15 facts about the 2022/2023 Champions League final Manchester City – Inter. Guardiola’s 35th trophy, the uniqueness of Carson and Haaland

Manchester City, having won the 2022/2023 Champions League final, won the main club trophy of world football for the first time. Citizens mentor Pep Guardiola celebrated victory in the tournament for the fourth time, adding the 35th trophy to his collection. Sport Arena collected 15 facts about the 2022/2023 Champions League final Manchester City – Inter.

First Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola is the only coach in history to win the treble with two different teams. Previously, he managed to win the championship, the Cup of the country and the Champions League in the same season with Barcelona.

First in history, three clubs from the same country have lost all three European Cup finals in the same season. “Lucky” Italy: in addition to Inter, Roma lost the final of the Europa League, Fiorentina lost the Conference League.

First The player in history with a treble and a victory at the World Cup in one season was the Argentine legionnaire Manchester City Julian Alvarez. In addition, the Citizens striker became the tenth player to win the World Cup and the Champions League in the same season.

First Polish referee Szymon Marchiniak became the referee for the last 13 years, who in one season served the final matches of the Champions League and the World Cup.

Second The English player who won the Champions League with two different clubs was Manchester City’s substitute goalkeeper Scott Carson, who won the tournament with Liverpool in 2005. And the first English player to do so was Daniel Sturridge, who won against Chelsea and Liverpool.

Second The English club that completed the treble was Manchester City. Previously, only Manchester United managed to do this. Note that Manchester became the second city, two clubs from which won the Champions League. Previously, only Milan could boast of this.

In the third once in his coaching career, Pep Guardiola won the Champions League, equaling Zinedine Zidane in this indicator. The Spanish coach has won twice with Barcelona and now with Manchester City. More often than Zidane and Guardiola, only Carlo Ancelotti has won the Champions League four times.

Four out of six Champions League finals won by Pep Guardiola. As already mentioned, the Spanish specialist as a coach won the tournament twice with Barcelona, ​​once with Manchester City. Also, as a football player, Pep won a trophy with Barcelona. Lost the final of Guardiola in 1994 to Milan as a footballer and in 2021 to Chelsea as a coach.

fourth Manchester City striker Erling Haaland became the player who won the Champions League and Premier League goalscoring race in the same season. Previously, Dwight Yorke, Rude van Nistelrooy and Cristiano Ronaldo succeeded in this.

sixth The English club that won the European Cup/Champions League was Manchester City. Previously it was managed by Manchester United, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Chelsea.

sixth Pep Guardiola became the manager who won the European Cup/Champions League with two different clubs. Ernst Happel, Otmar Hitzfeld, José Mourinho, Jupp Heynkens and Carlo Ancelotti have done it before.

eighth The club in history to complete the treble is Manchester City. It has previously been done by Celtic, Ajax, PSV, Manchester United, Barcelona (twice), Inter and Bayern (twice).

11 wins in the Champions League has now become the asset of the Spanish coaches. More often, only Italian specialists won the tournament – 12 times.

32 trophies after winning the Champions League became in the collection of Manchester City. Prior to that, the Citizens won the English Championship nine times, the National Cup seven times, the League Cup eight times, the Super Bowl six times, and the Cup Winners’ Cup once.

35th trophy coaching career was won by Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola. The Spanish specialist has 14 trophies with Man City, the same number with Barcelona and seven with Bayern.