AFC Ajax

AFC Ajax

Full name	Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax NV
Founded	March 18, 1900; 126 years ago (1900-03-18)
Stadium	Johan Cruyff ArenA
Capacity	52,960
Chairman	Frank Eijken
League	Eredivisie
2024-2025	Eredivisie, 2nd
Website	http://www.ajax.nl/
Home colours Away colours

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (Ajax Amsterdam, AFC Ajax, or simply Ajax) is a football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands. They play in the Eredivisie, which is the highest football competition in The Netherlands. Players like Johan Cruyff, Van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Jari Litmanen played for this club.

History

The club was founded on March 18, 1900. The founders were Floris Stempel, Carel Reeser and Johan Dade. It was the second attempt to found Ajax. In 1894 they tried it too. Ajax is named after the mythological hero Ajax the Great.

Ajax promoted to the highest level in 1911. Their coach was Jack Kirwan. Because Sparta Rotterdam had almost the same kit (clothes), they had to change it.

Players

Current squad

As of 3 February 2026

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  Czech Republic Vítězslav Jaroš (on loan from Liverpool) 2 DF  Brazil Lucas Rosa 3 DF  Denmark Anton Gaaei 4 DF  Japan Ko Itakura 5 DF  Netherlands Owen Wijndal 6 MF  Netherlands Youri Regeer 7 FW  Argentina Maher Carrizo 9 FW  Denmark Kasper Dolberg 10 MF  Israel Oscar Gloukh 11 FW  Belgium Mika Godts 12 GK  Netherlands Joeri Heerkens 15 DF  Netherlands Youri Baas 17 FW  Norway Oliver Edvardsen

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  Netherlands Davy Klaassen (captain) 19 FW  Netherlands Don-Angelo Konadu 23 FW  Netherlands Steven Berghuis (vice-captain) 24 MF  Belgium Jorthy Mokio 25 FW  Netherlands Wout Weghorst 26 GK  Indonesia Maarten Paes 28 MF  Netherlands Kian Fitz-Jim 30 DF  Netherlands Aaron Bouwman 32 DF  Japan Takehiro Tomiyasu 37 DF  Croatia Josip Šutalo 43 FW  Morocco Rayane Bounida 47 DF  Ukraine Oleksandr Zinchenko 48 MF  Netherlands Sean Steur

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  England Charlie Setford (at Milton Keynes Dons until 30 June 2026) — DF  Netherlands Gerald Alders (at Telstar until 30 June 2026) — DF  Argentina Gastón Ávila (at Rosario Central until 31 December 2026) — DF  Netherlands Tristan Gooijer (at PEC Zwolle until 30 June 2026) — DF  Netherlands Dies Janse (at FC Groningen until 30 June 2026) — DF  Turkey Ahmetcan Kaplan (at NEC until 30 June 2026) — DF  Netherlands Nick Verschuren (at FC Volendam until 30 June 2026)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  Norway Sivert Mannsverk (at Sparta Prague until 30 June 2026) — MF  Netherlands Branco van den Boomen (at Angers until 30 June 2026) — FW  England Chuba Akpom (at Ipswich Town until 30 June 2026) — FW  Netherlands Amourricho van Axel Dongen (at Heerenveen until 30 June 2026) — FW  Poland Jan Faberski (at PEC Zwolle until 30 June 2026) — FW  Netherlands Julian Rijkhoff (at Almere City until 30 June 2026)

Retired numbers

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

Notes:

1. ↑ Number 34 has not been used since Abdelhak Nouri (who played for Ajax from 2015 to 2017) suffered extreme cardiac arrhythmia in a friendly match against Werder Bremen, but the number is not officially retired.

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