Enzo Maresca has been named Manchester City manager as Pep Guardiola’s successor.
The end of a trophy-laden decade under the Spaniard has led the club to turn to his former assistant and here, the Press Association looks at Maresca’s managerial record.
Chelsea
Maresca lifted the UEFA Conference League trophy with Chelsea
Maresca lifted the UEFA Conference League trophy with Chelsea(Rafal Oleksiewicz/PA)
Following promotion from the Championship with Leicester, Maresca was handed his highest-profile job in management as Chelsea sought to make a success of the BlueCo ownership era.
His side won both the Conference League and the Club World Cup and finished fourth in the Premier League to secure Champions League qualification for the first time in three years, having played in the elite competition in 18 of the 19 seasons prior to that absence.
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His second season was less successful, though he left the club fifth in the league table upon his departure on New Year’s Day – they slid to 10th under his short-lived successor Liam Rosenior and interim boss Calum McFarlane.
Maresca won 55 out of 92 games in charge of Chelsea, 59.8 per cent, with 16 draws and 21 defeats. They scored 191 goals, or 2.08 per game, and conceded 98 (1.07 per game). He enjoyed eight wins in succession in November and December 2024 and 14 out of 16 to end the 2024-25 season, including the Club World Cup triumph.
Leicester
Leicester won the Championship under Maresca, front right
Leicester won the Championship under Maresca, front right(Nigel French/PA)
Maresca’s first senior managerial job in England began with six straight wins, and 15 out of 17, as Leicester won the Championship and were promoted back to the Premier League at the first attempt.
They won 31 out of 46 league games and finished on 97 points, just one ahead of second-placed Ipswich, and from the end of September onwards spent just three matchweeks out of first place.
They also reached the FA Cup quarter-finals as Maresca won 68 per cent of his games overall.
Parma
In something of a false start to his managerial career in his native Italy, Maresca spent just 14 games in charge of Parma with only four wins before being sacked in November 2021.
Overall record
Across all three clubs, Maresca has a record of 95 wins, 25 draws and 39 losses in 159 games for a win ratio of 59.7 per cent.
His trophy record consists of the Championship with Leicester and the Conference League and Club World Cup with Chelsea. He was named Premier League manager of the month twice with Chelsea and won the equivalent Championship award on four occasions with the Foxes.
His teams have scored almost two goals per game (1.96, or 312 goals in total) while conceding just over one per game (169, or 1.06 on average).
City connection
Maresca spent a season as assistant to Pep Guardiola at City
Maresca spent a season as assistant to Pep Guardiola at City(Richard Sellers/PA)
An additional trophy came during a season with Manchester City’s elite development squad, effectively their Under-21 side, who won Premier League 2 under Maresca in 2020-21.
His connection to the club deepened when he returned as Guardiola’s assistant for the triumphant 2022-23 campaign – City won the treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and their first ever Champions League title, with summer signing Erling Haaland scoring a record 36 Premier League goals and plundering 52 in all competitions.