ASWH

ASWH, short for Altijd Sterker Worden Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, is an association football club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands. The club was founded in 1929. Its first squad won ten section championships, one in every decade since 1949, with the exception of three (Dutch third-tier) championships in the 2000s and no championship in the 2010s. In 2005 ASWH also won the Dutch Championship of Amateur Soccer and the Dutch Championship of Saturday Soccer. In 2011, the second squad won the national title for reserve teams. Ascending gradually through the ranks, ASWH played 2019–2022 in the semi-professional Tweede Divisie. Since 2024, the first squad plays in the Derde Divisie. In 2025–26, ASWH operates 77 teams in competitions, a growth of 7 since 2023–24.

ASWH has also been successful in cups: it won 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. In the 2006–07 KNVB Cup, ASWH defeated the professional side Cambuur in the 16th finals, 4–2, before losing 0–5 against Roda JC in the 8th finals. In the 2013–14 KNVB Cup, it lost 4–1 against Ajax in the 16th finals. In the 2016–17 KNVB Cup, ASWH again reached the 8th finals, where it lost 2–0 against AZ Alkmaar. In the 2024–2025 Cup, ASWH lost 0–1 to professional side SC Heerenveen in the 32 clubs round.