Chelsea legend Frank Lampard has won the 2025/26 EFL Championship with Coventry City just four days after promotion back to the Premier League after 25 years was confirmed with the draw against Blackburn Rovers. Coventry sealed automatic promotion with a 1-1 draw vs Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park with a Bobby Thomas equaliser, a leaping header in the 84th min from Victor Torp’s free-kick to send 7,000 travelling Sky Blues fans wild
Coventry then proceeded to seal the Title on Tuesday night by beating Portsmouth 4-1 ending up with 89 points from 44 games 10 points clear of 2nd-placed Millwall with 2 games left.
Coventry City were relegated May 2001 after 34 straight years in the top flight.
Lampard was hired on November 2024 when Coventry were 17th and facing a relegation scrap in the 2024-25 EFL Championship season but with 16 wins in 31 games he took them to the play-offs, lost semi-final to Sunderland who ended up getting promoted.
Lampard on Friday night had said “Automatic promotion wasn’t in our plan… we were like, can we get in the playoffs? Can we get maybe third or fourth… Now these boys have done that and they’ve got up with three games to go.”
Frank Lampard had now been named EFL Championship Manager of the Season for his heroics.
From 17th and relegation fears to automatic promotion in 15 months. Lampard’s now got a chance to prove his doubters wrong at the top level the level where he had first managed Chelsea to Champions League qualification and Everton to escaping relegation.
