List of Manchester City F.C. managers

However, as Wild's tenure covered the entire length of the Second World War, in which no competitive football was played, he is not the man with the most games served as manager.

Les McDowall, who was in charge from 1950 to 1963, a period of 13 years, managed the club for the most competitive games, a total of 592 matches – a full 240 more than Wild, who recorded the second most.

In the era before league football, the position of manager involved many secretarial duties, arranging fixtures and the upkeep of the club's ground.

[3] Under Sam Omerod the club achieved promotion to the First Division for the first time,[4] and five years later Tom Maley became the first Manchester City manager to win a major trophy, the 1904 FA Cup.

[5] A financial scandal resulted in the Football Association suspending Maley and seventeen players in 1906,[6] leaving Harry Newbould with the task of assembling a makeshift side at short notice.

[7] Known for his tactical awareness, McDowall's implementation of a system known as the Revie Plan resulted in two FA Cup final appearances, a defeat in 1955 and a victory in 1956.

Malcolm Allison, who had rejoined the coaching staff in January 1979, made an ill-fated return to the manager's role later that year, a spell noted more for financial excess than on-pitch success.

[16] The final of the five, Frank Clark, saw out the season but did not last much longer, losing his job in February 1998 with the club on the brink of relegation to the third tier of English football.

On 6 July 2007, Sven-Göran Eriksson became the first non-British Manchester City manager, replacing the sacked Stuart Pearce, who had served for two years following an initial spell as caretaker.

On the same day that Pellegrini announced his planned departure, City confirmed that Pep Guardiola had agreed to succeed him as manager, with his tenure beginning on 1 July 2016.

In 2022–23, City became only the fifth club to win three successive top-flight titles in England, following Huddersfield Town (1924–26), Arsenal (1933–35), Liverpool (1982–84) and Manchester United, who did it twice under Sir Alex Ferguson (1999-2001 and 2007–09).

It was also the third occasion Guardiola had managed to win three league titles in a row, having done so in La Liga with Barcelona from 2009 to 2011 and in the Bundesliga from 2014 to 2016 with Bayern Munich.

Guardiola has become Manchester City's most successful manager in club history, having won 18 major English, continental and worldwide titles to date.