Fortuna Vlaardingen

Fortuna Vlaardingen

Full name	Fortuna Vlaardingen
Founded	1904 1974 (as FC Vlaardingen'74)
Dissolved	1981 (professional branch)
Ground	Floreslaan Vlaardingen
Capacity	8000

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

History

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

• Rinus Gosens (1961–64)
• Maarten Vink (1964–65)
• Ko Stijger (1965–66)
• Laszlo Zalai (1966–67)
• Jan Brouwer (1967–70)
• Piet de Wolf (1970–72)

• Jan van Baaren (1972–75)
• Theo Laseroms (1975–79)
• Hans Dorjee (1979–80)
• Martin van Vianen (1980)
• Jan de Gier (1980–81)
• Gerard Weber (1985–86)

External links

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