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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 |
| Capacity | N/A |
| Chairman |
 Herman Jonker |
| Manager |
Marco van Vugt |
| Coach |
Jack van den Berg
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| League | Derde Divisie |
| 2015-16 | Saturday Hoofdklasse B, 3rd (promoted) |
ASWH is a football club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands, founded in 1929. Since 2016 the club is 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 Amateur Soccer and the Dutch Championship Saturday Soccer.
It has won several national cups: the KNVB Amateur Cup in 2006 and 2014, the District Cup South I in 2006, 2014, 2016, and the Dutch Super Cup for Amateurs in 2005, 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.
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.
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.
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