The Florida Strikers were a soccer team based in

Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale () is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and largest city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth ...

. In 1994, they began play in the United States Interregional Soccer League as the Fort Lauderdale Kicks. The next year, with the folding of the

American Professional Soccer League The American Professional Soccer League (APSL) was a professional men's soccer league with teams from the United States and later Canada. It was formed in 1990 by the merger of the third American Soccer League with the Western Soccer League. It ...

Strikers, the Kicks took the name Fort Lauderdale Strikers for themselves. This only lasted one year as the team changed names again, becoming the Florida Strikers before the 1996 season. The team folded in 1997.

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* Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977-1983) * Fort Lauderdale Sun ''Division 2 team of the short-lived USL (1984–85)'' * Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1988-1994) * Miami Fusion ''Now defunct MLS team (1997–2001)'' * Fort Lauderdale Strikers (2006–2016) (formerly Miami FC) ''former Division 2 team which competed in the NASL'' {{Fort Lauderdale Strikers 1994 establishments in Florida 1997 disestablishments in Florida Soccer clubs in Florida Defunct soccer clubs in Florida Association football clubs established in 1994 Association football clubs disestablished in 1997

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