WV-HEDW

WV-HEDW, short for 'Wilhelmina Vooruit Hortus Eendracht Doet Winnen', is a football club in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The club is located at Sportpark Middenmeer. WV-HEDW was formed in 1956 after the merger of two clubs with predominantly Jewish members, namely Wilhelmina Vooruit, founded on 25 May 1908, and HEDW, which was formed in 1931 when Hortus, founded on 18 April 1912, and E.D.W. (Eendracht Doet Winnen, meaning unity leads to victory), founded on 8 November 1913, merged.

In the year 2025, WV-HEDW is a thriving, open and welcoming club with beautiful facilities, a fantastic terrace, and eight football pitches, five of them artificial turf. WV-HEDW has some 2,100 members. This makes the club the second largest of Amsterdam. WV-HEDW will have 112 teams in competition in the 2025–2026 season: 50 senior teams, 32 teams aged 13 or older, and 30 teams under the age of 13. Of these 112 teams, 9 are women's and 17 are girls' teams. When it comes to the number of senior and veteran teams, WV-HEDW is by far the largest in the Netherlands. In the national ranking of best performing youth teams WV-HEDW has risen to the 14th place. The cherry on the cake of the accommodation is the André Lopes Dias Tribune, consisting of two separate parts (Diemen- and Cityside), which was opened in November 2023, along with the unveiling of the photo gallery along the main pitch, which offers a wonderful impression of 115 years of football (and baseball) at Wilhelmina Vooruit, Hortus, EDW, HEDW, and WV-HEDW.