The Catalan played two finals as a player and won one and has already qualified three times as a coach.
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As a player: two finals and only one title
The one who was a Barça midfielder won the tournament in the 1991-1992 season edition in what was also his first season with the club blaugrana. He started in the final against Sampdoria, which they won with Koeman’s mythical goal, at Wembley.
In 1994, Guardiola returned to play as a player in the final against Milan in Athens, but the blaugrana fell 4–0 to Milan under the management of Fabio Capello in one of the toughest nights as a player.
After that he could not win the tournament as a culé, not even with Roma, but he did win the European Super Cup twice (1992-92 and 1997-98) with Barcelona and the Recopa in the season (1996-97). .
As coach: Three finals and two victories
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As a coach, he won the Champions League in his first edition at the helm of Barcelona, in the season 2008-2009against Manchester United, in a final played in Rome and He repeated the title in 2010-11 against the same rival at Wembley.
In the 2009-10 and 2011-12 seasons, also with Barcelona, he was eventually eliminated in the semi-finals by those who would eventually become champions, Inter and Chelsea.
At Bayern Munich he was eliminated three times (2014, 2015 and 2016) in the semi-finals against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid respectively.
He was already eliminated for the semi-finals at Manchester City: he was killed in the second round against Monaco and in the quarter-final against Liverpool. The same in the 2018/19 season, when they lost at home to Tottenham after an incredible 4-4 and in 2020 against Olympique de Lyon in the quarter-finals.
In 2021, the coach finally managed to qualify for the final with Manchester City after ten years of drought. The Citizens knocked out Mönchengladbach, Borussia Dortmund and PSG to reach the decisive game in Porto but went down 0-1 against Chelsea and knew for the first time what it is like to lose as a coach.
Source: Goal