Ajax
Netherlands
Overview
Ajax is an Amsterdam football club founded in 1900, renowned for domestic success, European Cups and an academy and playing philosophy closely associated with Total Football.
Key facts
- Country
- Netherlands
- City
- Amsterdam
- Founded
- 1900
History
AFC Ajax was founded on 18 March 1900 and reached the Dutch top flight in the early twentieth century. The club’s defining international era came around the turn of the 1970s, when teams built around Johan Cruyff won three consecutive European Cups from 1971 to 1973. Ajax returned to the summit of Europe by winning the Champions League in 1995. Footballopedia links Ajax to Cruyff, the Netherlands, Johan Cruijff ArenA, the European Cup and Champions League, academy graduates, coaches and later clubs influenced by Ajax’s player-development and tactical traditions.