Ajax Amsterdam
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax, also referred to as Ajax Amsterdam, AFC Ajax, or simply Ajax, is a football club from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
History
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Ajax is one of the top football clubs in the world. It is one of the "big three" clubs in the Netherlands that dominate the
Dutch football scene. The other "big three" clubs are
Feyenoord Rotterdam and
PSV Eindhoven.
The club was founded in
March 18,
1900 by the brothers Han and Johan Dade and based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The club is probably well-known by all football fans around with world with its recognizable white with a single red stripe home jersey. The club is also famous for its respectable youth program that has introduced to the world many great professional footballers such as
Johan Cruijff and
Marco van Basten.
Ajax’s first stadium was built in
1911 out of wood and was simply called The Stadium. Later, the team moved to a new, proper stadium called De Meer in
1934. In
1996, Ajax changed to a new home ground known as the
1918,
1919,
1931,
1932,
1934,
1937,
1939,
1947,
1957,
1960,
1966,
1967,
1968,
1970,
1972,
1973,
1977,
1979,
1980,
1982,
1983,
1985,
1990,
1994,
1995,
1996,
1998,
2002,
2004.
- Dutch cup: 15
- 1917, 1943, 1961, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2002.
- Dutch supercup (renamed in 1996 as Johan Cruijff-schaal (Johan Cruijff Shield): 4
Stadium: Amsterdam Arena, also written in
camel case: ArenA (
Amsterdam southeast).
Famous Ajax players
See also
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