GUARDIOLA VS ANCELOTTI
Guardiola vs Ancelotti: greatest coach rivalry
The return match of the Champions League play-off round Real Madrid vs Manchester City (3-1) was the 14th in duel between two most successful club coaches of modern era, Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti.
The history of their rivalry is detailed in the table. At the moment, Guardiola has an advantage in victories, 6 against 5 (with 3 draws).
However, Ancelotti has won 4 of 5 Champions League ties against Guardiola (2014, 2022, 2024, 2025) what is obviously more significant thing.
By the way, it is first time overall that a coach has won 4 ties against the same rival in the history of the European Cup/Champions League.
Besides, Ancelotti and Guardiola set together couple of records more. They are first coaches to face each other on 10 occasions in the Champions League; 8 of which have come while in charge of their current clubs.
They surpassed two pairs who faced each other in 9 games: Alex Ferguson vs Ottmar Hitzfeld and Carlo Ancelotti vs Jürgen Klopp.
Ancelotti and Guardiola are now also the coaches who faced each other in the most European Cup/Champions League knockout stage ties (5), having surpassed Ancelotti vs Ferguson (4).
| GUARDIOLA | AGAINST | ANCELOTTI | |||
| Guardiola | Ancelotti | Season | Comp. | Game 1 | Game 2 |
| Bayern | Real Madrid | 2013-14 | CL | 0-1 | 0-4 |
| Manchester City | Everton | 2019-20 | NL | 2-1 | |
| Manchester City | Everton | 2020-21 | NL | 3-1 | 5-0 |
| Manchester City | Everton | 2020-21 | NC | 2-0 | |
| Manchester City | Real Madrid | 2021-22 | CL | 4-3 | 1-3 |
| Manchester City | Real Madrid | 2022-23 | CL | 1-1 | 4-0 |
| Manchester City | Real Madrid | 2023-24 | CL | 3-3 | 1-1 |
| Manchester City | Real Madrid | 2024-25 | CL | 2-3 | 1-3 |