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The team has had several name changes since, first as Eagle Cricket Club in 1886, then as Orient Football Club in 1888. The 12 history books written on the club by its historian Neilson N. Kaufman between 1974 and 2015 suggest that the choice of the name Orient came about at the behest of a player, Jack R Dearing, who was an employee of the ...
The club has undergone a number of name changes during its history: from Orient to Clapton Orient in 1898; to Leyton Orient in 1946; a reversion to Orient in 1966, then a return to the Leyton Orient name in 1987. The club has reached the top flight of English football once in its history, a single season in Division One in 1962–63 which ended ...
Brisbane Road, currently known as the Gaughan Group Stadium for sponsorship reasons and originally known as Osborne Road, is a football stadium in Leyton, East London, England. It has been the home ground of Leyton Orient since 1937, before which it was the home of amateur football team Leyton, who moved to the
In 1995 the club merged with Walthamstow Pennant and moved away from Leyton Stadium to become Leyton Pennant F.C., who are now known as Walthamstow. A new Leyton Football Club was established in 1997, and following a High Court case in 2002, won the right to be recognised as a continuation of the original club. A statement by lawyers Richard ...
The 1989 Football League Fourth Division play-off final was an association football match played over two legs between Wrexham and Leyton Orient on 30 May and 3 June 1989. The final was to determine the fourth and final team to gain promotion from the Football League Fourth Division, the fourth tier of English football, to the Third Division.
The 2007–08 Leyton Orient F.C. season was the 109th season in the history of Leyton Orient Football Club, their 92nd in the Football League, and second consecutive season in the third tier of the English football league system. [1]
Tributes have flooded in for a Leyton Orient fan who tragically died on the side of the pitch as his team were 1-0 up. Derek Reynolds, 74, passed away at Brisbane Road during Tuesday evening’s ...
The 2006–07 season was Leyton Orient's 108th season and their 91st in the Football League.It was their first season back in the third tier of the English football league system, Football League One, following promotion in the 2005–06 season.