Fortuna Vlaardingen Explained

Clubname:Fortuna Vlaardingen
Fullname: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.

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Notes and References

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