Cristina Serra: Age, Origin and Split From Pep Guardiola

Cristina Serra is a Catalan fashion businesswoman from a family of Manresa shopkeepers, and she was Pep Guardiola's partner for about 30 years and his wife from 2014. In January 2025, Spanish media reported that the couple had separated in December 2024, on friendly terms. In May 2026 Guardiola left Manchester City after ten years.

The two have three children, Maria, Màrius and Valentina. Cristina has always kept a low profile, and much of what circulates about her online is copied from site to site without a source. In this guide, OhMyFootball sets out what is documented about her, from her origin and her family business to her life with Guardiola, as of November 2026.

Who is Cristina Serra?

Cristina Serra works in the fashion trade. Time Out Barcelona has described the Serra Claret boutique on Carrer de Provença in Barcelona as a shop run by Cristina and Judith Serra, and says its roots go back to a tailor-made clothes shop opened in Manresa in 1933. The Catalan newspaper Ara also places the couple's first meeting in the Serra Claret clothes shop, run by her family.

To football fans she is best known as the woman at Pep Guardiola's side from his years as a Barcelona player to his decade at Manchester City. She followed him through his career abroad, raised their three children, and in 2019 moved back to Barcelona to run her business, according to the Sunday Mirror as cited by Ara.

Is Cristina Serra still Pep Guardiola's wife?

Cristina Serra and Pep Guardiola married in 2014, but they separated in December 2024. The news came out in January 2025: the journalists Laura Fa and Lorena Vázquez of El Periódico (the "Mamarazzis") reported it first, and Ara confirmed it with sources close to Guardiola, describing a cordial relationship. Neither of them made an announcement. Asked about it shortly afterwards by Europa Press, Cristina said only that everything was fine and that she had nothing to say. We will not speculate about the reasons either.

Guardiola said nothing publicly until August 2026, when the Prime Video documentary A Beautiful Obsession, directed by Kevin Macdonald, showed him speaking to his players in the dressing room after a 2-0 Champions League defeat at Juventus on 11 December 2024. According to Ara, he told them he was going to divorce the most beautiful woman on the planet and that they had lost the passion. The documentary was released on 19 August 2026.

Cristina was at the Etihad with their three children for Guardiola's farewell after his last match, on 24 May 2026, Hola reported. We have not found any official statement about the couple's status since then, nor whether the divorce has been formally completed. As far as is publicly known, nothing more has been announced up to November 2026.

Cristina Serra age and birthday

Cristina Serra's date of birth has not been published by any reliable outlet, so her age, birthday and zodiac sign are not known. The websites that give an exact date for her do not cite a source and contradict each other, so we do not repeat them. Earlier versions of this article gave a birth year and an age; we could not confirm either, so they have been removed.

Pep Guardiola was born on 18 January 1971, so he turned 55 in January 2026.

Where is Cristina Serra from? Her origin

Cristina Serra is Catalan and Spanish. She comes from Manresa, the capital of the Bages region in central Catalonia, north-west of Barcelona. Ara calls her "la manresana", and Time Out places the origin of the family shop in Manresa. We could not find a major newspaper that states her birthplace outright, so we say she is from a Manresa family rather than give a hospital or a date.

The Bages connection is one she shares with Guardiola: he was born in Santpedor, a small town a few kilometres from Manresa.

Serra is her own surname. In Spain women keep their family names when they marry, so she has always been Cristina Serra and did not become Cristina Guardiola.

Cristina Serra's family and the Serra Claret business

According to Time Out Barcelona, the Serra Claret story begins in 1933 with a tailor-made clothes shop in Manresa. Cristina and her sister Judith appear together as the people running the Barcelona boutique in the same listing, which stocked labels such as Marc by Marc Jacobs, Neil Barrett and Dsquared at the time. Earlier versions of this article named her parents; we could not confirm those names in a reliable source and have removed them.

Cristina Serra's career in fashion

Cristina has worked in fashion retail for most of her adult life. Spanish media usually describe her as a businesswoman in the fashion sector. She is often credited with Guardiola's sharp look on the touchline, but neither of them has spoken about it, so take it as a press report and not a confirmed fact.

Earlier versions of this article claimed she owned shops in England and gave figures for her income. We could not find any source for those claims, so they have been removed.

How Pep Guardiola and Cristina Serra met

Most reports date the start of their relationship to 1994, when Guardiola was already a key midfielder in Johan Cruyff's Barcelona. Fashion brought them together: the story told most often is that he met Cristina through the Serra family's clothes shop, Serra Claret. The details vary between accounts, and what everyone agrees on is that they were together for about three decades and kept their relationship out of the public eye.

Their wedding in Matadepera in 2014

Pep and Cristina had been together for about 20 years and had three children before they married. The wedding took place on the morning of 29 May 2014 in the council chamber of the town hall of Matadepera, near Barcelona, ESPN Deportes reported that day. It was a civil ceremony of about half an hour, led by the town's justice of the peace, with only their parents and their three children present. At the time Guardiola was coaching Bayern Munich.

Munich, Manchester and back to Barcelona

Cristina followed Guardiola through a career that took the family far from Catalonia, to Germany and then England. When he took over at Manchester City in 2016, the family moved to Manchester. In 2019, according to the Sunday Mirror, Cristina moved back to Barcelona to run her business and be closer to their school-age children, while Guardiola stayed in England. The couple lived apart for several years before the separation was reported.

This short El Mundo video, in Spanish, is the newspaper's report on the confirmation of the separation in January 2025.

Who is Pep Guardiola?

Pep Guardiola is the Catalan coach who won two Champions League titles with Barcelona and three straight Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich, before a decade at Manchester City. Here is the timeline:

1990 to 2001: Barcelona player, in Cruyff's Dream Team
2008 to 2012: Barcelona coach
2013 to 2016: Bayern Munich coach
2016 to 2026: Manchester City, 20 trophies including six Premier League titles and the 2023 Champions League
From summer 2026: global ambassador for City Football Group

Among the coaches who, like him, came through Barcelona, OhMyFootball has also covered the partners of Luis Enrique, Xavi and Mikel Arteta.

Pep Guardiola in 2026: farewell, documentary and a break

Guardiola's contract ran until 2027, but he left a year early. In his last season, 2025/26, City won the League Cup, beating Arsenal 2-0 at Wembley on 22 March, and the FA Cup, beating Chelsea 1-0 at Wembley on 16 May. The club confirmed on 22 May 2026 that he would leave at the end of the season. His last match was a 2-1 home defeat to Aston Villa on 24 May 2026. The club said the North Stand at the Etihad would be renamed after him, and he became a global ambassador for City Football Group. On 29 June 2026, his former assistant Enzo Maresca was appointed as his successor.

As of November 2026, we have found no report that he has taken a new coaching job.

This is the official trailer of A Beautiful Obsession, the Prime Video series by Kevin Macdonald that followed Guardiola's last seasons at City. It was released on 19 August 2026, and it is the series in which he spoke to his players about his divorce.

Cristina Serra net worth

Cristina Serra's personal net worth is not published by any reliable source, and the accounts of her family's boutiques are not public. Figures you may see on other websites, from $2 million upwards, come with no source at all, and the old figure in this article had none either.

Estimates of Guardiola's own wealth also vary from site to site and none has been confirmed by him or the club, so we do not give a number.

We could not find a public Instagram, X or Facebook account belonging to Cristina Serra, and profiles using her name should be treated with caution. Her few words to the press, such as the comment to Europa Press in January 2025, are rare.

She does not have her own Wikipedia article either; Guardiola's pages mention her in their private-life sections.

Quick facts about Cristina Serra

Full name: Cristina Serra
Known as: Pep Guardiola's partner for about 30 years and his wife from 2014
Age and birth date: not published
Origin: Catalan, from a Manresa family
Work: fashion retail, with the family business Serra Claret, together with her sister Judith
Married: 29 May 2014, Matadepera town hall
Separation: December 2024, reported in January 2025
Children: Maria, Màrius and Valentina
Social media: no public account found

Frequently asked questions about Cristina Serra

Who is Pep Guardiola's wife?

Pep Guardiola married Cristina Serra, his partner since the 1990s, on 29 May 2014. The couple separated in December 2024, as Spanish media reported in January 2025.

How old is Cristina Serra and when is her birthday?

Her date of birth has not been published, so we do not give an age or a birthday.

Where is Cristina Serra from?

Cristina Serra is Catalan, from a family linked to Manresa, where the Serra Claret shop began in 1933 according to Time Out.

Are Pep Guardiola and Cristina Serra divorced?

They separated in December 2024 after about 30 years together, and in footage from December 2024 shown in the 2026 documentary, Guardiola told his players he was going to divorce. Whether the divorce has been formally completed has not been made public.

What is Cristina Serra's net worth?

It is not publicly known. The estimates found online have no reliable basis.

How many children do Pep Guardiola and Cristina Serra have?

They have three children, Maria, Màrius and Valentina, whose names the family has made public. They are not public figures and we do not give their birth details.