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Leyton Orient

Leyton Orient F.C. are an English football team recently promoted to League One of the Football League. The team is also known as Orient or The O's. more...

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Leyton Orient's home stadium is the Matchroom Stadium on Brisbane Road, in Leyton, Waltham Forest, in Greater London. Matchroom is the name of chairman Barry Hearn's sports promotion company. The stadium was recently refurbished. Barry Hearn became chairman in 1995 after the club was famously put on sale for five pounds by the then-chairman, the late Tony Wood OBE, after his coffee-growing business in Rwanda was destroyed by that country's civil war. The period of the club's near-closure was covered by the Channel Four television documentary Orient: Club for a Fiver. The documentary is commonly but incorrectly known as Yours for a Fiver.

Historic rivals include neighbours Leyton FC, Leytonstone FC, Walthamstow Avenue and The Wanderers FC; however these rivalries dissolved decades ago due to these rivals still being in the non-league pyramid. The O's nearest 'League' rival are West Ham United. However, this 'Eastend' derby rarely takes place as most of their history has been spent in different divisions.

Leyton Orient spent 1 season in top-flight football in in 1962-3. Though the O's were relegated, they had 3 memorable victories within the space of 12 days against rivals West Ham, eventual champions Everton, and Manchester United. In August 1974, they were Manchester United's first opposition in their only postwar Second Division campaign. In 1978, Orient reached the semi-finals of the F.A Cup for the first and only time in their history, under the management of Jimmy Bloomfield. Between October 1993 and September 1995, Orient did not win a single away game in the league. This terrible run of form saw them finish bottom of Division Two in 1994-95.

Famous players to have worn the Orient shirt include Laurie Cunningham, Chris Turner (who was also joint manager in the 1994-95 season), Alvin Martin, Les Sealey and Peter Shilton. During the 1996-97 season, the 47-year-old Shilton kept goal for Orient in nine Division Three games which were to be the last of his 1005-game, 30-year league career. On 22nd December 1996 he played his 1,000th league game in Orient's home win over Brighton. Some of the great goal scorers have included Tommy Johnston, David Dunmore and Peter Kitchen and more recently Carl Griffiths, Gary Alexander and Matthew Lockwood.

The club's current manager is Martin Ling, who took over from Paul Brush in 2003. Notable former managers include Frank Clark, Pat Holland and Tommy Taylor.

Origins

Leyton Orient was originally formed by members of the Glyn Cricket Club in 1881. The team has had several name changes since, first as Eagle Football Club in 1886 then as Orient Football Club in 1888. History books written on the Club by its Historian Neilson N Kaufman suggest that the choice of the name Orient came about at the behest of a player who was an employee of the Orient Shipping Company (later to be taken over by P&O). The club's name was changed again to Clapton Orient in 1898 to represent the area of London in which they played. However, some historians think the name Orient was simply chosen due to its oddity and has no connections to them being an East-end club.