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Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax ( dutch pronunciation : [ ˈaːjɑks ] ), besides known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or just Ajax, is a dutch master football club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Historically, Ajax ( named after the legendary Greek hero ) has been the most successful club in the Netherlands, with 35 Eredivisie titles and 20 KNVB Cups. It has continuously played in the Eredivisie, since the league ‘s origin in 1956 and, along with Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven, it is one of the country ‘s “ big three “ clubs that have dominated that competition.

Ajax is been one of the most successful clubs in the global. According to the IFFHS, Ajax were the seventh-most successful european club of the twentieth hundred and The World’s Club Team of the Year in 1992. [ 4 ] According to German cartridge holder Kicker, Ajax were the second-most successful european club of the twentieth century. The club is one of the five teams that has earned the right to keep the european Cup and to wear a multiple-winner badge ; they won consecutively in 1971–1973. In 1972, they completed the continental treble by winning the Eredivisie, KNVB Cup, and the european Cup. It besides won the beginning ( but not by UEFA ) organized UEFA Super Cup in 1972 against Glasgow Rangers ( played in 1973 ). Ajax ‘s last external trophies were the 1995 Intercontinental Cup, 1995 UEFA Super Cup and the 1995 Champions League, where they defeated Milan in the final ; they lost the 1996 Champions League concluding on penalties to Juventus. In 1995, Ajax was crowned as World Team of the Year by World Soccer magazine. Ajax is besides one of four teams to win the continental soprano and the Intercontinental Cup or Club World Cup in the lapp season/calendar class ; [ 5 ] This was achieved in the 1971–72 season. [ 6 ] Ajax are one of the five clubs to have won all three major UEFA club competitions. [ 7 ] They have besides won the Intercontinental Cup doubly, the 1991–92 UEFA Cup, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as the Karl Rappan Cup, a predecessor of the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1962. [ 8 ] Ajax plays at the Johan Cruyff Arena, which opened as the Amsterdam ArenA in 1996 and was renamed in 2018. They previously played at De Meer Stadion and the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium ( for international matches ) .

history

Ajax was founded in Amsterdam on 18 March 1900. The baseball club achieved promotion to the highest grade of Dutch football in 1911 and had its first major success in 1917, winning the KNVB Beker, the Netherlands ‘ national cup. The following season, Ajax became national champion for the first time. The club defended its title in 1918–19, becoming the merely team to achieve an unbeaten season in the Netherlands Football League Championship. [ 9 ] Throughout the 1920s, Ajax was a strong regional power, winning the Eerste Klasse West division in 1921, 1927 and 1928, but could not maintain its success at national grade. This changed in the 1930s, with the clubhouse winning five national championships ( 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 ), making it the most successful Dutch team of the ten. Ajax won its second KNVB Cup in 1942–43, and an one-eighth Dutch title in 1946–47, the survive season the club was managed by Englishman Jack Reynolds, who, astir to this point, had overseen all of its national backing successes vitamin a well as its 1917 KNVB Cup win. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 1956, the first season of the Netherlands ‘ new professional league, the Eredivisie, was played with Ajax participating as a establish member. The Amsterdam club became the beginning national champions under the new format and made its debut in the european Champion Clubs ‘ Cup the follow year, losing to hungarian champions Vasas SC 6–2 on aggregate at the quarter-final degree. The team were again Eredivisie champions in 1960 and won a third gear KNVB Cup in 1961. [ 12 ]
Johan Cruyff played at Ajax from 1959 to 1973, and from 1981 to 1983, winning 3 European Cups; his No. 14 is the only squad number Ajax has ever retired. Cruyff came back to manage the club from 1985 to 1988. In 1965, Rinus Michels, who had played for the club between 1946 and 1958, was appointed coach of Ajax, implementing his philosophy of Total Football which was to become synonymous with both Ajax and the Netherlands national team. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] A class earlier, Johan Cruyff, who would go on to become the greatest dutch football player of all-time, made his debut. [ 15 ] Between them, Michels and Cruyff led Ajax through the most successful period in its history, winning seven Eredivisie titles, four KNVB Cups and three european Cups. Ajax won the dutch backing in 1966, 1967 and 1968, and reached the 1969 european Cup final, losing to Milan. During the 1966–67 temper, Ajax scored a record 122 goals in an Eredivisie season and besides won the KNVB Cup to achieve its first league and cup double over. In 1969–70, Ajax won a one-fourth Dutch league championship and second base league and cup double in five seasons, winning 27 out of 34 league matches and scoring 100 goals. [ 16 ] The 1970–71 season saw Ajax retain the KNVB Cup and reach the 1971 european Cup concluding, where they defeated Panathinaikos 2–0 with goals from Dick van Dijk and Arie Haan to become continental champions for the first time, with Cruyff being named european Footballer of the Year. After this success, Michels departed to become director of Barcelona and was replaced by the romanian Ștefan Kovács. In Kovács ‘ first season, Ajax completed a treble of the european Cup, the Eredivisie and a third base consecutive KNVB Cup. The follow season, the team beat Argentine club Independiente to win the 1972 Intercontinental Cup and retained their Eredivisie and european Cup titles, becoming the foremost club to win three consecutive european Cups since Real Madrid in the 1950s. In 1973, Michels ‘ Barcelona broke the global transfer record to bring Cruyff to Catalonia. Kovács besides departed to become coach of the France national team, signalling the end of this menstruation of international success. [ 17 ] In 1976–77, Ajax won its first domestic championship in four seasons and recorded a double of the Eredivisie and KNVB Cup two years later. The early 1980s saw the return of Johan Cruyff to the clubhouse, arsenic well as the egress of unseasoned players Marco avant-garde Basten and Frank Rijkaard. The team won back-to-back Eredivisie titles in 1982 and 1983, with all three playing a significant function in the latter. After Cruyff ‘s sale to rivals Feyenoord in 1983, Van Basten became Ajax ‘s key actor, top score in the Eredivisie for four seasons between 1983–84 and 1986–87. [ 18 ]
In 1985, Cruyff returned to Ajax as director and the team ended his first season in charge with 120 goals from 34 matches. however, Ajax still finished as runner-up to PSV by eight points. The surveil season, Ajax again lost out on the Eredivisie entitle to PSV, but won the european Cup Winners ‘ Cup, its first continental trophy in 14 years. After this, Cruyff left the club to become coach of Barcelona and Rijkaard and Van Basten were sold to Sporting CP and Milan respectively. Despite these losses, Ajax reached a second base back-to-back Cup Winners ‘ Cup final in 1988, where they lost to belgian club KV Mechelen. [ 19 ] The 1988–89 season saw Dennis Bergkamp, a young ahead who had beginning appeared under Cruyff in 1986, establish himself as a regular goalscorer for Ajax. Bergkamp helped Ajax to the 1989–90 Eredivisie title and was the top scorer in the class in 1990–91, 1991–92 and 1992–93. Under the management of Louis vanguard Gaal, Ajax won the UEFA Cup in 1992 to become the second golf club, after Juventus, to have won all three major european golf club competitions. [ 20 ] After the sale of Bergkamp to Internazionale in 1993, Van Gaal re-signed the know Frank Rijkaard to complement his young Ajax team featuring academy graduates Frank and Ronald de Boer, Edwin van five hundred Sar, Clarence Seedorf, Edgar Davids, Michael Reiziger and Winston Bogarde, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as mercurial alien talents Finidi George, Nwankwo Kanu and Jari Litmanen, and veteran captain Danny Blind. [ 21 ] The team regained the dutch championship in 1993–94, and won it again in 1994–95 and 1995–96 to become the first Ajax side to win three back-to-back championships since 1968. The stature of Van Gaal ‘s achiever came in 1994–95, where Ajax became the foremost, and to date only, team to complete an integral Eredivisie season unbeaten. [ 22 ] The team besides won its first european Cup since its glorious 1970s era, defeating Milan in the 1995 UEFA Champions League final 1–0, with the winning finish scored by 18-year-old Patrick Kluivert. Ajax again reached the final one year former, but were defeated on penalties by Juventus. Ajax ‘s return as a european force was ephemeral, as Van Gaal and respective members of the team soon departed to some of the celibate ‘s biggest golf club. The 2000s was a lean decade for the club, with alone two Eredivisie championships won. however, Ajax ‘s academy continued to produce headliner players such as Wesley Sneijder and Rafael van five hundred Vaart. In 2010, Frank de Boer was appointed coach of Ajax and led the club to its first league style in seven years, and record 30th title overall, in the 2010–11 season. This was followed by back-to-back wins in 2011–12 and 2012–13 to match his three back-to-back titles as a musician in the 1990s. In 2013–14, Ajax were again Eredivisie champions, winning four back-to-back league titles for the first gear clock time in club history. [ 23 ] After finishing as runner-up to PSV in both 2014–15 and 2015–16, De Boer resigned as Ajax head passenger car in May 2016. [ 24 ] Peter Bosz took over the club and led them to the 2017 UEFA Europa League final examination, their first european final examination in 21 years. They lost to Manchester United with a lineup that was the youngest always in a european final, averaging an historic period of 22 years and 282 days. [ 25 ] For the third consecutive temper, they finished runner-up in the Eredivisie, this time to Feyenoord. The 2018–19 season for Ajax involved a noteworthy run in the UEFA Champions League. Due to their runner-up ending in the 2017–18 Eredivisie, Ajax entered the tournament in the irregular qualify turn. After consecutive victories against Sturm Graz, Standard Liège and Dynamo Kyiv, they qualified for the group stage. Ajax was drawn in a group with german champions Bayern Munich, Portuguese side Benfica and Greek champions AEK Athens. Ajax finished runner-up in this group, qualifying for the hard stages, where they were drawn against three-time fight champions Real Madrid. After losing 1–2 in the first gear leg, they defeated Real Madrid 4–1 in the away match, stunning the defending champions in their own stadium, the Santiago Bernabéu, with an aggregate seduce of 5–3. [ 26 ] Dušan Tadić was awarded a perfect score of 10 by L’Équipe following the match. [ 27 ] thus, Ajax progressed to quarter-finals and were drawn with italian champions Juventus. In the first base leg in the Johan Cruyff Arena, they drew 1–1. In the second leg at the Juventus Stadium, Ajax came from behind to win 2–1 and 3–2 on aggregate. Matthijs de Ligt scored the succeed goal for Ajax to help the team overture to its first Champions League semi-final since 1997. [ 28 ] There, they would face English side Tottenham Hotspur. In the first leg of the semi-final, Ajax beat Tottenham 1–0 away from home. [ 29 ] In the second leg, Ajax scored doubly in the first half to generate a 3–0 lead on aggregate. however, in the second gear one-half, Lucas Moura scored three times, including in the 6th minute of add time, resulting in Ajax losing via the away goals convention. [ 30 ] Ajax were in first gear plaza on finish difference when the 2019–20 Eredivisie was declared invalidate, preventing them being dutch champions for the thirty-fifth clock time, but still qualified for the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League. [ 31 ]

UEFA ranking

As of 18 March 2021[32]

Academies ( Youth/Coaching )

The cabaret is besides particularly celebrated for its celebrated youth program that has produced many dutch talents over the years – Johan Cruyff, Edwin van five hundred Sar, Gerald Vanenburg, Frank Rijkaard, Dennis Bergkamp, Rafael van five hundred Vaart, Patrick Kluivert, Marco avant-garde Basten, Wesley Sneijder, Maarten Stekelenburg, Nigel de Jong, Frenkie de Jong, and Matthijs de Ligt have come through the ranks and are just some of the talents who have played for Ajax. Ajax besides regularly supplies the dutch national youth teams with local talent. ascribable to common agreements with extraneous clubs, the youth academy has besides signed foreign players as teenagers before making beginning team debuts, such as belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen along with winger Tom De Mul, all of whom are entire internationals, a well as Dutch international Vurnon Anita and Javier Martina, representing Curaçao. Ajax has besides expanded its endowment searching broadcast to South Africa with Ajax Cape Town. Ajax Cape Town was set up with the help of Rob Moore. Ajax has besides had a satellite club in the United States under the name Ajax America, until it filed for bankruptcy. There are some young person players from Ajax Cape Town that have been drafted into the Eredivisie squad, such as south african internationals Steven Pienaar, Thulani Serero and Cameroonian international Eyong Enoh. In 1995, the year Ajax won the UEFA Champions League, the Netherlands national team was about entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin vanguard five hundred Sar in goal ; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer and Danny Blind in refutation ; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids and Clarence Seedorf in midfield ; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack. [ 33 ] In 2011, Ajax opened its first young academies outside the Netherlands when the club partnered up with George Kazianis and All Star Consultancy in Greece to open the Ajax Hellas Youth Academy. The offices are based in Nea Smyrni, Attica, with the main train facility located on the island of Corfu, hosting a sum of 15 football youth academies throughout Greece and Cyprus. Eddie vanguard Schaik heads the organization as coach and adviser, introducing the Ajax football philosophy at the versatile Greek football discipline camps. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] In 2016, Ajax launched the ACA ( Ajax Coaching Academy ) with the purpose of sharing cognition, setting up a diverseness of camps and clinics for both players and coaches. [ 36 ]

Stadiums

Ajax ‘s first stadium was built in 1911 out of wood and was called Het Houten Stadion ( “ The Wooden Stadium ” ). Ajax belated played in the Olympic Stadium built for the 1928 Summer Olympics hosted in Amsterdam. This stadium, designed by Jan Wils, is known as the Olympic Stadium. In 1934, Ajax moved to De Meer Stadion in east Amsterdam, designed by architect and Ajax-member Daan Roodenburgh, who had besides designed the clubhouse ‘s first base stadium. It could accommodate 29,500 spectators and Ajax continued to play there until 1996. For big european and national fixtures the club would frequently play at the Olympic Stadium, which could accommodate about twice the number of spectators. In 1996, Ajax moved to a new home prime in the southeast of the city known as the Amsterdam Arena, since 2018 know as the Johan Cruyff Arena. This stadium was built by the Amsterdam city authority at a monetary value of $ 134 million. The stadium is capable of holding approximately 54,990 spectators. The median attendance in 2006–07 was 48,610, rising in the next season to 49,128. The Arena has a retractable roof and set a vogue for other modern stadiums built in Europe in the follow years. In the Netherlands, the Arena has earned a reputation for a awful grass pitch caused by the obliterable ceiling that, even when candid, takes aside excessively much sunlight and fresh air out. During the 2008–09 season, labor staff introduced an artificial lighting system that has last reduced this problem well. The much-loved De Meer Stadion was torn gloomy and the down was sold to the city council. A residential neighborhood now occupies the area. The only thing leave of the old stadium are the letters “ AJAX ”, which nowadays is in seat on the façade of the youth training grounds De Toekomst, near the Johan Cruyff Arena .

Crest and colours

crest

In 1900, when the clubhouse was founded, the emblem of Ajax was equitable a picture of an Ajax player. The crest was slightly altered following the baseball club ‘s forwarding to the clear division in 1911 to match the clubhouse ‘s new outfits. In 1928, the baseball club logo was introduced with the head of the greek hero Ajax. The logo was once again changed in 1990 into an pilfer version of the former one. The new logo still sports the portrayal of Ajax, but drawn with just 11 lines, symbolizing the 11 players of a football team. [ 37 ]

Colours

Ajax primitively played in an all-black consistent with a crimson girdle tied around the players ‘ waists, but that undifferentiated was soon replaced by a red/white striped shirt and black shorts. Red, black and blank are the three colours of the flag of Amsterdam. When under coach Jack Kirwan, however, the club earned promotion to the top escape of Dutch football for the first gear meter in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ‘First Class ‘, late named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had precisely the same equip. extra kits for away fixtures did not exist at the clock time and according to football association regulations the newcomers had to change their colours if two teams in the lapp league had identical uniforms. Ajax opted for white shorts and flannel shirt with a broad, erect red stripe over chest of drawers and back, which placid is Ajax ‘s outfit .

fiscal

AFC Ajax N.V .

AFC Ajax are the only Dutch club with an initial populace offer ( IPO ). The club is registered as a Naamloze vennootschap ( N.V. ) listed on the stock exchange Euronext Amsterdam, since 17 May 1998. With a launch price of ƒ25, – ( Guilders ) the club managed to a bring their entire gross up to €54 million ( converted ) in their first year on the market. [ 38 ] After ephemeral success, however, the rate dropped, at one point ampere low as €3.50. criticism was brought away that the legal grid for a naamloze vennootschap would not be suitable for a Football club, and that the sports associate ambitions would suffer from the fresh commercial interests of the now listed Ajax. Shares of the party in the year 2008 were valued at approximately €5.90 per contribution. [ 39 ] In 2008, a Commission under guidance of honorary extremity Uri Coronel concluded that the IPO was of no value to the club, and that measures should be taken to exit the lineage central by purchasing back all populace shares. [ 40 ] Ajax remain on the stock exchange. [ 41 ]

2011 AFC Ajax team wearing their home kit by adidas with the AEGON sponsor across the chest, ahead of their UEFA Champions League meet against Olympique Lyonnais. Ajax ‘s shirts have been sponsored by TDK from 1982 to 1991, and by ABN AMRO from 1991 to 2008. AEGON then replaced ABN AMRO as the new head patron for a period of seven years. [ 42 ] On 1 April 2007, Ajax wore a different presenter for the match against Heracles Almelo, Florius. Florius is a bank program launched by ABN AMRO who wanted it to be the shirt sponsor for one match. The shirts have been manufactured by Le Coq Sportif ( 1973–1977 ), Puma ( 1977–1979 ), [ 43 ] Cor du Buy ( 1979-1980 ), Le Coq Sportif ( 1980–1984 ), [ 44 ] Kappa ( 1985–1989 ) [ 45 ] and Umbro ( 1989–2000 ) in the past, and by Adidas since 2000 ( until at least 2025 ). [ 46 ] [ 47 ] At the conclusion of the 2013–14 season, Ajax won the Football shirt of the Year prize for their black and rose colored away shirt by Adidas. The annual award was presented by Subside Sports, which had previously given the award to Internazionale, Juventus and the Belgium national team. It was Ajax ‘s first time winning the award. [ 48 ] On 7 November 2014, it was announced that Ajax had agreed to a four-and-a-half-year contract worth €8 million annually with Dutch cable operating company Ziggo as the fresh shirt patronize for the cabaret. [ 49 ] Having extended their narrow with AEGON for half a season until December, the club featured Fonds Gehandicaptensport, a charitable store for disabled sports on its away shirts for a six-month period before transitioning to Ziggo in 2015. [ 50 ]

Kit deals

Kit Supplier
Period
Contract
announcement
Contract
duration
Value
Notes

Adidas

2000–present[51]

13 July 2018[51]

1 July 2019 – 30 June 2025[51]
€50 million for six years[52]

other teams

Reserves team

Jong Ajax ( formerly more commonly known as Ajax 2 ) is the reserve team of AFC Ajax. The team is composed by and large of professional footballers, who are often late graduates from the highest youth level ( Ajax A1 ) serving their first master contract as a reserve, or players who are otherwise unable to play in the first team. [ 53 ] Since 1992, Jong Ajax competed in the Beloften Eredivisie, competing against other substitute teams such as Jong PSV, Jong FC Groningen or Jong AZ. They have won the Beloften Eredivisie title a record eight times, adenine well as the KNVB Reserve Cup three times, making them the most successful reservation police squad in the Netherlands. By winning the Beloften Eredivisie style, Jong Ajax were able to qualify for the actual KNVB Cup, even advancing to the semi-finals on three occasions. Their best solution in the dutch Cup was under coach Jan Olde Riekerink in 2001–02, when a semi-final loss to Utrecht in a Penalty shoot-out after extra time, which saw Utrecht advance, and therefore preventing an Ajax–Jong Ajax Dutch Cup final. [ 54 ] The 2013–14 season marked the Jupiler League debut of the Ajax reserves ‘ police squad, Jong Ajax. [ 55 ] previously playing in the Beloften Eredivisie ( a separate league for allow teams, not included in the dutch professional or amateurish league structure ), players were allowed to move around freely between the reserve team and the beginning team during the season. [ 56 ] This is no long the event as Jong Ajax immediately registers and fields a separate team from that of Ajax first team for the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of professional football in the Netherlands. Their home matches are played at Sportpark De Toekomst, except for the casual peer in the Johan Cruyff Arena. now regarded a semi-professional team in their own obedience, the lone time period in which players are able to move between squads are during the transmit windows, unless the musician has made less than 15 appearances for the first team, then he is inactive eligible to appear in both first team and second team matches during the season. [ 57 ] Furthermore, the team is not eligible for promotion to the Eredivisie or to participate in the KNVB Cup. Jong Ajax were joined in the Eerste Divisie by Jong Twente and Jong PSV, substitute teams who have besides moved from the Beloften Eredivisie to the Eerste Divisie, in place of VV Katwijk, SC Veendam and AGOVV Apeldoorn, increasing the total number of teams in the Jupiler League from 18 to 20. [ 58 ] Ajax reservation police squad Jong Ajax left the Beloften Eredivisie in 2013, having held a 21-year tenure in the reserves league, having besides won the league entitle a record eight times ( 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2009 ). [ 59 ]

Amateur team

AFC Ajax Amateurs, well known as Ajax Zaterdag, is a dutch amateur football club founded 18 March 1900. It is the amateurish team of the professional golf club AFC Ajax, who play their base matches at the Sportpark De Toekomst training grounds to a capacity of 5,000. The team was promoted from the Eerste Klasse to the Hoofdklasse ahead of the 2011–12 season, the league in which they are presently competing. The team has won the Eerste Klasse style twice, equally well as the * KNVB District Cup West I on two occasions as well. [ 60 ] furthermore, Ajax Zaterdag have besides managed to qualify for the KNVB Cup on their own accord on three occasions, namely in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2021. even advancing to the second round before bowing out to Vitesse on 24 September 2008 .

Women ‘s team

AFC Ajax Vrouwen ( English: AFC Ajax Women ) are the women ‘s team of AFC Ajax, competing in the women ‘s eredivisie, the highest level of women ‘s football in the Netherlands. Founded on 18 May 2012, the women ‘s team saw Ajax attracting many of the Netherlands top talents, with International players such as Anouk Hoogendijk, Daphne Koster and Petra Hogewoning joining the Amsterdam club in its maid season in women ‘s professional football. [ 61 ] The team won their first man of silverware when the defeated PSV/FC Eindhoven 2–1 in the final of the KNVB Women ‘s Cup .

other sports

baseball

Ajax HVA ( 1922–1972 ) was the baseball team of AFC Ajax founded in 1922, and competed as founding members of the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, the circus tent flight of professional baseball in the Netherlands. [ 62 ] Ajax won the home baseball title a total of four times ( 1924, 1928, 1942, 1948 ) before the clubhouse opted to no long playing field a baseball team, and to focus entirely on football in 1972. [ 63 ] Ajax spent a sum of 50 years at the top flight of Baseball in the Netherlands from 1922 to 1972. The dissolution of Ajax baseball cabaret resulted in the players finding a newfangled presenter in a mustard fabrication company called Luycks, while merging with the Diemen Giants to become the Luycks Giants, thus replacing both former clubs. [ 64 ]

eSports

In 2016, Ajax launched an eSports team, with Koen Weijland as the club ‘s first bless, making their debut on the Global stage of professional gambling. They have since signed the likes of Dani Hagebeuk, Lev Vinken, Joey Calabro and Bob van Uden, the latter spent his first season on loan to the eSports team of japanese club Sagan Tosu. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] [ 67 ]

Affiliated clubs

The following clubs are presently affiliated with AFC Ajax :
The follow clubs were affiliated with AFC Ajax in the past :

Rivalries

As one of the traditional big three clubs in the Netherlands, Ajax have amassed a number of intense rivalries over the years. Listed below are the most significant of the rivalries involving Ajax.

competition with Feyenoord

Feyenoord from Rotterdam are Ajax ‘s archrivals. Every year both clubs play the De Klassieker ( “ The Classic ” ), a catch between the teams from the two largest cities of the Netherlands. [ 88 ] During the 1970s, Ajax and Feyenoord were the alone two clubs in the Netherlands who were able to clinch national titles, angstrom well as achieve continental and even ball-shaped achiever. [ 89 ] A confluence between the two clubs became the measuring stick for who was rightfully the best club in the Netherlands. The Klassieker is the most celebrated of all the rivalries in the Netherlands and the matches are constantly sold out. [ 90 ] The fastness is seen in the public eye as “ the elegant and elegant football of Ajax, against the indomitable fighting emotional state of Feyenoord ” ; the confidence of the capital city versus the blasphemous choker mentality of Rotterdam. [ 91 ] Matches are known for their tension and violence, both on and off the pitch. Over the years, several violent incidents have taken home involving rival supporters, leading to the stream prohibition of away supporters in both stadiums. [ 92 ] The lowest steer was reached on 23 March 1997, when supporters of both clubs met on a airfield near Beverwijk, where Ajax-supporter Carlo Picornie was fatally injured, the incidental is normally referred to as the “ Battle of Beverwijk “. [ 93 ]

competition with PSV

PSV are besides a rival of Ajax, but in terms of tension and competition, these matches are not vitamin a loaded as the duels with Feyenoord. The competition has existed for some time with PSV and stems from diverse causes, such as the unlike interpretations of whether current national and international successes of both clubs correlates and the supposed confrontation between the Randstad and the province. The matches between these two teams is normally referred to as “ De Topper ” ( “ The Topper ” ), and involves the two most trophy-laden sides in Dutch football and is basically a clang of two competing schools of think in Dutch football. Historically, PSV compete with a workmanlike ethic, preferring a more full-bodied 4–3–1–2 or 4–2–3–1, typically shunning the frivolous 4–3–3 approach favoured in Amsterdam. While Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff helped to innovate Total Football in the sixties and seventies, a different philosophy was honed in Eindhoven by Kees Rijvers and Guus Hiddink in the deep 1970s and ’80s. [ 94 ] This in turn has created one of the more philosophic rivalries in football, an ideological battlefield, which is gradually becoming as heated and acute as the matches Ajax and Feyenoord partake in. [ 95 ]

Rivalries with other clubs

aside from Feyenoord and PSV, Ajax have several other rivalries, although in most cases the sentiment is largely felt by the opposition and is more steer towards Ajax, with one of them being Utrecht. [ 96 ] Although the competition is more felt on the Utrecht english then with Ajax, match-up between the two sides are much quite intense. [ 97 ] Both teams have fanatic supporters, and clashes off the pitch are more much the govern than the exception. The same goes for ADO Den Haag, with both assistant groups frequently getting in conflicts, when ADO-Hooligans set fire to the supporters home of Ajax, and Ajax hooligans subsequently broke into the Supporters home of ADO tensions between the two clubs rose. In 2006, supporters from both clubs were banned from attending away matches for five years due to frequent violent outbreaks and clashes. [ 98 ] farther teams who share a competition with Ajax include Twente, Vitesse Arnhem, Groningen and AZ, although the latter is frequently regarded by Ajax supporters as the clubhouse ‘s “ little buddy ”. [ 99 ] With AZ being from nearby Alkmaar and consequently situated in the like province as Ajax, match-up between the two sides are normally known as the “ De Noord-Hollandse Derby ” ( “ North Holland Derby ” ) and are often very competitive, intense and loaded fixtures. [ 100 ] past rivalries include local Amsterdam derbies between Ajax and clubs such as Blauw-Wit, DWS and De Volewijckers ( which later merged to become FC Amsterdam in 1972 ). [ 101 ] however, the tension between the local sides lessened as the division of the clubs through play in unlike leagues over clock time became greater. Years of not competing in the same league resulted in less frequent match-ups, until tensions finally settled between the Amsterdam clubs. [ 102 ] The last Amsterdam bowler hat to take place in an official league equal was when Ajax defeated FC Amsterdam 5–1 on 19 March 1978. [ 103 ]

Supporters

Ajax supporters Ajax are known for having fanatic core supporter-groups, of which F-Side and VAK410 are the most celebrated. F-Side were founded on 3 October 1976, and are situated right behind the goal in the Johan Cruyff Arena, on the southerly end of the stadium in rows 125–129. Their diagnose is derived from the group ‘s early location on the F-side of the old De Meer Stadion. [ 104 ] The F-side supporters are responsible for a bad part of the atmosphere in the stadium, but are besides known for rioting during and after matches. If in any match Ajax should win the mint toss, the moment half of the pit Ajax always play towards the south-end of the stadium. [ 105 ] VAK410 ( english : Row 410 ) were founded in 2001 and are situated in the Zuidhoek ( South corner ) of the stadium on the upper berth ring in rows 424–425. The group was in the first place situated on the North-West side of the stadium in row 410, from where it derives its name, until relocating to their current place in the stands in 2008. [ 106 ] Members of VAK410 are known to perform diverse stunts, which include massive banners, to enhance the atmosphere in the stadium. Neither F-Side or VAK410 have seats in their sections of the stadium, and both groups stand for the duration of the match. [ 107 ] Through the official Football Top 20 of Dutch sports research group SPORT+MARKT, it was revealed in 2010 that Ajax had approximately 7.1 million supporters throughout Europe. [ 108 ] This is significantly more than rivals Feyenoord and PSV ( each 1.6 and 1.3 million, respectively ), which puts Ajax as the golf club with the 15th-most supporters across Europe. The study besides revealed that approximately 39 % of the Netherlands were Ajax supporters. [ 109 ] not merely does Ajax have many supporters, but several fans attend their matches in european rival, with an average attendance of 48,677 spectators for every international match Ajax played, putting the team at 12th place in Europe for highest attendance, ahead of high-profile clubs such as Milan and Chelsea. It is noteworthy that not all stadiums share the capacitance of the Johan Cruyff Arena. [ 110 ]

Supporters clubs

Ajax supporters celebrating the club ‘s thirtieth Dutch national championship in 2011 The Supporters Club Ajax ( dutch : Supportersvereniging Ajax ) is formally the largest supporters club in the Netherlands with 94,000 members. [ 111 ] Founded on 7 May 1992, the supporters club organize boastfully monthly events throughout the Netherlands, and particularly around the official Ajax Open Training Day, which attracts thousands of supporters each year. [ 112 ] Furthermore, the supporters group is responsible for the Ajax Life web site, vitamin a well as the fanzine which is issued 20 times a class. [ 113 ] In 2006, the AFCA Supportersclub was introduced as the club ‘s second base official supporters ‘ association, through the fusion of the Onafhankelijke Fanclub Ajax ( OFA ) and the Ajax Supporters Delegatie ( ASD ). [ 114 ] The AFCA Supportersclub has a reported 42,000 members, adenine well as a early member on the Board of Administration of Ajax, in Ronald Pieloor. [ 115 ] The third official supporters club is the Ajax Business Associates ( ABA ). Founded in 1991 the ABA is the Business golf club of Ajax. Members occupy the skyboxes in the stadium and can make use of the clubs ‘ amenities and luxury suites including the ABA baseball club and sofa. [ 116 ] The ABA is besides creditworthy for hosting the annual Ajax Business Golf Trophy, an amateurish golf tournament where several active and former Ajax players, arsenic well as big people and members of the ABA, enter. [ 117 ]

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jewish connection

historically, Ajax was popularly seen as having “ jewish roots ”. While it had fewer jewish players than WV-HEDW, Ajax has had a jewish effigy since the 1930s when the home stadium was located future to a jewish vicinity of Amsterdam-Oost and opponents saw many supporters walking through the Nieuwmarkt/Waterloopleinbuurt ( de Jodenhoek—the “ Jews ‘ corner ” ) to get to the stadium. [ 118 ] The city of Amsterdam was historically referred to as a Mokum city, Mokum ( מקום ) being the yiddish word for “ put ” or “ condom haven ”, [ 119 ] and as anti-semitic chants and diagnose calling developed and intensified at the erstwhile De Meer Stadion from torment supporters of opposing clubs, Ajax fans ( few of whom are actually jewish [ 120 ] ) responded by embracing Ajax ‘s “ jewish ” identity : calling themselves “ super Jews ”, chanting “ Jews, Jews ” ( “ Joden, Joden ” ) at games, and adopting jewish symbols such as the Star of David and the israeli flag. [ 120 ] [ 121 ] This jewish imagination finally became a central separate of Ajax fans ‘ culture. [ 121 ] At one point ringtones of “ Hava Nagila “, a Hebrew folk music song, could be downloaded from the club ‘s official web site. [ 120 ] Beginning in the 1980s, fans of Ajax ‘s rivals escalated their anti-semitic palaver, chanting slogans like “ Hamas, Hamas/Jews to the gas “ ( “ Hamas, hamas, joden aan heated gas ” ), hissing to imitate the stream of gas, giving nazi salutes, and early things. [ 120 ] [ 122 ] The eventual leave was that many ( authentically ) jewish Ajax fans stopped going to games. [ 120 ] In the 2000s, the clubhouse began trying to persuade fans to drop their jewish persona. [ 123 ] In 2013, a documentary titled Superjews was released by NTR and Viewpoint Productions which premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ( IDFA ). The movie was directed by Nirit Peled, an israeli surviving in Amsterdam, and an independent film manufacturer who offers a very personal opinion into the game, the lore of Ajax and its relation to Judaism from both the supporters arsenic well as from a jewish perspective. [ 124 ]

Players

stream police squad

As of 4 September 2021[125]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Players out on loan

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

retire numbers

The iconic number 14, retired in 2007 to honor Johan Cruyff

• 14 – Johan Cruyff (Forward, 1964–73, 1981–83). Number retired on 25 April 2007 at Cruyff’s 60th birthday celebration match.[126]

[ note 1 ] Notes :

1. ^[127] but the number is not officially retired. Number 34 has not been reissued since Abdelhak Nouri ( who played for Ajax in 2015–17 ) suffered extreme point cardiac cardiac arrhythmia in a friendly match against Werder Bremen but the number is not formally retired .

mascot

• Lucky Lynx, is the official team mascot.[128] (2000–present)

Youth/reserves squad

For the reserve squad of Ajax see: Jong Ajax.

luminary early players

For a list of all Ajax players with a Wikipedia article, see category : AFC Ajax players

Board and staff

Current board

Executive Board

• Chairman:
  • Board members: 6 – (

Frank de Boer led the club to four consecutive national titles during his tenure as coach (2010–2016)

Board of directors

Supervisory Board

current staff

Coaching staff

Medical staff

• Team doctor:
• Team doctor:
• Physiotherapist:
• Physiotherapist:
• Physiotherapist:
• Fitness coach / Recovery trainer:

Accompanying staff

• Team manager:
• Players supervisor:
• Performance coach:
• Press officer:

number of Ajax chairmen

list of Ajax coaches

Honours

official trophies ( recognized by UEFA and FIFA )

National

• Netherlands Football League Championship / Eredivisie: 35

• KNVB Cup: 20

• Johan Cruyff Shield: 9

european

several of Ajax ‘ external trophies

• UEFA Cup: 1

• UEFA Super Cup: 2

1973, 1995[6][130] *(Ajax also won in 1972, however, UEFA only sanctioned the UEFA Super Cup for the first time in 1973 so the 1972 edition was an unofficial one. Played against Rangers, winners of the 1971–72 European Cup Winners’ Cup, it actually went ahead as ‘a celebration of the Centenary of Rangers F.C.’ (See below) because Rangers were serving a one-year ban at the time imposed by UEFA for the misbehaviour of their fans. That victory meant Ajax had won every tournament (5 in total) they entered that year, a feat Celtic achieved in 1967 (with 6 trophies), Barcelona in 2009 (6 trophies), and Bayern in 2020 (also 6 trophies).

• Karl Rappan Cup: 1

Worldwide

• Intercontinental Cup: 2

other trophies

Ajax have won numerous friendly tournaments, unsanctioned by UEFA or FIFA, including the Amsterdam Tournament, Bruges Matins Trophy, Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu, Eusébio Cup, Ted Bates Trophy, Jalkapalloturnaus and Chippie Polar Cup. ( For a complete list, see main article )

club Awards

• World Soccer World Team of the Year : 1

1995

• France Football European Team of the Year : 4

1969, 1971, 1972, 1973

• Dutch Sports Team of the Year : 5

• Sports Team of the Year : 1

1990

• Dick van Rijn Trophy : 1

1995

• Amsterdam Sportsteam of the year: 3

• ING Fair Play Award : 2

• Fair Play Cup : 1

1995

• FIFA Club of the Century : shared 5th place

20th Century

• kicker Sportmagazin Club of the Century: 2nd place

20th Century

• Best Dutch club after 50 years of professional football : 1

• Football shirt of the Year : Ajax away shirt by adidas

• The Four-Four-Two Greatest Club Side Ever : Ajax (1965–1973)

• VVCS Best Pitch of the Year : 1

2012

Honorary club members

Ajax have a sum of 45 honorary club members, from people who have been invested within the club ‘s administrative engagements, to commit players who have excelled in the acrobatic department. Of those 45 members 40 have since died. Five members still remain, having been reduced from eight members after Piet Keizer renounced his membership, seven after the passing of Johan Cruyff and six after the run of Uri Coronel. [ 138 ]
The remaining 40 honorary members who have since died : [ 139 ]

Results

domestic results

Below is a board with Ajax ‘s domestic results since the insertion of the Eredivisie in 1956 .

Continental results

team records

• Most match appearances: 463 – Sjaak Swart
• Most goals scored: 273 – Piet van Reenen
• Most goals scored in a season: 41 – Henk Groot
• First Ajax player to receive an International cap: Gerard Fortgens for the Netherlands in 1911
• First Ajax player to score a goal for the national team: Theo Brokmann for the Netherlands in 1919

Club van 100

The Club van 100 is the official list of Football players who have appeared in one hundred or more official matches for AFC Ajax. The club presently has a entire of over 150 members. [ 140 ] The record for league appearances is held by Mr. Ajax himself Sjaak Swart, who appeared in 463 league matches for Ajax. [ 141 ] There is a beneficiary team called Lucky Ajax, which was initiated by Sjaak Swart. Lucky Ajax participate in at least one match a year, normally in the name of jacob’s ladder, and normally at football ceremonies to bid farewell to retiring players. One of the prerequisites for playing on Lucky Ajax, which is invitational only, is that you are a member of the Club avant-garde 100, having made at least 100 official couple appearances for Ajax in the first team of the cabaret. [ 142 ]

golden Ajax

golden Ajax are a beneficiary team that was initiated by Sjaak Swart in the seventies, competing in at least one peer a class, normally in the name of jacob’s ladder and/or to bid farewell to retiring former Ajax players. The team is made up of respective members of the Club van 100 of Ajax who will come out of retirement for this match to face the Ajax team that is stream of that year. [ 143 ] Past participants have included Barry Hulshoff, Sonny Silooy, Simon Tahamata, Ronald Koeman, Tscheu La Ling, Gerrie Mühren, John van ‘t Schip, Brian Roy, Stanley Menzo, Peter avant-garde Vossen and Fred Grim. [ 144 ] The name Lucky Ajax is derived from the celebrated “ lucky Ajax ” nickname from how people used to refer to the club when Ajax would either win a peer by opportunity, by a decision of a referee, or by coincidence such as was said to be the case during the ill-famed Mistwedstrijd ( “ Fog Match ” ). [ 145 ]

Number 14 shirt

As of the 2007–08 season, no actor could wear the number 14 shirt at Ajax after the cabaret decided to retire the shirt out of esteem for Johan Cruyff, [ 146 ] “ the legendary count fourteen ”. [ 147 ] Cruyff himself laughed off the protection, saying the club had to let its best actor play with number 14. [ 148 ] spanish midfielder Roger was the last musician to wear the number. Marvin Zeegelaar wore the shirt number In planning for the 2011–12 season in one preseason pit, while Aras Özbiliz wore the number 14 shirt in one pre-season match ahead of the 2011–12 season ampere good. The club stated that this was, in fact, not done in error. [ 149 ] Below is a list of all players to wear the number 14 shirt since Johan Cruyff ‘s departure. [ 150 ]

early captains

team tournaments

Amsterdam Tournament

Established in 1975 as the Amsterdam 700 Tournament to celebrate 700 years of history in the city. [ 170 ] The tournament was hosted annually each summer by Ajax until 1992, when the final version of the original tournament was played. It returned in 1999 with the back of the International Event Partnership ( IEP ). [ 171 ] Four teams participated in the rival, played in a league format since 1986. [ 170 ] Since its rejoinder, [ 172 ] the tournament used an strange point scoring system. As with most league competitions, three points were awarded for a winnings, one for a draw, and none for a passing. An extra point, however, was awarded for each finish scored. [ 173 ] The system was designed to reward teams that adopted a more assail vogue of play. [ 174 ] Each entrant played two matches, with the winner being the club that finished at the peak of the table. [ 175 ] The master competition was held at De Meer Stadion, Ajax ‘s home between 1934 and 1996. [ 176 ] The Amsterdam Arena ( nowadays Johan Cruyff Arena ) played host to the consequence since its return until the last version was played in 2009. Ajax is the most successful team of the tournament, having won it a record ten times, while Benfica from Portugal were the last team to win the tournament, in 2009 .

Copa Amsterdam

Established in 2005, the Copa Amsterdam is an international friendly football tournament for Under-19 youth teams, that is organized by Ajax and the Amsterdam city council, which takes stead at the Olympic Stadium as part of the annual Amsterdam Sports Weekend, a citywide sponsored first step to promote ‘sports and diversion ‘ within the city of Amsterdam. [ 177 ] Each Summer the city of Amsterdam and Ajax invite U-19 teams from assorted top club from around the World to participate in the tournament. Seven teams are invited and play in the rival every year. Over the years, clubs such as Barcelona, Juventus, Chelsea and Real Madrid have had their senior young person teams participate in the tournament. [ 178 ] Cruzeiro from Brazil are the most successful club in the history of the tournament, having won it three times in full .

future Cup

Established in 2010, the AEGON Future Cup is an external friendly tournament for Under-17 young person teams, which is organized by AFC Ajax and their independent sponsor, the indemnity company AEGON. The tournament is held each class at the Johan Cruyff Arena and at the Sportpark De Toekomst, the team ‘s educate ground, which besides inspired the name of the contest, since De Toekomst in Dutch means The Future. [ 179 ] Every year during the Easter weekend, six U-17 teams are invited to participate in the competition, while the seventh topographic point for the contesters is reserved for the winners of the “ Craques Mongeral AEGON Future Cup ” in Brazil, the sister rival of the tournament in South America. [ 180 ] Youth teams from clear clubs such as Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Milan and many more have participated in the contest over the years. [ 181 ] Ajax are the most successful club of the tournament, having won the trophy a entire of five times .

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