Mike Phelan has beaten Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and Antonio Conte to the Premier League Manager of the Month award for August.
Phelan, the caretaker manager at Hull City, won two games out of three to start the season, including an unexpected victory against champions Leicester City and a 2-0 win at Swansea, before narrowly losing a third, 1-0 to United.
The Tigers' feat has been all the more impressive considering they started the campaign with just 13 fit senior players.
Hull City's Mike Phelan crowned August's @BarclaysFooty Manager of the Month: https://t.co/9BTy9EgKTg pic.twitter.com/nYMIMOTJFs
- Premier League (@premierleague) September 9, 2016
"I am honoured," Phelan said of winning the award. "It's an honour you don't expect, being caretaker manager. It's a credit to the football club and to the players for all their endeavours that have given me this achievement.
"It's been a turbulent summer. We had a small amount of players available to us but, to all intents and purposes, they stuck to their task really well and it has got us off to a decent start.
"The players needed some support; we have that now, to some degree. I think that the quality of the players brought into this football will lift the standard and we are hoping we can have a successful season."
Manchester United boss Mourinho, Manchester City manager Guardiola and Chelsea's Conte all made perfect starts at their new clubs winning all three games.
However, at least one of those records will come to an end in the next round of fixtures when City travel to Old Trafford for the Manchester derby on Sept. 10.
Each Premier League captain had a vote for who should win the award, alongside a panel made up of former footballers and managers.
Manchester City's Raheem Sterling was named the Premier League Player of the Month.