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| Full name | Altijd Sterker Worden Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht |
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| Founded | 1929-08-01 | ||
| Ground | Schildman Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht |
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| Capacity | N/A | ||
| Chairman |  Herman Jonker |
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| Manager | Marco van Vugt |
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| Coach | Jack van den Berg |
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| League | Hoofdklasse | ||
| 2014-15 | Saturday Hoofdklasse B, 4th |
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ASWH is a football club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands. The club is playing in the Saturday Hoofdklasse B. It won the Hoofdklasse A title in the 2004-05 season. The club would go on to win the national Saturday amateur football title and the national amateur football title. Subsequently, ASWH reached the third round of the KNVB Cup 2006-07, defeating professional side Cambuur in the second round.
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History
1929–1939
The club was founded on August 1, 1929, as ASW, by five youths from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht: Bas van Wingerden (born 1915), Johannes van Wingerden (born 1917), Jan van Nieuwenhuyzen (born 1917), Siem van der Wulp (born 1919) and Harmen Haksteeg (born 1920). The oldest of the five, 14-year-old Bas van Wingerden, became the club's first chairman. He was succeeded by then 16-year-old Harmen Haksteeg in 1936. Haksteeg would remain chairman of the club until 1971.
The origin of the club name is not clear. Some claim it stood for Altijd Sporten Wij (We Always Play Sports), others claim it meant Altijd Sterker Worden (Always Grow Stronger). The club eventually settled on the latter.
The club initially only played away matches, for lack of an own ground. This changed when a local farmer gave the club a pasture in 1936. The first home match was played on May 25, 1936, against ULO Groenendijk. The club sought admission to the Rotterdam district of the Christian Dutch Football Association.
1940–1969
The club was suspended from football competition during World War II after the board had refused to sign an oath of loyalty to the Nazis. Club members had to go in hiding or were deported.
The club was re-established in 1945 in Oostendam. The first title, in the highest division of the Dordrecht district of the Royal Dutch Football Association, was won in 1949, by winning all matches. This posed a problem: the pitch didn't meet the criteria for admission to the league system of the football association. A new ground was found in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, and the club was promoted. An H for Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht was added to the club name, to avoid confusion with another club called ASW. The club played in the Vierde Klasse, without much success.
The club hovered between the Derde Klasse and Vierde Klasse throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
1970–Present
Slowly but steadily, ASWH rose through the ranks, and in 1996 the club was promoted to the Hoofdklasse, the highest tier of amateur football in the Netherlands. The club was relegated two years later, followed by the title in the Eerste Klasse and automatic promotion back to the Hoofdklasse. The club was placed in the Saturday Hoofdklasse B, where it finished in third place.
The next season brought the first Hoofdklasse title in the club's existence. The next season the club won the title, this time in the Saturday Hoofdklasse A. The third Hoofdklasse title was won in 2004–05, this time followed by the national title for Saturday amateurs (defeating IJsselmeervogels and Excelsior '31) and the national amateur title (defeating Argon).
Since Fall 2010 ASWH plays in Hoofdklasse B.
Affiliated people
Players
Most of the players over the years have been Dutch. An occasional foreign player has been on the squad such Lee Cheuk-A-Lam, a keeper from Ghana, who migrated to the Netherlands.
For the Russian player Yuri Petrov, who had been playing in the Netherlands for several years, ASWH was his first soccer home after turning amateur. Stef Doedee is the current goalkeeper of ASWH after a professional career. He has signed with the amateur club until 2016.
Robin Schmidt, Michel Devilee, Jan Scheurwater, and Joshua Brard turned professional subsequent to playing for the Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht side. Marten de Roon later embarked on an international football career.
Among the former captains of the first ASWH squad is Leon van Dalen.
Chairpersons
- Bas van Wingerden (1929–1936)
- Harmen Haksteeg (1936–1971)
- Frans van Son (1971–1979)
- Ger van der Straaten (interim, 1979–1981)
- Kees Zwijnenberg (1981–1886)
- John van Spronsen (1986–1992)
- Cor Scheurwater (1992–1998)
- Leo van den Berg (1998–2002)
- John Middendorp (2002–2014)
- Herman Jonker (2015–Present)[1]
References
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External links
- Official website (Dutch)
