{"id":540357,"date":"2026-04-20T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540357\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:38:08","slug":"efl-awards-coventrys-frank-lampard-and-middlesbroughs-hayden-hackney-honoured-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540357\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL Awards: Coventry’s Frank Lampard and Middlesbrough’s Hayden Hackney honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Chelsea and England midfielder Lampard took charge of Coventry in November 2024, with the club 17th in the Championship.<\/p>\n

He guided them to the play-offs that season, suffering a last-gasp semi-final defeat by Sunderland,<\/a> but the Sky Blues have used that disappointment as fuel for this campaign, and sealed automatic promotion with a 1-1 draw at Blackburn on Friday.<\/p>\n

Lampard beat Millwall’s Alex Neil, Hull City’s Sergej Jakirovic and Middlesbrough’s Kim Hellberg to the manager of the season award.<\/p>\n

Four of Lampard’s team were named in the Championship team of the season: goalkeeper Carl Rushworth, wing-back Milan van Ewijk, captain Matt Grimes and striker Haji Wright.<\/p>\n

Swansea’s Zan Vipotnik, the Championship’s leading scorer, was nominated for player of the season alongside Rushworth, but both missed out to Hackney.<\/p>\n

EFL Championship manager of the season: Frank Lampard (Coventry City)<\/p>\n

Player of the season: Hayden Hackney (Middlesbrough)<\/p>\n

Young player of the season: Jordan James (Leicester City)<\/p>\n

Apprentice of the season: Louis Page (Leicester City)<\/p>\n

Team of the Season: Carl Rushworth (Coventry City), Tristan Crama (Millwall), Callum Doyle (Wrexham), Josh Tymon (Swansea City), Milan van Ewijk (Coventry City), Matt Grimes (Coventry City), Sorba Thomas (Stoke City), Femi Azeez (Millwall), Hayden Hackney (Middlesbrough), Haji Wright (Coventry City), Zan Vipotnik (Swansea City).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Chelsea and England midfielder Lampard took charge of Coventry in November 2024, with the club 17th in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}