Real Madrid’s 3-0 win at Valencia on Saturday was the match that pushed Jose Mourinho past Pep Guardiola in La Liga’s historic win-rate standings. Two days later, the league stamped the month that got him there.
La Liga confirmed on Monday that Mourinho had taken the LaLiga EA SPORTS Manager of the Month award for October, after Real Madrid won every fixture in the month: 1-0 at Villarreal, 4-1 against Sevilla and 2-1 at Barcelona in the first Clasico of the season, played at Spotify Camp Nou on 25 October.
“Real Madrid have enjoyed an outstanding month, winning every match they have played and demonstrating their excellent form under the Portuguese manager,” La Liga said in its announcement.
Mourinho beat Atletico Madrid’s Diego Simeone and Real Sociedad’s Pellegrino Matarazzo in the final vote. He succeeds Barcelona’s Hansi Flick, who was named Manager of the Month for September.
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Past Guardiola in the all-time standings
The Valencia result carried a separate piece of weight. Across his two spells at Real Madrid, Mourinho has now won 97 of his 126 La Liga matches, a 77% win rate that lifts him above Guardiola’s 76.3% at the top of the all-time standings for coaches with at least 100 matches in the division.
The threshold is what shapes the table. Flick’s early run at Barcelona sits higher in raw percentage terms, but his sample is still below the 100-match bar that defines the ranking, which is why Mourinho has been named the record holder.
Eight straight, all competitions
The eight-game streak, described as Real Madrid’s longest since 2022, spans all three competitions Madrid are active in this season, with Valencia the latest on the list. Madrid’s October record alone was a perfect nine points from nine in a month framed by the Clasico win.
It is Mourinho’s first Manager of the Month award since his return to the Bernabeu for the 2026-27 season, 13 years after he left the club at the end of his first stint.
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Still looking up at Barcelona
The run has closed the gap, not opened one. Before matchday 12, Barcelona led La Liga on 30 points, with Atletico Madrid on 28 and Real Madrid third on 27, a table that has moved since with Saturday’s results but still leaves Flick’s defending champions at the top of the division going into the November international break.
The next Clasico is scheduled for the spring, at the Bernabeu.
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