Pirmann wins USL Championship Coach of the Month for June

Ben Pirmann took USL Championship Coach of the Month for June after Charleston Battery put together an unbeaten month across all competitions and kept turning good performances into goals. The award landed after a June stretch that included three wins in five outings and a second-half surge that produced record-setting offensive output.

The Battery did not just collect results, they kept doing it in different ways. Pirmann followed a 2-2 road draw at Tampa Bay and a 5-1 win over FC Tulsa with a June run that never turned into a loss, and the league’s recognition on June 16 for Week 14/15 was the first signal that Charleston’s form was more than a hot week. The Battery stayed on the front foot through the month, and the scoring numbers backed it up.

At the 2026 midseason point, Charleston sat second in the Eastern Conference at 8-4-2, but the sharper number was the one at the top of the table: 30 goals, most in the Championship. The Battery also led the league with a 25.09 expected-goals mark and a +9.53 expected-goal differential, a clean statistical read on a side creating more and better chances than almost anyone else in the division. That is not empty volume. It is an attack that is forcing opponents into bad choices and paying them off.

Pirmann’s own season has become part of the story. He reached 100 USL Championship wins in early April when Charleston beat Louisville City FC, making him the sixth head coach in league history to hit that mark. He had already won Coach of the Month once before, in March 2023, and the June honor added another line to a résumé that now matches the Battery’s rise.

Charleston’s head coach said the award “is nice for the club and shows that we’re improving,” and the results around it support that view. Since taking over in 2023, Pirmann has pushed the Battery into a team that is no longer just hanging around the playoff mix. June made that harder to ignore. The Battery’s form, the goals, and the underlying numbers all pointed the same way: Charleston is looking more like a contender than a club enjoying a good month.