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Frank Lampard's Coventry City clinch Championship title
Champ21 Apr 2026ESPN News Services

Frank Lampard's Coventry City clinch Championship title

Coventry City sealed the Championship title after beating Portsmouth 4-1 at home on Tuesday.

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Coventry City sealed the Championship title after thrashing Portsmouth 5-1 at home on Tuesday. Frank Lampard's side, who confirmed their promotion to the Premier League on Friday, will now go up as champions of England's second tier. United States striker Haji Wright , the club's top scorer this season, broke the deadlock at the CBS Arena on Tuesday with his 17th league goal of the campaign in the 12th minute. Ephron Mason-Clark added a brace in the second half, either side of an own goal from Portsmouth's Regan Poole, to make sure of the three points and the title before Kaine Kesler Hayden netted a fifth in stoppage time. Adrian Segecic scored a consolation for 19th-placed Portsmouth. "It was just a great night," Lampard said in his post-match news conference. "It was so nice because we had the jeopardy of Friday night, which in a weird way was great the way we did it. "That was

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