Twente Res.

Early years

In the first half of 2006, FC Twente became the first professional Dutch football club to create a women's section, appointing Mary Kok-Willemsen to set up its women branch. Starting in 2007, the idea was to offer girls and women professional training six days a week and eventually build girls and women's teams. At that time, women's football in the Netherlands was amateur, and most talented female players left for Germany and other countries with professional leagues. In November 2006, the club held a presentation of its women's football department proposal to other amateur clubs and the Netherlands women's national football team coach Vera Pauw.

On 21 January 2007, after holding a players selection trials in two locations (Hengelo and Enschede) attended by 575 players, the club women's section was officially established, consisting of three teams, the senior first team and two youth teams. In March 2007, the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) announced FC Twente as one of the six teams to participate in the inaugural 2007–08 season of the Eredivisie Vrouwen, the professional women's Dutch league.

Eredivisie (2007–2012)

For the first Eredivisie season, coach Kok-Willemsen built a 22 player squad formed with eight players coming from Be Quick '28, two players from the Belgian First Division, and three players from the German Bundesliga.

The club played its first official match on 29 August 2007, also the first-ever Eredivisie game at home at the Arke Stadion in front of 5.500 spectators, losing 2–3 to SC Heerenveen. Despite having a poor 2007–08 league season, finishing in fifth place (out of six teams), the club had a good run in the KNVB Women's Cup (Dutch Cup), winning its first trophy by beating FC Utrecht 3–1 in the final.

The 2008–09 season was difficult, as the team had many injured players during the season, and the club finished the league again in fifth place out of seven teams. In the Dutch Cup, the KNVB decided to take all Eredivisie clubs out of the competition in the Round of 16 to have the professional players prepared for the UEFA Euro 2009 tournament.

In the 2009–10 season, ten draws in 20 league matches meant the team was unable to challenge for the title and finished the league in fourth place out of six teams. It reached the semifinals of the Dutch Cup, where it lost to Ter Leede in a penalty shoot-out after a 3–3 draw.

After ending the first three league seasons in the bottom half of the table, the outcome of the 2010–11 season would prove to be different. The club brought in American players Ashley Nick and Caitlin Farrell, new goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal, and striker Joyce Mijnheer. The team had a strong season, leading the league at the winter break. The team clinched its first title on the last matchday, in a home match at the Grolsch Veste in front of over 7.000 spectators, a 4–1 win over Willem II, ending AZ Alkmaar's three-year championship run. Along with the title, the team qualified for next season's UEFA Champions League. In the Dutch Cup, the team was eliminated in the quarterfinals.

There were changes ahead of the 2011–12 season. Kok-Willemsen took a different role at the club, and John van Miert was appointed as the new coach. The team started league play well, taking all points available from the first four matches and in second place at the winter break, one point behind leaders ADO Den Haag. During that break, van Miert took a different function at the club, and Arjan Veurink became the team's coach. In the second half of the season, ADO Den Haag extended its lead, and Twente finished in second place, 14 points back. The club debut in European competitions in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League came on 28 September 2011 at De Adelaarshorst in Deventer, a 0–2 first leg defeat to Russian champions WFC Rossiyanka in the Round of 32. Twente also lost the second leg to the Russian team, 1–0. The team also reached the Dutch Cup semifinals that season and played the BeNe Super Cup, a match between the Dutch and Belgian league champions, losing 1–4 against Standard Liège.

BeNe League (2012–2015)

In 2012, the BeNe League was created when the Dutch and Belgian domestic leagues merged. With the departures of Ashley Nick, Blakely Mattern, Joyce Mijnheer, and Lorca Van De Putte before the season and Courtney Goodson in the winter break, the team brought in Sherida Spitse and Jill Roord. The 2012–13 BeNe League was played in two stages, the first had a group of eight Dutch teams (BeNe League Orange), and FC Twente topped the group without losing a match. The second stage had the top four teams of the Dutch group and the top four teams from the Belgian group forming a new group (BeNe League A) to play for the championship. Twente won the Dutch championship, awarded to the best Dutch team in the BeNe League, on 10 May 2013, qualifying for Champions League participation the following season. It became the first BeNe League champions on 25 May 2013 in the last round of the season in a straight championship match against Standard Liège, which came into the match one point ahead of FC Twente. At the Grolsch Veste in front of 9.000 spectators, FC Twente came from behind to win the match 3–1. The Tukkers narrowly missed a double, losing the Dutch Cup final on penalties to ADO Den Haag.

The 2013–14 BeNe League season was played with all 15 teams, eight Dutch and seven Belgian, in a single group. Despite many player changes during the season and the removal of FC Utrecht from the league due to bankruptcy in the winter break, the club had a strong league performance, winning the Dutch championship (as best Dutch club in the league) on 16 May 2014 and eventually winning the BeNe League title on 6 June 2014, after a 7–0 win against Club Brugge. The team negotiated well the qualifying round of the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League, winning two and losing one match to reach the Round of 32 where they drew French champions Olympique Lyon, which proved to be too strong, winning both legs by a 10–0 aggregate. The team reached the Dutch Cup semifinal, where it was beaten by Ajax 0–2.