Dagenham & Redbridge

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Dagenham & Redbridge
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Basic data
Surname Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club
Seat London Dagenham
founding 1992
Colours Red Blue
Website daggers.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach Daryl McMahon
Venue Chigwell Construction Stadium
Places 6,078
league National League
2019/20 17th place
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Dagenham & Redbridge (officially: Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club ) - also known as The Daggers - is an English football club based in Dagenham , Greater London, which has played in the National League , the fifth-highest division in England, since the 2016/17 season .

history

The club emerged from the four well-known amateur teams FC Ilford (founded 1881), FC Leytonstone (1886), Walthamstow Avenue (1900) and FC Dagenham (1949). All of these teams have had some success, especially Leytonstone, which won the FA Amateur Cup three times and the Isthmian League title nine times .

In 1979 Ilford and Leytonstone merged to form Leytonstone / Ilford FC and took over the ailing Walthamstow Avenue FC in 1988. The name of this new association was Redbridge Forest . Redbridge moved to Victoria Road in Dagenham soon after it was founded and was promoted to the Football Conference in 1991 . Finally, in 1992, Redbridge and Dagenham merged to form the new Dagenham & Redbridge FC.

After relegation to the Isthmian League in 1996, a rapid rise began in 2000, which reached its peak so far after the 2006/07 season with the first promotion to the professional league.

Just three years later it went one step further. After the 3-2 in the play-off final on May 30, 2010 against Rotherham United , the Daggers rose to League One for the first time . There they did not manage to stay up and were relegated to League Two after only one year .

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