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| Full name | Door Wilskracht Sterk | |
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| Founded | 11 October 1907 (as Fortuna) | |
| Ground | Spieringhorn Amsterdam | |
| League | Tweede Klasse (Sunday) | |
| Website | Club website | |
Amsterdamsche Football Club Door Wilskracht Sterk (English: Amsterdam Football Club Strong Through Willpower), also referred to as AFC DWS, Door Wilskracht Sterk or simply DWS, is a Dutch football club from Amsterdam, currently competing in the Tweede Klasse (English: Second Class), the fifth tier of amateur football in the Netherlands. [1]
AFC DWS was founded on 11 October 1907, by the trio of Robert Beijerbacht, Theo Beijerbacht and Jan van Galen under the name of Fortuna which was soon changed to Hercules. [2] The team played in a blue and white striped shirt and white shorts. On 22 March 1909 the name was changed to DWS and the shirt colours became blue and black vertical stripes. [3]
In 1954 the club entered professional football, playing its home matches in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. It merged in 1958 with BVC Amsterdam into DWS/A. That name was dropped again in 1962 and turned back into DWS. DWS became champions of the Eredivisie in 1964, the same year they were promoted from the Eerste Divisie, which is a feat that has never been repeated. [4] [5] DWS then reached the quarter-finals of the 1964–65 European Cup, in the next season. Their 1964 triumph is the most recent occasion of a club without a predominantly red and white home strip (unlike recent contenders Ajax, AZ, Feyenoord, PSV and Twente) winning the Eredivisie title, a drought of 55 years.
In 1972 the club merged with Blauw-Wit Amsterdam and Volewijckers to form FC Amsterdam. DWS continued as an amateur club, which still exists. They celebrated their 100-year Jubilee in 2007. [6]
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| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Score | UCP (1) |
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| 1964/65 | International Football Cup | Group stage |  Switzerland | FC La Chaux-de-Fonds | 1–2, 1–0 | 0.0 |
 Germany | Eintracht Braunschweig | 4–0, 0–2 | ||||
 Belgium | FC Beringen | 5–0, 3–2 | ||||
| First Round | never played (2) | |||||
| Quarterfinals | Belgium | RFC de Liège | never played (3) | |||
| 1964/65 | European Cup | Qualification |  Turkey | Fenerbahçe SK | 3–1, 1–0 | 10.0 |
| Round of 16 |  Norway | SFK Lyn Oslo | 5–0, 3–1 | |||
| Quarterfinals |  Hungary | Vasas ETO Győr | 1–1, 0–1 | |||
| 1966/67 | International Football Cup | Group stage |  Italy | Atalanta Bergamo | 1–0, 1–0 | 0.0 |
| Switzerland | FC Grenchen | 4–2, 5–3 | ||||
 France | RC Strasbourg | 4–1, 2–1 | ||||
| Quarterfinals |  Poland | Zagłębie Sosnowiec | 2–2, 0–3 | |||
| 1966/67 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | Second round |  England | Leeds United | 1–3, 1–5 | 0.0 |
| 1967/68 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | First round |  Scotland | Dundee | 2–1, 0–3 | 2.0 |
| 1968/69 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | First round | Belgium | Beerschot VAV | 1–1, 2–1 | 5.0 |
| Second round | England | Chelsea | 0–0, 0–0 (k) | |||
| Round of 16 | Scotland | Rangers | 0–2, 1–2 | |||
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