The treble-winners, then, add the Uefa Super Cup to the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League and if the Fifa Club World Cup is won in December they will have claimed five of a possible six trophies in a year - the Community Shield having eluded them due to the spot-kick loss to Arsenal.
Erling Haaland, Julian Alvarez, Mateo Kovacic, Jack Grealish and Kyle Walker were the City men who returned a perfect score in the penalties, after Cole Palmer's 63rd-minute header finally pegged back Sevilla, whose lead derived from Youseef En-Nesyri.
City had been under-par throughout against the Spaniards whose 12th-place finish last term with a goal difference of minus seven, would have cast their triumph as a "major upset".
But, as champion teams do, City found a way.
Seconds after equalising, Palmer went close to the winner but his bending shot was beaten away by Yassine "Bono" Bounou, the Sevilla goalkeeper, who was excellent throughout.
Twenty-seven degrees the mercury read on a sweltering night in the port city of Piraeus where Érik Lamela's sighter, which rolled past Ederson's right post, was an opening act.
Palmer was on the right and he provided City's riposte, the youngster dipping infield and testing Bono, who collected.
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