Manchester City wrapped up the 2022/23 season with an incredible trophy treble, including the Premier League, FA Cup and a first-ever Champions League title.
Pep Guardiola's team defended their Premier League crown ahead of rivals Arsenal and then Rodri's winning goal secured a memorable Champions League final win over Inter Milan in June.
A third Premier League successive title for City brings the club closer to challenging Manchester United as the most successful team in the competition's history after matching their 1999 treble.
The Sporting News looks at City's push to win a fourth straight Premier League title and their chances of hitting another historical landmark.
How many teams have won four Premier League titles in a row?
Seven teams have won the Premier League title since its inaugural campaign in 1992/93 with Manchester City and Manchester United winning 20 of the combined 31 titles.
United have won 13 Premier League titles, with their most recent coming in 2012/13, and City securing seven since 2011/12.
The two Manchester sides are the only clubs to win three successive Premier League trophies, but no team has won four in a row, as City aim to do that in 2024.
- Manchester United (1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01)
- Manchester United (2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09)
- Manchester City (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23)
How many teams have won four league titles in a row?
Across the whole of English football history, three successive league titles have proven to the maximum streak of success, for teams within and before the Premier League era.
Huddersfield Town were the first to win three straight titles when they finished first in 1923-24, 1924-25 and 1925-26.
After that, Arsenal won a hat-trick of titles between 1932 and 1935 with Liverpool the next and last to complete the feat in 1984, before the advent of the Premier League in 1992.
However, four successive league titles has been achieved in some of Europe's major leagues, including the Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1.
Since the creation of the German Bundesliga in 1963, Bayern Munich have dominated the division, with 32 titles won, including three in a row from 1971 to 1974.
Their dominance has taken on a new level in the past decade with the Bavarians winning their 11th successive Bundesliga title at the end of 2022/23.
In Italy's Serie A, Juventus won five successive titles from 1931 to 1935 and an incredible nine straight titles from 2011 to 2020. Local rivals Torino would four in a row from 1945 to 1949 and Inter Milan secured five successive wins from 2005 to 2010.
France has the most diverse range of teams enjoying periods of dominance with Saint-Etienne (1966-1970) and Marseille (1988-1992) winning four in a row, before Lyon won seven back-to-back from 2001 to 2008.
PSG have won nine of the past 11 Ligue 1 titles, but they have never won more than four in succession, with AS Monaco and Lille disrupting their success.
How many Premier League titles have Man City won?
Manchester City have won seven Premier League titles, all coming since 2011, and on the back of the Abu Dhabi state-backed club buyout in 2008.
They have matched United's feat of winning three successive Premier League titles and the treble won by Sir Alex Ferguson in 1999 with the challenge for 2024 set at doing something never before achieved in English football – winning four on the spin.
