A large selection of football shirts from AFC Ajax

Amsterdamsche Football Club "Ajax", is a Dutch professional football club from Amsterdam. The club was founded on March 18, 1900 and is one of the three traditional top clubs in the Netherlands. Since the establishment of the Eredivisie, Ajax has been playing continuously in this highest division. Ajax has become the Dutch champion 34 times.

On the UEFA ranking of the best clubs in Europe, AFC Ajax is in 21st place in the 2019/20 season on 10 September 2019 as the best Dutch club with 60,500 points. The German Kicker Sportmagazin called Ajax the second best football club of the twentieth century. According to the IFFHS, Ajax is the sixth most successful European club of the twentieth century and in 1992 it was elected by the IFFHS as World Club Team of the Year.

In 1995 Ajax was named World Team of the Year by the English football magazine World Soccer. In 2000 Ajax, together with the Brazilian Santos FC, ended in a shared fifth place among the best football clubs of the twentieth century during the FIFA World gala election. In addition, Ajax was named European Team of the Year four times in 1969, 1971, 1972, and 1973 and five times named Dutch Sports Team of the Year in 1968, 1969, 1972, 1987 and 1995. It is one of the six European clubs that has the right to wear the Badge of Honor by winning three times in a row from the European Cup I in 1971, 1972 and 1973. That three times in a row is also a reason to be one of five clubs to keep the cup. The club has been listed on the stock exchange since 1998, AFC Ajax NV.

Since 1996 the club has been playing its home games at the Johan Cruijff ArenA. Ajax was one of the few European top clubs to compete with Manchester United, Chelsea, Juventus and Bayern Munich, all three of the UEFA main competitions (European Cup I / UEFA Champions League, European Cup II, and UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League). to win. Ajax was also one of the few European clubs to win the continental treble in 1972 (victory of the national championship, the national cup and the European Cup I). In the same year, the world cup for club teams was also won for the first time. Together with Manchester United (1999), Bayern Munich (2013) and FC Barcelona (2009, 2015), it is one of the four clubs that won the continental treble and the world cup in the same season. Nationally, Ajax won twice the double (win of the national championship and the KNVB cup in the same season) and it is the only club that managed to win the national championship, the KNVB cup and the Johan Cruijff Scale in the same season. This happened in the 2001/02 and 2018/19 season.