Super Cup facts: Man City vs Sevilla

UEFA Champions League winners Manchester City make their first appearance in the UEFA Super Cup against one of the sides they overcame on their way to glory in June, Sevilla – who responded to an early Champions League elimination by clinching their seventh title in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League.

Pep Guardiola's side won 4-0 in Seville and 3-1 in Manchester in last season's Champions League group stage – making it four City wins in as many matches against Sevilla – and went on take the trophy unbeaten, their eighth win in their 13 fixtures a 1-0 final triumph against Inter Milan in Istanbul on 10 June.

Sevilla won only one of their six games in the 2022/23 Champions League but once again reigned supreme in the Europa League, winning four of their nine fixtures – all those victories coming at home – before beating Roma 4-1 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Budapest.

This is the eighth Anglo-Spanish fixture in the Super Cup, with England having four victories in those previous seven contests to Spain's three.

Super Cup pedigree

Manchester City

This is City's first appearance in the Super Cup; they are the 40th club to feature and the third successive debutants after Eintracht Frankfurt last year and Villarreal in 2021 – who both lost.

The Champions League winners have lifted the Super Cup in nine of the last ten contests, the exception Atlético de Madrid's 2018 success against Real Madrid.

City are the seventh English club to feature in the Super Cup, after Liverpool (1977, 1978, 1984, 2001, 2005, 2019), Chelsea (1998, 2012, 2013, 2019, 2021), Manchester United (1991, 1999, 2008, 2017), Nottingham Forest (1979, 1980), Aston Villa (1982) and Arsenal (1994).

The Cityzens would become the sixth English side to win the Super Cup and the third in five years after Liverpool's triumph in 2019 and Chelsea's 2021 success.

City are aiming to become the 25th club to lift the trophy and the first new winners since Bayern München in 2013.

A total of 14 clubs have lost on their only Super Cup appearance, most recently Frankfurt against Real Madrid in Helsinki in 2022.

English sides have won on nine of their 19 Super Cup appearances.

City manager Pep Guardiola has won the Super Cup three times as a coach (Barcelona 2009, 2011, Bayern 2013) and once as a player (Barcelona 1992). Victory would take Guardiola level with Carlo Ancelotti as the coach with most Super Cup wins (four) and would make him the first to win it with three different teams.

Sevilla

This is Sevilla's seventh appearance in the Super Cup, matching AC Milan; only Barcelona (nine appearances) and Real Madrid (eight) can better that.

Sevilla have only ever featured as UEFA Cup/ Europa League winners. Their record is W1 L5:
2006: 3-0 v Barcelona (Monaco)
2007: 1-3 v AC Milan (Monaco)
2014: 0-2 v Real Madrid (Cardiff)
2015: 4-5 v Barcelona (aet, Tbilisi)
2016: 2-3 v Real Madrid (aet, Trondheim)
2020: 1-2 v Bayern München (aet, Budapest)

Sevilla's defeat by Bayern three years ago set a new record for Super Cup losses, one more than Barcelona. Their last three defeats have all come after extra time.

Spanish sides have won the Super Cup a record 16 times, with a further 14 runners-up appearances; Liga clubs triumphed every year bar one between 2009 and 2018 and again in 2022.

This is Spain's 31st Super Cup appearance – a competition record.

Sevilla have been involved in the highest-scoring Super Cup game (2015, Barcelona 5-4 Sevilla) and also boast the joint-biggest winning margin in a single-leg tie (2006, Sevilla 3-0 Barcelona).

Previous meetings

2022/23 UEFA Champions League group stage
Sevilla 0-4 Manchester City
Manchester City 3-1 Sevilla

City's 4-0 win in Spain on Matchday 1 equalled Sevilla's record home European defeat came thanks to two goals from Erling Haaland on his European debut for City (20, 67) and one each from Phil Foden (58) and Rúben Dias (90+2).

Rafa Mir gave the visitors a 31st-minute lead in Manchester on Matchday 6 but Rico Lewis levelled for the home side seven minutes into the second period, further goals from Julián Álvarez (73) and Riyad Mahrez (83) giving City the points.

That helped the English side to finish first in Group G on 14 points, five ahead of second-placed Borussia Dortmund, with Sevilla transferring to the Europa League having finished third on five points.

2015/16 UEFA Champions League group stage
Manchester City 2-1 Sevilla
Sevilla 1-3 Manchester City

City had to come from behind at the City of Manchester Stadium on Matchday 3, Yevhen Konoplyanka having given the visitors a 30th-minute lead. Adil Rami's own goal levelled matters six minutes later and, just when it looked as if the game would end all square, Kevin De Bruyne struck a minute into added time to give Manuel Pellegrini's City the win.

All the goals came in the first half at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán a fortnight later, Raheem Sterling (8) and Fernandinho (11) giving the away team an early two-goal cushion. Benoît Trémoulinas (25) halved the deficit for Unai Emery's Sevilla, but Wilfried Bony's 36th-minute strike secured City's victory.

The English club went on to finish first in Group D and eventually reached their first Champions League semi-final; Sevilla were third in the section but moved across to the Europa League and won that competition for a record third season in a row.

Form guide

Manchester City

Record vs Spanish clubs: W13 D6 L10

City won the Champions League for the first time in 2022/23, beating Inter 1-0 in the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul thanks to a second-half goal from Rodri. Guardiola's team had finished top of Group G before knockout wins against Leipzig (1-1 a, 7-0 h), Bayern (3-0 h, 1-1 a) and holders Real Madrid (1-1 a, 4-0 h).

The final victory brought Guardiola level with Zinédine Zidane and Bob Paisley with three European Cup wins as a coach in total. Only Ancelotti has more with four.

Guardiola, a winner with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011, also became the sixth coach to win the European Cup with two different clubs, after Ernst Happel (Feyenoord 1970, Hamburg 1983), Ottmar Hitzfeld (Borussia Dortmund 1997, Bayern 2001), José Mourinho (Porto 2004, Inter 2010), Jupp Heynckes (Real Madrid 1998, Bayern 2013) and Ancelotti (AC Milan 2003, 2007, Real Madrid 2014, 2022).

Haaland was the top scorer in the competition with 12 goals including five in the round of 16 second leg against Leipzig. Midfielder Rodri was selected as Player of the Season.

The Cityzens also won the Premier League and the FA Cup in 2022/23, making them England's first treble winners since Manchester United in 1998/99. They became the tenth European team to win the treble and the first since Bayern in 2020.

City have won eight of their last 11 matches against Spanish clubs (D2 L1). The sole defeat in that sequence was a 3-1 extra-time loss at Real Madrid in the 2021/22 Champions League semi-final second leg that sealed a 6-5 aggregate defeat.

This is City's first game against Spanish opponents on neutral territory.

City's only previous visit to the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium brought a 1-0 win at Olympiacos 1-0 in Champions League Group C in 2020/21, a result that secured their place in the round of 16. Foden scored the only goal of the game in the first half.

City's only other game in Greece was a 0-0 draw at Aris Thessaloniki in the 2010/11 Europa League round of 32 first leg.

City's record in two UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W2 L0:
4-2 v Midtjylland, 2008/09 UEFA Cup second qualifying round
4-3 v Aalborg, 2008/09 UEFA Cup round of 16

Sevilla

Record vs English clubs: W10 D7 L8

Sevilla won a record-extending seventh UEFA Cup/ Europa League in 2022/23, beating Roma 4-1 on penalties in the final at Budapest's Puskás Aréna following a 1-1 draw after extra time. The Andalusians had finished third in Champions League Group G on five points and moved into the Europa League knockout round play-offs. There they beat PSV Eindhoven (3-0 h, 0-2 a) before further victories against Fenerbahçe (2-0 h, 0-1 a), Manchester United (2-2 a, 3-0 h) and Juventus (1-1 a, 2-1 h aet).

That win means Sevilla will be playing in the 2022/23 Champions League group stage. Their best European Cup performances came in 1957/58 and 2017/18 when they reached the quarter-finals, losing to Real Madrid and Bayern respectively.

Sevilla have won four more UEFA Cup/Europa Leagues than any other side – three-time champions Inter, Liverpool, Juventus and Atlético are their closest rivals.

Jesús Navas was named the 2022/23 Europa League Player of the Season.

Sevilla finished 12th in La Liga last season and were knocked out of the Copa del Rey at the quarter-final stage. It was their lowest Liga finish since 1999/2000, when they were relegated in bottom place.

The Andalusian club have won both of their European finals against English opponents, beating Middlesbrough 4-0 in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup and Liverpool 3-1 in the 2015/16 Europa League. They have won all four single-leg UEFA ties against English opposition on neutral terrain, the most recent a 2-1 comeback defeat of Manchester United in the 2019/20 Europa League semi-final in Cologne.

The second-leg win against United in last season's Europa League quarter-finals is one of only two victories in Sevilla's last eight matches against English clubs (D2 L4).

Sevilla have played once in the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in UEFA competition, losing 2-1 at Olympiacos in the 1995/96 UEFA Cup second round second leg to go through on away goals after a 2-2 aggregate draw.

The Spanish side's last visit to Athens brought a 4-1 victory at AEK in the 2007/08 Champions League third qualifying round second leg to complete a 6-1 aggregate success. That made their record in Greece W2 D1 L3; in Athens and Piraeus it is W2 L2 with wins on their last two visits.

Sevilla's record in seven UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W6 L1:
4-3 v PAOK, 1990/91 UEFA Cup first round
3-1 v Espanyol, 2006/07 UEFA Cup final
2-3 v Fenerbahçe, 2007/08 UEFA Champions League round of 16
4-3 v Real Betis, 2013/14 UEFA Europa League round of 16
4-2 v Benfica, 2013/14 UEFA Europa League final
5-4 v Athletic Club, 2015/16 UEFA Europa League quarter-final
4-1 v Roma, 2022/23 UEFA Europa League final

Links and trivia

Haaland scored four of Dortmund's five goals against Sevilla in the 2020/21 Champions League round of 16, two in each leg (3-2 a, 2-2 h).

Navas joined Manchester City from Sevilla in 2013, making 123 Premier League appearances for the club, scoring four times and winning the league title in 2013/14 and two English League Cups. He rejoined his boyhood club in 2017.

Fernando joined Manchester City from Porto in 2014, playing 64 times in the Premier League and scoring four goals, before signing for Galatasaray in 2017. He then joined Sevilla from the Turkish side two years later.

Have also played in England:
Erik Lamela (Tottenham 2013–21)
Rafa Mir (Wolves 2018-21, Nottingham Forest 2019/20 loan)
Suso (Liverpool 2012–14)

Lamela has faced City more than any other club in his career, winning four of his 13 matches (D1 L8) and scoring twice.

Adnan Januzaj began his career in England with Manchester United, scoring five goals in 50 Premier League appearances for City's local rivals.

Loïc Badé spent the first part of 2022/23 on loan at Nottingham Forest from Rennes, although he did not make a single appearance. The defender moved to Sevilla, also initially on loan, in January.

Have played in Spain:
Aymeric Laporte (Athletic Club 2012–18)
Rodri (Villarreal 2016–18, Atlético Madrid 2018/19)
Mateo Kovačić (Real Madrid 2015–18)

Have played together:
Erling Haaland & Thomas Delaney (Borussia Dortmund 2020/21)
Julián Álvarez & Gonzalo Montiel (River Plate 2017–21)

Guardiola faced Sevilla 13 times as a player, 11 in La Liga and two in the UEFA Cup, with the record W7 D3 L3. As a coach his record against Sevilla is W10 D2 L2.

Ivan Rakitić's goal gave Barcelona a 1-0 home win against City in the 2014/15 Champions League round of 16 second leg and a 3-1 victory on aggregate.

International team-mates:
Julián Álvarez & Gonzalo Montiel, Erik Lamela, Marcos Acuña, Alejandro Gómez (Argentina)
Kevin De Bruyne & Adnan Januzaj (Belgium)

Álvarez, Montiel, Acuña and Gómez were all part of Argentina's victorious squad at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Montiel converting the decisive penalty in the final shoot-out win against France.

Acuña, Gómez and Álvarez were all in the Argentina squad that won the inaugural Finalissima last summer, although only the latter appeared, as a second-half substitute, in the 3-0 win against Italy at Wembley on 1 June 2022.