Fortuna Vlaardingen was a Dutch
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...
club which was founded in 1904 in
Vlaardingen
Vlaardingen () is a city 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 administers an area of , of which is land, with residents in .
Geog ...
. The club played its matches in the Floreslaan stadium.
History
The club entered the
Eerste Divisie
The Eerste Divisie (, en, First Division) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie and with the third-level Tweede Divisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as t ...
in 1956. Fortuna never made it towards the
Eredivisie
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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
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Rinus Gosens
Rinus Gosens (1 January 1920 – 22 May 2008) was a Dutch football player and manager. As a player, he won the Dutch championship with SVV in 1949. After his active career he became a football manager, who worked for Fortuna Vlaardingen, SVV, ...
(1961–64)
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Maarten Vink
Maarten (IPA: �maːrtə(n) is a Dutch language male given name. It is a cognate to and the standardized Dutch form of Martin, as in for example Sint Maarten (named after Martin of Tours).
People with the name
* Geert-Maarten Mol, Dutch One ...
(1964–65)
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Ko Stijger (1965–66)
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Laszlo Zalai (1966–67)
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Jan Brouwer
Jan Brouwer (born 1939/1940) is a Dutch former football manager who was the manager of Angolan side Sagrada Esperança, a position he undertook in April 2008.
He previously managed the Zambia national team in 2001, Petro Atlético in 2004, an ...
(1967–70)
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Piet de Wolf (1970–72)
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Jan van Baaren (1972–75)
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Theo Laseroms
Matheus Wilhelmus Theodorus "Theo" Laseroms (8 March 1940 – 25 April 1991) was a Dutch football defender who made a name for himself when he played for Feijenoord. He gained six caps for the Netherlands national team.
Club career
Laseroms, ...
(1975–79)
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Hans Dorjee (1979–80)
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Martin van Vianen (1980)
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Jan de Gier (1980–81)
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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