Chris Davie
Published March 3, 2026 5:24pm
Updated March 3, 2026 5:25pm
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KSI says he wants to guide Dagenham and Redbridge to the Premier League (Getty)
KSI has announced that he has purchased a part of non-league football club Dagenham and Redbridge.
The 32-year-old YouTube streamer-turned boxer, whose real name is Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji, has bought a 20 per cent stake in the Essex-based side.
Dagenham and Redbridge currently play in the National League South, which is the sixth tier of the English football league system and two promotions away from the Football League.
In a video announcing his latest purchase, the Britain’s Got Talent judge says his aim is to guide Dagenham and Redbridge to the Premier League.
‘I’ve done boxing, music, YouTube content, I’ve been around the world, I’m a man that does whatever he wants, you can never stop doing what you want. I’m going to buy Dagenham and Redbridge Football Club,’ KSI said.
@ksiI’m so excited to start this journey. It’s gonna be a rollercoaster for sure but I hope to bring Dagenham and Redbridge back to the glory days. For those of you that are OG fans (Race to Division One), you’ll know that this is a full circle moment for me. So join me on this exhilarating adventure and I’ll see you all at Victoria road this Saturday! I’ll be streaming too haha @The Daggers
♬ original sound – KSI
‘The idea excites me so much. I saw the happiness, the joy, I want to bring that back and surpass it. I want the place to be pumping, be an event when you come here.
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‘Playing a video game and owning a football club is very different but with Race to Division One it was a journey but in the end I did it. With this club I want to do the unthinkable, I want to take Dagenham and Redbridge to the Premier League.’
Dagenham and Redbridge currently play in the sixth tier of English football (Getty)
KSI, who is a boyhood Arsenal fan, also wrote: ‘I’m so excited to start this journey. It’s gonna be a rollercoaster for sure but I hope to bring Dagenham and Redbridge back to the glory days.
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‘For those of you that are OG fans [Race to Division One], you’ll know that this is a full circle moment for me.
‘So join me on this exhilarating adventure and I’ll see you all at Victoria road this Saturday! I’ll be streaming too haha.’
Dagenham and Redbridge were in the Football League for nine years before their relegation in 2016.
They currently sit 13th in National League South and five points off the play-offs.
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