COVENTRY City head coach Frank Lampard and goalkeeper Carl Rushworth are on the shortlist for the EFL’s Championship manager and player of the season awards respectively.
Lampard has guided the Sky Blues to the brink of promotion this season with Coventry 12 points clear at the top of the Championship table with five matches left to play.
In his first full season at the helm, Lampard has Coventry within touching distance of a return to the Premier League for the first time in 25 years.
The Sky Blues have also scored more goals than any other team, 84, in the entirety of the Football League this campaign.
Millwall’s Alex Neil, Hull City’s Sergej Jakirovic and Middlesbrough’s Kim Hellberg are also up for the Championship’s magager of the season award.
Coventry goalkeeper Rushworth is on the shortlist for the player of the season prize after recording 15 clean sheets this season.
The keeper joined the Sky Blues on loan from Premier League side Brighton and Hove Albion in the summer.
And he has quickly become a fans favourite at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
Rushworth embarked on a run of 613 minutes without conceding a goal for the Sky Blues earlier this season.
The streak marks the longest run without conceding a goal of any goalkeeper in the club’s history.
His run also eclipsed the previous record of 608 minutes set by Horace Pearson in 1934 some 91 years ago.
Middlesbrough’s Hayden Hackney, Millwall’s Femi Azeez and Swansea City’s Zan Vipotnik are also up for the Championship’s player of the season award.
The winners will be announced live at the league’s annual awards ceremony on Sunday, April 19.
Sky Sports Football will broadcast the ceremony live from 8.30pm on the night.
