+469) and Wenger (+445) and over 400 better than Ferguson’s first 500 games (+344).

In total, Guardiola has won 18 major honours as Manchester City boss – making him by far the most decorated manager in our history.

It is also several more trophies than his great counterparts had lifted after their first 500 games in England.

Mourinho and Wenger had both claimed 11 major honours, while Ferguson had 10 when he hit 500 games and Klopp left Liverpool with eight pieces of silverware.

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Guardiola has overseen an era of unprecedented dominance of the English top-flight, with City becoming the first side ever to win our nation’s highest tier four years in a row.

In total, he has six Premier League titles including the highest points total recorded when we collected 100 from a possible 114 in 2017/18.

That makes him the joint-second most successful manager ever when it comes to English top-flight titles.

Since taking the manager's job at Barcelona in 2008 he has won double the amount of top five European league titles any other manager has.

Our current boss is only the second man ever to take charge of 500 City matches after Les McDowall, who led the first team 592 times between 1950 and 1963.

He is now the Premier League’s current longest serving manager having been in post just over two years more than Brentford boss Thomas Frank.