Leyton Orient W.F.C.

Last updated

Leyton Orient Women F.C. is a women's football team based in Leyton, an inner city district in east London in England. The team compete in the Greater London Women's Football League, in division 1 (North). The club play home games at the Buckhurst Hill FC Sports Ground, located on Roding Lane, a ten minute walk from Buckhurst Hill tube station. They occasionally play at the Breyer Group Stadium at Brisbane Road, Leyton, the home of Leyton Orient F.C.

The current management team consists of Danny Martin (Head Coach), Olivia Worsfold (Assistant Coach/Player), and Chris Bright (Assistant Coach).

Leyton Orient Women are nicknamed the O's. [1]

Leyton Orient Women F.C. are now active at tier 7 of the women's football hierarchy. [2]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leyton</span> Town in east London, England

Leyton is a town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It borders Walthamstow to the north, Leytonstone to the east, and Stratford to the south, with Clapton, Hackney Wick and Homerton, across the River Lea, to the west. The area includes New Spitalfields Market, Leyton Orient Football Club, as well as part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The town consists largely of terraced houses built between 1870 and 1910, interspersed with some modern housing estates. It is 6.2 miles (10 km) north-east of Charing Cross.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leyton Orient F.C.</span> Association football club

Leyton Orient Football Club is a professional football club based in Leyton, East London, England, who compete in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. They are the second oldest football club in London to play at a professional level, and are known to their fans by their nickname "the O's". The club's home colours are all red. They have played home matches at Brisbane Road since 1937, having previously played at Millfields and Lea Bridge Road.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leyton F.C.</span> Football club

Leyton Football Club was an English association football club based in Leyton, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The club withdrew from the Isthmian League Division One North in January 2011 due to severe financial difficulties, and disbanded. The first club to go by the name was founded in 1868, and the last incarnation of the club, which began playing in 1997, won a High Court action in 2002 in support of its claim to be a continuation of the original team, making it at that stage the second oldest existing club in Greater London, after Cray Wanderers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eton Manor F.C.</span> Association football club in England

Eton Manor Football Club was a football club based in East London, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Justin Edinburgh</span> English association football player and manager (1969–2019)

Justin Charles Edinburgh was an English professional football manager and player who played as a left back.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Southall F.C.</span> Association football club in England

Southall Football Club is a football club representing Southall in the London Borough of Ealing, England. The club is affiliated to the Middlesex County Football Association. They are currently members of the Isthmian League South Central Division.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Bart-Williams</span> Sierra Leonean-English footballer

Christopher Gerald McClellan Bart-Williams is an English football coach and former professional footballer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brisbane Road</span> Football stadium in East London

Brisbane Road, currently referred to as The Breyer Group Stadium for sponsorship purposes, and originally known as Osborne Road, is a football stadium in Brisbane Road, 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 F.C., who moved to the Hare and Hounds ground. The highest attendance at the ground was 34,345 for the visit of West Ham United in the 1964 FA Cup. It has hosted a number of England U-16 and England women's team matches. It hosted the 2007–08 FA Women's Premier League Cup final. It was also home of the Tottenham Hotspur Reserves. In 2012 Brisbane Road hosted the final of the inaugural NextGen series, a competition for the academy sides of elite clubs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kevin Nugent (footballer)</span> English footballer

Kevin Patrick Nugent is an English professional football manager and former player. He is the manager of the Millwall U23 team.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charlie Lee (English footballer)</span> English association football player

Charlie Lee is an English professional football coach and former player, who played as a defender or midfielder. He is an academy coach at EFL League Two club Leyton Orient.

Simon Clark is an English former professional footballer. He is currently the Lead Coach of the Under-18's AFC Wimbldeon Academy team.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2001 Football League Third Division play-off Final</span> Association football match

The 2001 Football League Third Division play-off Final was an association football match which was played on 26 May 2001 at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, between Blackpool and Leyton Orient. It was to determine the fourth and final team to gain promotion from the Football League Third Division to the Second Division. The top three teams of the 2000–01 Football League Third Division, Brighton & Hove Albion, Cardiff City and Chesterfield, gained automatic promotion to the Second Division, while those placed from fourth to seventh place in the table took part in play-offs. The winners of the play-off semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2001–02 season in the Second Division. The losing semi-finalists were Hartlepool United and Hull City who had been defeated by Blackpool and Leyton Orient respectively. It was the first season that the play-off finals were contested at the Millennium Stadium during the redevelopment of Wembley Stadium.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2014 Football League One play-off Final</span> Football match

The 2014 Football League One play-off Final was an association football match which was played on 25 May 2014 at Wembley Stadium, London, between Leyton Orient and Rotherham United to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from Football League One to the Football League Championship. The top two teams of the 2013–14 Football League One season gained automatic promotion to the Championship, while the teams placed from third to sixth place in the table partook in play-off semi-finals; the winners of these semi-finals competed for the final place for the 2014–15 season in the Championship.

Scott Connor Kashket is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for League Two club Gillingham. He has also played in his youth career for Spanish B side club Hércules, Wingate & Finchley, and Leyton Orient, and in his senior career for League Two Leyton Orient, National League South Welling United, Wycombe Wanderers and Crewe Alexandra.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Freddy Moncur</span> English footballer

Freddy Daniel Moncur is an English professional footballer who plays for Ware as a midfielder.

Henry Oliver Ochieng is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chelmsford City. Born in England, he represents Kenya at youth level.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Connor Wood (footballer)</span> English footballer

Connor Oliver Wood is an English professional footballer who plays for Leyton Orient as a left back and left winger.

The 2019–20 season is the 121st season in the history of Leyton Orient Football Club, their 102nd in the Football League, and the first back in League Two for three years following promotion last season.

The 2020–21 EFL League Two was the 17th season of Football League Two under its current title and the 29th season under its current league division format.

The 2021–22 EFL League Two was the 18th season of Football League Two under its current title and the 30th season under its current league division format.

References

  1. Slegg, Chris; Garry, Tom. Women's Football Yearbook 2018-19. Legends Publishing. p. 274.
  2. "Greater London Women's Football League". Full-Time. TheFA.