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.

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.

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 60 years.

[6] The following players were called up to represent their national teams in international football and received caps during their tenure with AFC DWS: The following is a list of AFC DWS players who have competed in international tournaments, including the FIFA World Cup.