ASWH

Geschiedenis

ASWH is an association football club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands. The club was founded in 1929. Since 2016 ASWH has been playing in the Saturday Derde Divisie.The club won section championships in 1949, 1959, 1961, 1970, 1883, 1999, 2001, 2002, and 2005, gradually ascending among the Dutch amateur leagues. In 2005 it also won the Dutch Championship of Amateur Soccer and the Dutch Championship of Saturday Soccer.ASWH has won several national cups: the KNVB Amateur Cup in 2006 and 2014, the District Cup South I in 2006, 2014, and 2016, and the Dutch Super Cup for Amateurs in 2005 and 2014. ASWH reached the third round of the 2006–07 KNVB Cup, defeating professional side Cambuur in the second round. In 2016 it reached the eighth finals against AZ Alkmaar.History20th century: Foundation through Hoofdklasse1929–1939: The first decadeThe 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.