Ben Pirmann reaches 100 USL Championship wins with Charleston Battery

USL Championship · By Marcus Chen · August 7, 2026

Ben Pirmann reached 100 USL Championship wins when Charleston Battery beat Louisville City FC 2-0 at Lynn Family Stadium on April 4, with Laurent Kissiedou and Kirill Pakhomov scoring on either side of halftime. The result gave Charleston its first win in Louisville and snapped Louisville City’s 26-match home unbeaten streak, a sharp enough finish to push Pirmann into the league’s Century Club.

That made Pirmann the sixth head coach to reach 100 league wins, a benchmark that carries more weight than a simple career total. A March 27 preview had already framed the chase around his age and speed to the mark, noting that the 40-year-old could become only the second-youngest manager in USL Championship history to get there. By the time Charleston left Kentucky with the shutout, the milestone had become more than a number. It was proof that Pirmann’s run has been built fast, and built well.

Charleston hired Pirmann as head coach on Nov. 17, 2022, and the club has since settled into a profile defined by results and continuity. The Battery’s own recognition of him as USL Championship Coach of the Month for June, later announced in July, extended that thread of acknowledgment beyond the single victory that delivered the century mark. For Charleston, the 100-win milestone now sits inside a broader stretch of competitive relevance under a coach who has turned steady league points into a lasting expectation.

Ben Pirmann — Wikimedia Commons — John Manard via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The league’s weekly News & Notes column placed Pirmann beside other statistical markers from around the Championship, including Indy Eleven’s Jack Blake equaling a club goalscoring record and the Tampa Bay Rowdies’ Evan Conway continuing a goal contributions streak. That mix is part of why Pirmann’s entry into the Century Club mattered: it was not a ceremonial nod to longevity, but another entry in a league record book still being shaped by current form, individual output and the coaches who keep teams winning long enough to reach milestones that require more than one good season.