THE AJAX
INHERITANCE
AJAX AMSTERDAM
MICHAEL VAN PRAGG
welcome
It is with great pleasure that we introduce Ajax
Amsterdam. Our club was founded in 1900
and those people that were there at that
historic event planted a seed that has grown
big and strong.
We are proud that the name AJAX ranks so
high internationally among the many well-
known football clubs in the world. Indeed,
when talking about the Netherlands, people
abroad are more likely to speak about Ajax
than about tulips or the Amsterdamse canals.
It goes without saying that this is a matter of
great pride to us.
At the same time we realise that the club owns this fame to efforts and results achieved in the past
and this puts the pressure on the present Ajax-team to live up to its reputation. We have a responsibility
of taking this inheritance further.
The talents of the players of many great football players of our great era in the early seventies, as
well as those of the players active at the time, were nutured in the Ajax youth training programme,
which is still, and will continue to be, a vocal point of club policy.
According to a familiar Dutch saying, youth holds the key to the future.
We are very pleased therefore, to present in this guide a selection, for a major part based on young-
players, supplemented with some older, more experienced ones.
The fine results achieved at national level in the past two years make us confident that, within a
couple of years, our current selection will be able to propel Ajax to the level it once stood. So that
in future people can continue to sing the praise of Ajax Amsterdam, the Ajax of the nineties that is.
MICHAEL VAN PRAGG President Ajax Amsterdam.
Dutch Champions:
1918-1919-1931-1932-1934
1937-1939-1947-1957-1960
1966-1967-1968-1970-1972
1973-1977-1979-1980-1982
1983-1985-1990
Dutch Cup-winners
1917-1943-1961-1970
1971-1972-1979-1983-1986
1987
AJAX AMSTERDAM
Founded March 18th 1900
ROLL OF HONOUR
Winners European Champions Cup
1971-1972-1973
Winners European Cup Winners Cup
1987
Winners Intercontinental Cup
1972