Fortuna Sittard
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association football club in the Netherlands
Key facts
- Full name
- Fortuna Sittard
- Nicknames
- Fortuna , Fortunezen , FSC , Fortuna Zitterd
- Founded
- 1 July 1968 ; 57 years ago ( 1968-07-01 )
- Ground
- Fortuna Sittard Stadion
- Capacity
- 12,500
- Owner s
- Principion Holding 20%, Özgür Işıtan Gün 65%, Fortuna Sittard 10%, STAK 5%
- Chairman
- Jos van de Mortel
- Head coach
- Danny Buijs
- League
- Eredivisie
- 2025 26
- Eredivisie, 11th of 18
- Website
- www .fortunasittard .nl
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- association football club
- Official name
- Fortuna Sittard Combinatie
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Sittard-Geleen
- Headquarters
- Sittard
- Sport
- association football
- League
- Eredivisie
- Official website
- www.fortunasittard.nl
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- inception
- 1968-07-01
- short name
- Fortuna Sittard
- location of formation
- Sittard
- home venue
- De Baandert
- topic's main category
- Category:Fortuna Sittard
- Commons category
- Fortuna Sittard
- head coach
- Julio Velázquez
- category for members of a team
- Category:Fortuna Sittard players
- social media followers
- 5260
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Encyclopedic overview
Current season
Fortuna Sittard ( Dutch pronunciation: [fɔrˈtynaː ˈsɪtɑrt]; Limburgish: Fortuna Zitterd [fɔʀˈtyːnaː ˈzɪtəʀt]) is a professional football club from the municipality of Sittard-Geleen, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Fortuna Sittard Stadion and features in the Eredivisie. The club was established through a merger of former clubs Fortuna 54 and Sittardia, which merged as the Fortuna Sittardia Combinatie on 1 July 1968.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fortuna Sittard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.