Fortuna Vlaardingen was a Dutch

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club which was founded in 1904 in

Vlaardingen Vlaardingen () is a large town and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in South Holland in the Netherlands. It is located on the north bank of the Nieuwe Maas river at the confluence with the Oude Maas. The municipality admin ...

. The club played its matches in the Floreslaan stadium.

History

The club entered the

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in 1956. Fortuna never made it towards the

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and competed mostly between Eerste and

Tweede Divisie Tweede Divisie (; ) is the highest amateur (and historically the lowest professional) football league in the Netherlands. It was established in 1956, together with the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie. Between 1956 and 1960 and between 1962 and 19 ...

. 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)http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd%3A011019017%3Ampeg21%3Ap016%3Aa0255 * Jan de Gier (1980–81) * Gerard Weber (1985–86)

References

External links

Fortuna Vlaardingen: onder valse voorwendselen verleid
Sportboek.nl {{in lang, nl Defunct football clubs in the Netherlands Football clubs in Vlaardingen Association football clubs established in 1904 Association football clubs disestablished in 1981 1904 establishments in the Netherlands 1981 disestablishments in the Netherlands