Coventry, the dominant force in the second-tier this season, have not dropped out of the Championship top two since September and are a win away from going up to the Premier League<\/a> as champions, having already secured automatic promotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lampard has been at the forefront of the side’s success since taking over in November 2024, and has gone one step further this term after overseeing a failed playoff bid last season.<\/p>\n He will now lead the Sky Blues into their first Premier League season since 2001.<\/p>\n “I was emotional the other night [securing promotion at Blackburn] because it dawned on me in that moment what we had acheived,” Lampard said after winning the award on Sunday.<\/p>\n “A club that I walked into 16 months ago that had gone to the depths and back up, and football is always about people and always about supporters and I’d missed it.<\/p>\n “You have to credit Mark Robins [previous head coach] for what he did at the club, the owner Doug King and appreciate the moment, and I’m working with a great group of players.<\/p>\n “When you walk into a group forget the football talent, that’s obviously important but when they look after themselves, they train well, they support each other, they have a laugh, that’s the gold. It’s an incredible story and I’m please to be a part of it.”<\/p>\n Coventry achieved promotion as a non-parachute payment (financial packages given to relegated clubs by the Premier League) receiving club and will now make the step up to the top-flight that will not only be challenging on the pitch but also in the boardroom.<\/p>\n – Lampard’s Coventry City promoted to Premier League<\/a> Lampard said he wants the club to be “ambitious” in the summer but is also aware of the challenge the Premier League will pose to a Coventry side that have been away from the big time for so long.<\/p>\n “There’s alot of work to do because we know the step that it will be for the football club,” the former Chelsea<\/a> and Everton<\/a> boss told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n “So that’s something we have to work on quickly now because of where we’re at, we have to be ambitious — we’re Coventry City football club.<\/p>\n “I know what the Premier League is and its going to be a challenge, we can enjoy the moment for the next two weeks, but of course we have to work behind the scenes to ensure we go up the right way.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 20, 2026, 05:45 AM ET Frank Lampard has been named the EFL Championship Manager of the Season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-401620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Frank Lampard is set for a return to the Premier League with Coventry.\u00a0Lewis Storey\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
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