Dagenham & Redbridge
Dagenham & Redbridge | |||
Basic data | |||
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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 .
League affiliation
- 1992-1996: Football Conference
- 1996-2000: Isthmian League
- 2000-2004: Football Conference
- 2004-2007: Conference National
- 2007-2010: Football League Two
- 2010-2011: Football League One
- 2011-2016: Football League Two
- since 2016: National League
Web links
- Official website (English)