Original Quick goalkeeper shirt AZ Alkmaar 2010/11

In the 2010/11 season, AZ played in the Eredivisie. AZ also participated this season in the tournaments for the KNVB cup and the UEFA Europa League.

After a bad start to the league (three points from the first five games), AZ eventually finished fourth and the goal to qualify for European football was reached. Because of this fourth place, AZ played in the third heat of the Europa League in the 2011/12 season. In the KNVB cup, AZ was eliminated in the eighth final by Ajax. In the Europa League, AZ (as group head) reached the group stage, but was eliminated from it.

This season was the first of the three-year plan presented to AZ to be made healthy in June, after the bankruptcy of main sponsor and owner DSB Bank and DSB Beheer in October 2009. After the 2012/13 season, AZ is expected to be completely debt-free and back on track. can stand independently.

On 1 December 2010, AZ was classified in category 1 by the license committee of the KNVB. Clubs in this category had to draw up an action plan and had the budget in order within three years on pain of, for example, points being deducted. The reigning national champion of 2009 thought it should have been classified in category 2 on the basis of the budget, but appealed the decision in vain.

AZ achieved a profit of 5.9 million euros over the 2009/10 season. These additional revenues mainly came from the UEFA Champions League. "All announced transfers have been realized. AZ has a healthy balance sheet and hardly any debts," the club management said. AZ was unlucky that the KNVB held on to June 1 as a reference date. Just on that day, the trustee transferred shares to AZ, with which the club could demonstrate that it had come out of the danger zone financially.

On December 8, AZ took measures against Jonathas for his illicit absence [2]. The striker, who had scored three times in eleven league games so far, left on November 8 with permission from the Alkmaar club to assist his sick mother, but he stayed away without contacting for longer than agreed. AZ then sent scout José Fortes Rodriguez to South America to find the 21-year-old attacker. Jonathas confessed that his importance outweighed that of the club. AZ did not accept the attacker's behavior and fined him. Moreover, his salary was withheld from the period when he was not in Alkmaar.