The game in Athens had finished 1-1 in normal time but spot-kicks from Erling Haaland, Julian Alvarez, Mateo Kovacic, Jack Grealish and Kyle Walker helped us earn our fourth trophy of 2023.
With the dust having now settled, we take a look at some of the more interesting stats surrounding our final triumph.
Pep Effect
Pep Guardiola is now the first coach to win the UEFA Super Cup with three different teams.
Prior to City’s victory, he won the trophy with Barcelona twice in 2009 and 2011 and once with Bayern Munich in 2013.
In 2009, his Champions League-winning Barca side defeated Europa League victors Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 in Monaco, the goal coming from Pedro.
Yaya Toure played for Barca that night while Fernandinho started for the Ukrainian side.
His Barca team defeated Porto 2-0 in the 2011 edition of the competition in Monaco, with Nicolas Otamendi in Vitor Pereira’s opposition starting line-up.
In 2013, Bayern beat Chelsea on penalties in Prague, after the game had finished 2-2 in normal time.
Romelu Lukaku, who played for Inter against City in our Champions League triumph this past season, missed the decisive penalty that evening for the Blues.
Table Topper
Pep Guardiola has now drawn level with Carlo Ancelotti at the top of two UEFA Super Cup record tables.
Our 52-year-old boss now has the joint record for most wins in the competition as a coach with four, alongside the Real Madrid manager.
He also has five victories as a player and a coach combined, which is again the joint most overall with Ancelotti.
On top of his three wins as a manager, Guardiola won the 1992 edition as a player.
After Barcelona drew 1-1 with Werder Bremen at Weserstadion in the first leg – a game Guardiola didn’t play in – the boss was back in the side at Camp Nou as left-back as the home side won 2-1, ensuring a 3-2 aggregate win.
Our Director of Football, Txiki Begiristain, came on as sub in both of those matches at a time when the showpiece was two legs.
City Pep Barca
Pep Guardiola has now won more trophies as a manager with City than he did during his all-conquering spell at Barcelona.
His haul with City, following our UEFA Super Cup triumph, is 15.
That also includes five Premier Leagues, two FA Cups, four League Cups, two Community Shields and the UEFA Champions League.
During his time in the Camp Nou hotseat, he won 14 trophies – three La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey, three Spanish Super Cups, two UEFA Champions Leagues, two UEFA Super Cups and two FIFA Club World Cups.
Let’s hope he can add to his sky blue trophy cabinet in the coming years.
First Timers
The victory over Sevilla represented City’s first win in the UEFA Super Cup.
We became the 25th club to lift the trophy – and the first new winners since Bayern in 2013, when they were managed by Guardiola.
In between, Real Madrid won their second UEFA Super Cup when they defeated Sevilla in 2014 while Luis Enrique’s Barcelona won their fifth by defeating Sevilla 5-4 in 2015.
Real Madrid, managed by Zinedine Zidane, won their third by again beating Sevilla – their third loss in succession – 3-1 in 2016 while the 2017 edition was against won by Los Blancos as they saw off Manchester United 2-1.
In 2018, Atletico Madrid won their third title by defeating rivals Real 4-2 while in 2019 it was the turn of Liverpool who beat Chelsea in an all-English final 5-4 on penalties.
In 2020, Bayern Munich secured their second UEFA Super Cup by defeating Sevilla 2-1 while in 2021 Chelsea also won it for the second time by seeing off Villareal.
Last season, Real won their fifth trophy by beating Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0.
Paying the Penalty
City had history on our side when we entered into the penalty shoot-out to win the UEFA Super Cup.
With our match level 1-1 after normal time, the final went to spot-kicks.
It was the fourth time this had happened in the history of the competition and all three previous games were won by the Champions League winner.
Chelsea beat Villareal 6-5 on penalties in 2021, Liverpool beat Chelsea 5-4 in 2019 and Bayern Munich beat Chelsea 5-4 in 2013.
Interestingly, all shootouts have involved English teams, too.
