Ilkay Gundogan’s Manchester City legacy has been placed back in sharp focus after the club marked his Etihad career with a new trophy photograph.
City confirmed on July 7 that Gundogan was invited to Space Studios for a legacy ‘shoot’ surrounded by the 14 major trophies he won across two spells in Manchester. The official club piece records the numbers cleanly: nine seasons, 358 appearances, 65 goals and 14 trophies, including five Premier League titles and the 2022/23 Champions League.
Timely standard for Maresca’s new City
For Enzo Maresca, the timing is pointed. City are moving into a post-Pep Guardiola reset, but Gundogan’s photograph is more than nostalgia. It is a reminder of the midfield judgement, penalty-box timing and cold authority that defined the best years of the modern City machine.
- Appearances: 358
- Goals: 65
- Major trophies: 14
- Defining role: first City captain to lift the Champions League
ReadManCity recently covered Gundogan’s suggestion that he could coach City in the future, and this new tribute sharpens that succession theme. The squad Maresca inherits is being rebuilt, but the benchmark remains brutally clear: Gundogan was never the loudest star, just one of the most decisive. That is the cultural bar every new midfield signing now has to chase.
Ilkay Gundogan and the 14 trophies he won at Man City.
— City Report (@cityreport_) July 7, 2026
