Fletcher has signed a contract until 2021 (credit: Leyton Orient)
The former West Ham midfielder has signed a deal until the end of the 2020/21 season, after interim head coach Ross Embleton stepped down following a series of poor results at the start of the League Two season.
Orient’s Director of Football, Martin Ling, said: “The board went through the interview process with Carl and he kept coming out on top.
“Everything that we were looking for, he ticked every box.”
Fletcher’s only previous senior management role was with Plymouth between 2011 and 2013.
Since then, he has spent time working at AFC Bournemouth, coaching youth teams and, more recently, he has been in charge of looking after players being loaned out by the Premier League club.
Ling added: “Everyone we spoke to said everything we wanted to hear. We spoke to Stephen Purches at Bournemouth, we had people speak to Eddie Howe and Charlie Daniels.
“We spoke to a couple players who played under him at Plymouth as well as the people at board level at Bournemouth and they all said the same thing – they believe he’s going to make a top-class football manager.”
Embleton stepped up to the head coach role following the death of Justin Edinburgh.
Orient has announced he will return to his position of assistant coach.
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