Across his time as manager of Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City, Pep Guardiola has won 10 league titles in 13 seasons.
Alongside those 10 table-topping campaigns, Guardiola’s teams have finished as a runner-up twice and ended up third once.
That leaves just four managers that can boast of finishing ahead of the Catalan coach in a league campaign. Here are the few special names who have managed it.
Jose Mourinho – Real Madrid (2011-12)
Guardiola led boyhood club Barcelona to the league title in his first three years as senior manager from 2008 to 2011; still the only side since Johan Cruyff’s Dream Team of the early 90s to top La Liga three years in a row.
Having delivered the treble at Inter, with a famous victory over Pep’s Barca in the Champions League semis, Jose Mourinho arrived at Real Madrid in 2010 with the task of knocking the Catalans off their perch.
Mourinho led Madrid to their first Clasico victory of the Guardiola era in the 2011 Copa del Rey final, but Los Blancos lost out to their eternal rivals in the league and Champions League. The cup final victory gave Mourinho’s Madrid a platform to build on, however, and in his second year in charge they won the title with a record 100-point, 121-goal haul.
Barcelona finished nine points behind, in spite of Lionel Messi registering a career-best 50 league goals. A visibly exhausted Guardiola announced his departure shortly before the end of the campaign and took a much-needed sabbatical year in New York.
The fractious rivalry with Mourinho evidently took its toll on the Catalan.
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Antonio Conte – Chelsea (2016-17)
Guardiola arrived at Manchester City in the summer of 2016, fresh from delivering the Bundesliga title in each of his three seasons in charge at Bayern Munich.
City won their first six Premier League matches of the 2016-17 campaign but come the Autumn they began to falter through…
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