The milestone landed in Valencia on Saturday. Federico Valverde struck in the 28th minute, Arda Guler added a second eight minutes later, and Kylian Mbappe sealed it after the hour, carrying Real Madrid to a 3-0 win at Mestalla that drew them level on points with Barcelona. The hosts finished with ten men after Jose Gaya was sent off late on.
Across his two spells at the Santiago Bernabeu, Mourinho now has 97 wins from 126 La Liga games, a 77% rate. The figures were published by Spanish football statistician MisterChip and move Mourinho past Guardiola’s 76.3% at Barcelona, built on 116 wins in 152 matches, the number that had topped the all-time list.
A rivalry closed by 0.7 percentage points
The gap matters because of who sits on either side of it. Mourinho and Guardiola redrew Spanish football between 2010 and 2012. The Portuguese ended Guardiola’s Barcelona dominance by winning the 2011/12 La Liga title, Guardiola left for a sabbatical that summer, and Mourinho himself followed a year later. When he exited La Liga in 2013, Guardiola still held the win-rate ledger. Thirteen years and one Mourinho return later, that has changed.
The rest of the top five sits well behind. Carlo Ancelotti is third at 71.1% (162 of 228), Xavi Hernandez fourth at 69.6% (71 of 102), Zinedine Zidane fifth at 67.8% (124 of 183) and Luis Enrique next at 66.4%.
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The 79.3% caveat
One current manager has a higher percentage still. Hansi Flick is running at 79.3% at Barcelona with 69 wins from 87 league matches. The 100-match minimum keeps him off the ranking for now.
For Mourinho, the context is the run that took him there. Real Madrid have won eight consecutive matches across all competitions, scoring 24 goals in that spell. Mbappe has scored in seven consecutive league fixtures, has 13 league goals this season, and Madrid sit level on points with Flick’s leaders.
Vinicius Junior sat out at Mestalla, serving the final match of a four-game suspension. He is eligible to return for Madrid’s next league fixture.
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