COVENTRY City head coach Frank Lampard won the Championship manager of the season award just days after guiding the Sky Blues to promotion.
Lampard took the top manager’s prize at the EFL Awards show held in London.
The Coventry boss ended the club’s 25-year exile from the Premier League after securing promotion with three matches left to play following a 1-1 draw against Blackburn Rovers.
The Sky Blues have also scored more goals (85) than any other side in the Football League this season.
Coventry have also won 25 games in the Championship – the most the Sky Blues have won in a single season in the club’s history.
Lampard said: “I was emotional the other night becuase it dawned on me in that moment what we had acheived.
“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.
“You have to credit Mark Robins 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.
“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 pleased to be a part of it.”
A total of four Coventry players also earned a place in the Championship team of the season.
Goalkeeper Carl Rushworth, defender Milan van Ewijk, midfielder Matt Grimes and forward Haji Wright all featured in the side.
Rushworth missed out on the Championship player of the season award to Middlesbrough’s Hayden Hackney.
The goalkeeper has recorded 16 clean sheets since arriving on loan from Brighton and Hove Albion in the summer.
Full-back van Ewijk has impressed at both ends of the pitch and has produced eight assists, more than any other Sky Blues player this season.
Captain Grimes has led by example for Coventry this term and has played in all 43 league games for the club so far this season.
And forward Wright tops the club’s goalscoring charts with 16 goals which includes a hat-trick against Middlesbrough in a top-of-the-table clash which helped swing momentum back in City’s favour.
