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The Catalan, who has changed the face of football in England, just as he did in Spain and Germany before his sojourn to Manchester, is sure to receive the biggest of send-offs from the Etihad Stadium faithful, who can look back on the past 10 years with absolute joy.
Only 89 games lost in 10 years
To date, Guardiola has managed 592 games in all competitions for the club, and has won an astonishing 416 of them. 87 more have been drawn, and only 89 lost, for a staggering win percentage across his decade in charge of 70.3%.
His City teams have scored 1,422 goals in that time, and conceded just 520.
In the Premier League alone, often lauded as the best league in the world, Pep's teams have earned 269 victories from 379 games played, with 58 drawn and 52 lost. The 903 goals scored are not far off three per game for the entire 10-year period he's been in charge.
A 71% win percentage in the English top-flight is only bettered by his 74.4% in the EFL Cup (29 wins from 39 games), and an 85.2% showing in the FA Cup (46 wins in 54 games).
Only Sir Alex has won more in England
Only Sir Alex Ferguson's 13 Premier League titles surpass Guardiola's six, though the latter has one thing over the former, in that the four titles in a row that were won between 2020/21 and 2023/24 are something that Sir Alex never achieved.
The Scot (26 titles overall) is also the only manager to have surpassed Pep's 16 titles in all competitions.
During his time at City, aside from the six league titles, the North West giants have won the EFL Cup five times (one ahead of Sir Alex, Jose Mourinho and Brian Clough), the FA Cup three times, the Champions League once and the Club World Cup once.
Another amazing stat that has emerged is that 2024/25 and 2025/26 mark the only time since Guardiola began coaching at Barcelona in 2008/09 that he has finished without a league title in consecutive seasons.
Most league titles in Europe's top five leagues since 2008/09
Despite this, he has still won more league titles (12) across Europe's top five football leagues than anyone else during the same time frame, with Antonio Conte and Max Allegri his closest pursuers on just six each.
Indeed, taking league games only into account, his 467 matches won from 2008/09 onwards are over 100 more than any other manager in Europe's top five leagues.
In the 10 seasons at City, he's never finished below third (twice), having finished second twice and winning the title on those other six occasions.
Since that 08/09 campaign with Barcelona, he's also not finished below third, having won three titles and finished runners-up with the Catalans, before winning three Bundesliga championships with Bayern Munich, and then heading to the blue half of Manchester for his subsequent dynastic reign.
The only EPL team to reach 100 points in a season
His 2.28 points-per-game is the highest of any manager to take charge of 20+ games in Premier League history, and Pep's City side is the only squad to get to 100 points in a single season (2017/18).
In 2018/19, they almost repeated the feat, getting to 98 points, and with 64 wins in those 76 league matches across the two seasons, City recorded an incredible 84% win percentage.
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 Liverpool 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 matches won by five or more goals, Guardiola equalled Sir Alex's record of 29, though only City have done so on seven separate occasions in the same Premier League season (19/20).
On only four occasions in all competitions has Pep's City side lost by 3+ goals. Those defeats came in October 2016 (4-0 v Barcelona), January 2017 (4-0 v Everton), November 2024 (4-0 to Tottenham), and in February 2025 (5-1 to Arsenal).
Four wins by eight or more goals
His biggest win was the 10-1 victory over Exeter in the FA Cup, whilst the five goals scored in the first 18 minutes against Watford in an eventual 8-0 romp was a Premier League record. City also fired eight past Salford City in the FA Cup, and nine past Burton Albion in the EFL Cup.
Only seven teams out of the 126 that Guardiola has faced in his time in England has he failed to beat. They are Celtic, Lyon, Al Hilal, Middlesbrough, Bodo/Glimt, Bayer Leverkusen and Wigan Athletic.
Against Burnley, however, he oversaw a monstrous 19 wins out of the 20 fixtures played, whilst City won all 15 games played vs Fulham during Pep's reign.
Only Fabian Hurzeler (W2 D2), Ronald Koeman (W1 D2), Bruno Genesio (W1 D1) and Alvaro Arbeloa (W2) were the managers to face him on more than one occasion and not lose, and of the 159 different managers he faced across his 10 seasons at City, Guardiola beat 142 of them at least once.
He came, he saw, he conquered...
Sean Dyche, Marco Silva, David Moyes, Scott Parker, and Dean Smith are the only managers never to have won a single match against him, despite a collective 60 matches coached between them.
Though not winning the Premier League in his final campaign will largely be viewed as a disappointment, in 2025/26 Guardiola’s City did become the first side ever to win all of their matches in both the FA Cup and EFL Cup in a single season, which might come as some consolation.
Perhaps the biggest legacy of all that Pep will leave, however, is the 'before and after.'
He came, he saw, and he most definitely conquered.
