The 1990 Fort Lauderdale Strikers season was the first season of the team in the new American Professional Soccer League. It was the club's twenty-fourth season in professional soccer. In the previous year, the club fielded the team in the American Soccer League which then merged with the Western Soccer Alliance to form the new APSL. In the inaugural year of the new league, the team finished in first place in the South Division of the East (American Soccer League) Conference. They went to the playoffs and made it to the finals of the East (American Soccer League) Conference being that year's Runners-up. At the end of the year, the team would merge with the league's Orlando Lions, creating a new unified team and club.