Guardiola Hits 250 Premier League Wins

As a manager in English football, if you join a club that features David Moyes, Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson, you can be sure you are doing pretty well. Moyes has won nothing like the silverware of the other two Premier League legends. However, he has enjoyed incredible longevity in the English top flight and like Wenger and Fergie, that has helped him amass 250 Premier League wins. Additionally, Moyes has been crowned the League Managers Association Manager of the Year three times.

Pep Guardiola is the latest member of the 250 club, and he has landed the LMA award thrice as well (for the record, Fergie has five and Wenger two). But Guardiola has reached that 250-win landmark far quicker than any of the other three. The difference between Moyes and the other three is starkly illustrated by the fact that it took the two-time Everton boss 625 games to reach 250 wins. That was spread over several different clubs, too.

Wenger is the next slowest, the Arsenal legend requiring 423 games in the Premier League to deliver 250 wins. Sir Alex Ferguson got there in 404 matches, though his rebuild of Man United had begun in the pre-Premier League era of the late 1980s and early 1990s. But Pep has well and truly obliterated those marks, incredibly racing to 250 Premier League victories from his first 349 games in the division.

🚨 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Pep Guardiola has now won 250 matches in the Premier League with Manchester City. 🎉

It’s taken him just 349 matches to achieve this feat. 🙌 pic.twitter.com/Bf38VWfugK

— Football Tweet ⚽ (@Football__Tweet) October 5, 2025

Fastest to 250 Premier League Wins

Peerless Pep

Pep Guardiola was generally considered to be the best manager in the world when Man City appointed him. The Catalan former Barcelona midfielder had won three La Liga titles and two Champions Leagues as manager of Barca, and had added three Bundesliga crowns with Bayern Munich when City approached him.

He joined City in February 2016, meaning his 250 wins have come in less than a decade at the Etihad. The Cityzens had won the Premier League in 2013/14 under Manuel Pellegrini but then finished second and fourth, before ending the 2016/17 campaign in third, with Pep in charge for the end of that season.

In 2017/18, Pep showed what he could bring to the Premier League, as his side’s precision passing, possession-dominant, positional play saw them amass 100 points, winning 32 of their 38 games. The following season brought another 32 league wins, 98 points, and four domestic pieces of silverware (Premier League, EFL Cup, FA Cup and Community Shield).

In a disrupted 2019/20 campaign, they “only” won 26 matches and their 81-point haul left them well short of Liverpool. However, they bounced back in style, Guardiola leading his troops to four consecutive Premier League titles. Over that four-year period, they won an average of 28 games a season, twice surpassing 90 points.

The football was dazzling at times and in 2022/23, they matched the feat of their city rivals, United, by landing the league, FA Cup and Champions League treble. The 2024/25 season saw an unexpected drop off in performances and City slumped to third. They won just 21 of their 38 Premier League matches, fewer than they had won at any point during Pep’s tenure, even the first season when he took over in February.

City have been very active in the transfer market during the summer window of 2025/26 and the winter window before that. Pep has brought in new players and has altered City’s style somewhat. He is seeking to adapt to modern football tactics that value chaos a little more than his strict positional style. It will be interesting to see how that plays out and whether Guardiola can once again lead City to the highest of heights.

Pep’s Numbers

Following City’s win over Brentford on 5th October 2025, Pep has 250 Premier League wins from 349 games. Overall, he has won just over 70% of the City games he has been in charge of. That equates to 382 wins in all competitions from 543 matches.

However, he has some way to go before he overtakes Fergie in terms of total wins. The Scottish legend won 528 games in the Premier League with United, losing just 114 times and drawing 168. Wenger boasts 475 wins from a total of 825 games (15 more than Ferguson), with Moyes well back in third on 280 victories. And then we have Pep.

It should only be a matter of time before he overtakes one Scot in terms of Premier League wins. But surpassing the other Scot, or even the Frenchman, seems unlikely. One thing is for sure, though, City fans should certainly enjoy Guardiola while they can.