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Millwall striker Josh Coburn has been named the Championship’s player of the month for March.
The 23-year-old scored three goals last month as the Lions won two, drew one and lost one of their four matches.
Coburn scored the winning goal against Derby and an important equaliser at promotion rivals Ipswich with his tally for the season currently standing at nine.
It is the second successive month a Millwall player
Coventry City boss Frank Lampard, Millwall’s Alex Neil, Sergej Jakirovic of Hull City and Middlesbrough head coach Kim Hellberg have all made the shortlist for Championship manager of the season.
The quartet are in contention for the award that was picked up by Burnley’s Scott Parker in 2025.
The winners will be announced on Sunday, 19 April at the English Football League’s annual awards ceremony in London.
The four sides
Southampton’s Tonda Eckert has won the Championship’s manager of the month award for February.
Saints took 13 points from a possible 15 as they went unbeaten last month, finishing with successive wins over QPR and Sheffield Wednesday to move into play-off contention.
Eckert was appointed Southampton’s permanent head coach in December having been in interim charge when Will Still was sacked at the start of November.
He has won 12
Alan Browne, Charlie Hughes, Sam Smith and Caleb Taylor are the nominees for January’s Championship player of the month award.
Browne has come back into favour under Kim Hellberg at Middlesbrough and has been deployed at right wing-back as well as in central midfield.
The 30-year-old Republic of Ireland international helped Boro to five wins in January, scoring in the 4-0 home wins over Southampton and Preston and scoring one
Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna has hailed his team’s “quality and resilience” after being named Championship manager of the month for December.
Town won four of their seven games last month, including a 2-0 victory away to leaders Coventry City, and were beaten only once.
“This award is credit to everyone involved with the team and also the supporters, because it was a really challenging December with lots of games and
Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna, Watford’s Javi Gracia, Sergej Jakirovic of Hull City and Swansea head coach Vitor Matos have been nominated for the Championship’s manager of the month award for December.
McKenna has moved Ipswich into the top three and within two points of second-placed Middlesbrough after taking 14 points from their seven games last month, which included two wins over leaders Coventry.
Watford reappointed Gracia as head coach in
Will Vaulks has won the Fifpro Players Voice award for his work in suicide prevention and mental health awareness.
Having lost two grandparents to suicide, the midfielder led Oxford’s Can We Talk? campaign in tribute to club legend Joey Beauchamp and Jack Badger, a young fan who took his own life shortly before World Mental Health Day.
The scheme has since launched suicide prevention workshops for Oxfordshire schools as well
Chair of the judging panel Danny Wilson said Coventry were a “fantastic team to watch” adding they play “with a freedom their manager applauds and encourages”.
In a double celebration for the club, in-form striker Brandon Thomas-Asante picked up the player of the month award.
The 26-year-old is the joint top-scorer in Championship with 10 goals and bagged six of those in those half-a-dozen games last month.
The Ghana forward
Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim has won the Premier League manager of the month award for October, the first time he has won the accolade.
Amorim, who became United boss in November 2024, led his side to three top-flight wins last month as he eased the pressure on himself following a slow start to the season.
United started October with a win against Sunderland before they claimed three points at
