The Ajax Sportsman Combinatie, usually known as ASC, is a Dutch

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

and

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

club, established in 1918 as a merger of the ''Leidsche Cricket- en Football-Club Ajax'' and ''Leidsche Athletiekvereeniging De Sportsman''.

Ajax

The ''Leidsche Cricket- en Football-Club Ajax'' was established on 1 June 1892, and played its first match in 1895. As the name indicates, the club was originally based in Leiden. The club moved to

Oegstgeest Oegstgeest () is a town and municipality in the province of South Holland in the western Netherlands. Its population was in . Etymology The portion ''geest'' in the name refers to the geest lands, which were excavated in the seventeenth cent ...

in 1917, and was officially registered as an Oegstgeest-based club in 1985. Ajax won its first title in 1899, in the Tweede Klasse, then the second tier of football in the Netherlands. The club didn't lose any of the 12 matches that season, and had a goal difference of 64-6. Key player L. Koolemans-Beijnen was selected for a precursor of the

Netherlands national football team The Netherlands national football team ( nl, Nederlands voetbalelftal or simply ''Het Nederlands elftal'') has represented the Netherlands in international men's football matches since 1905. The men's national team is controlled by the Royal Du ...

. Ajax reached the final of the Dutch cup competition in 1900, losing 3-1 to Velocitas of

Breda Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...

in the final.

Sportsman

''Athletiekvereeniging De Sportman'' was established on August 30, 1896. It was involved in athletics, rowing, shooting, gymnastics, cycling and speed skating.

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Ajax Sportman Combinatie
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