Fortuna Vlaardingen

Football club
Fortuna Vlaardingen
Full nameFortuna Vlaardingen
Founded1904
1974 (as FC Vlaardingen '74)
Dissolved1981 (professional branch)
GroundFloreslaan
Vlaardingen
Capacity8000

Fortuna Vlaardingen was a Dutch football club which was founded in 1904 in Vlaardingen. The club played its matches in the Floreslaan stadium.

History

Historical chart of league performance

The club entered the Eerste Divisie in 1956. Fortuna never made it towards the Eredivisie and competed mostly between Eerste and Tweede Divisie. In 1974 the club separated the amateur and the professional branch.

FC Vlaardingen

The professionals remained as FC Vlaardingen '74 and the amateurs kept playing as Fortuna. In 1981 FC Vlaardingen went bankrupt.

The amateurs merged in 2004 with local club TSB to form the new amateur club Victoria '04.

Managers

  • Netherlands Rinus Gosens (1961–64)
  • Netherlands Maarten Vink (1964–65)
  • Netherlands Ko Stijger (1965–66)
  • Hungary Laszlo Zalai (1966–67)
  • Netherlands Jan Brouwer (1967–70)
  • Netherlands Piet de Wolf (1970–72)
  • Netherlands Jan van Baaren (1972–75)[1]
  • Netherlands Theo Laseroms (1975–79)
  • Netherlands Hans Dorjee (1979–80)
  • Netherlands Martin van Vianen (1980)[2]
  • Netherlands Jan de Gier (1980–81)
  • Netherlands Gerard Weber (1985–86)

References

  1. ^ http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd%3A011197268%3Ampeg21%3Ap017%3Aa0304[dead link]
  2. ^ http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd%3A011019017%3Ampeg21%3Ap016%3Aa0255[dead link]

External links

  • Fortuna Vlaardingen: onder valse voorwendselen verleid, Sportboek.nl (in Dutch)