Founded: 1881
Nickname: The O’s
League Honours: Division 3 South (1955/56), Division 3 (1969/70)

There is some doubt over the foundation of Leyton Orient Football Club in their earliest history. The most favoured version is that the football club stemmed from members of Glyn Cricket Club, who’d keep fit in winter by playing football. Eventually many of the employees of the Orient Shipping Line became involved and so name Orient Football Club was chosen in 1888. The name switched three more times before 1987, when Leyton Orient became the permanent name.

In 1903 Orient FC turned professional, and in 1905 were inducted into Division 2. Orient lost their inaugural Football League fixture 2-1 to Leicester Fosse, and were relegated back to non-league soon after. They returned to the Football League in 1929 and stayed until 1956 when they won their first major honour- winning the Division 3 title under the guidance of Alec Stock. In 1962 Orient were promoted into Division 1, but their stay in the top tier lasted three years and they haven’t managed to return since.

Leyton Orient began the 20^th Century in Division 2 (The Championship) but were relegated to Div 3 in 2004. Between 2006-15 Orient resided in League One but a fall in recent years saw them relegated to the National League in 2017. The 2018/19 season Orient finished top of the Conference and returned to League Two where they finished 17^th on PPG.

This season’s home shirt sponsor comes from ex-orient loanee and current England captain Harry Kane, who has donated his sponsorship to the club who gifted him his first senior games. Kane is a Patron of the Tommy Club, a charity set up by the Royal British Legion celebrating and supporting veterans. Orient have continued their charitable sponsorship to Haven House Children’s Hospice and Mind for their Away and Third kits.

Keith Curle endured a losing return to Sixfields as his Oldham side were beaten by Northampton.

Jon Guthrie and Kion Etete scored the decisive goals before half-time as the Cobblers made it four home wins in a row.

Guthrie gave Northampton the lead after 14 minutes, stabbing home from close range after Oldham made a mess of trying to clear Mitch Pinnock’s free-kick.

Ali Koiki was close to adding an immediate second when his low cross-shot flashed wide and it was not long until Northampton did double their lead as a terrific team move ended with Etete volleying in Pinnock’s deep cross.

Sam Hoskins dragged a good chance wide late in the half and the Latics were back in the game nine minutes into the second half through Carl Piergianni’s scrappy finish at the back post.

The visitors were much better in the second half but they could not force an equaliser with Hallam Hope glancing a header wide and Jamie Hopcutt blazing over late on.

Substitute Jake Scrimshaw rescued a point for bottom-of-the-table Scunthorpe as they came from behind to draw at home to Leyton Orient.

The on-loan Bournemouth striker forced the ball home four minutes after coming off the bench to cancel out Aaron Drinan’s first-half opener.

Play-off hopefuls Orient will view the game as two points dropped, with the wasteful visitors unable to take any of a host of second-half chances.

The O’s dominated throughout and Drinan swept them in front in the 21st minute when he finished off a flowing move upfield.

They went close to doubling their lead nine minutes after the restart when Dan Kemp fired across the face of goal, and Drinan should have done better when he scuffed his shot with only the goalkeeper to beat.

Both misses proved costly as Scrimshaw hooked home at the second attempt when Orient failed to clear a corner in the 64th minute.

Still there were chances for the visitors to take all three points, but Harry Smith fired against the inside of the woodwork and not long after lost his footing when trying to meet a ball at the back post.

Substitute Paul Smyth wasted the best opportunity of the night in the final 10 minutes when he raced clear only to lift his shot wide, allowing the Iron to breath a sigh of relief.

The Cobblers welcomed Leyton Orient to the PTS as they continued their pre-season schedule. Goalkeeper Jonathan Mitchel was one of five summer signings in Keith Curle’s starting eleven while trialist Antonio German was also named in the side. Former Cobblers left-back Joe Widdowson was a familiar figure for the O’s.

Sam Hoskins opened the scoring on 15 minutes, last season’s top goalscorer on the end of a ball in from Michael Harriman to find the top corner with a neat volley.

Lee Angol cracked the cross bar with a well-struck free-kick from 30-yards as Orient went close to an equaliser before Matt Warburton volleyed over for the Cobblers.

There was a change in goal for the Cobblers at half-time with Steve Arnold on for Mitchell and it was the home side who created the first chance of the second half, Lawrence Vigouroux saving from Warburton at the near post.

Trialists Connor Johnson, Samir Carruthers and Ricky Korboa were all given some game time as Curle made a number of changes throughout the second half while James Brophy flashed a shot just wide for the visitors.

A curling effort from Chris Lines clipped the post and Ethan Johnston saw a header saved from a Lines free-kick as the Cobblers went close to a second but it was Hoskins first half strike that settled the contest.

Highlights of the two clubs last meeting together.

Played	Won	Draw	Lost	F	A
81	30	22	29

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Referee: Andrew Kitchen

Assistants: Grant Taylor and Kevin Morris

Fourth Official: Michael Chard

Kitchen has been in charge of 12 games this season across league one and two, showing 33 yellow cards and one red.

The official was in charge of the O’s opening game of the season away at Salford City. He distributed two yellow cards that afternoon with both Salford and Orient taking one each

This is Mr Kitchens first Cobblers game.

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1	Northampton are without a win in their last three home games against Leyton Orient in the Football League (D2 L1). The last time they went four home games without victory in the Football League against the O’s was March 1964.
2	Leyton Orient have won just one of their last nine Football League games against the Cobblers (D4 L4). The O’s only win during that run was a 1-0 victory at Sixfields Stadium in October 2019.
3	Only Leyton Orient (157) have faced fewer shots in League Two this season than Northampton Town (174).
4	Leyton Orient manager: Kenny Jackett has never recorded an away league win against Northampton in six previous attempts (D3 L3), now facing them with his fourth different club in the EFL, after Portsmouth, Millwall and Swansea.