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Club facts: Ajax

Jan Vertonghen and Dario Cvitanić celebrate their Dutch title-clinching win over Twente in May 2011
Jan Vertonghen and Dario Cvitanić celebrate their Dutch title-clinching win over Twente in May 2011 ©Getty Images

AFC Ajax
Formed: 1900
Nickname: Godenzonen (Sons of the Gods)

UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
European Cup/UEFA Champions League (4): (1969), 1971, 1972, 1973, 1995, (1996)
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1987, (1988)
UEFA Cup (1): 1992, (2017)
UEFA Super Cup (2): 1973, (1987), 1995
European/South American Cup (2): 1972, 1995

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 36 (2022)
Dutch Cup: 20 (2021)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2021/22:
round of 16
2020/21:
UEFA Europa League quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2019/20:
UEFA Europa League round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2018/19:
semi-finals
2017/18: UEFA Europa League qualifying play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2016/17:
UEFA Europa League runners-up (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs)
2015/16:
UEFA Europa League group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2014/15:
UEFA Europa League round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2013/14: UEFA Europa League round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 
2012/13: 
UEFA Europa League round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)

Records
UEFA club competition
Biggest home win
14-0: Ajax v Red Boys Differdange
03/10/84, UEFA Cup first round second leg

Biggest away win
1-8: HJK Helsinki v Ajax
19/09/79, European Cup first round first leg

Heaviest home defeat
1-6:Ajax v Napoli
04/10/22, UEFA Champions League group stage

Heaviest away defeat
5-1: Bayern München v Ajax
22/10/80, European Cup second round first leg
4-0 four times, most recently v Barcelona
18/09/13, UEFA Champions League group stage

UEFA Champions League (group stage to final only)
Biggest home win
4-0 four times, most recently v Rangers
07/09/22, group stage

Biggest away win
1-5 twice, most recently v Sporting CP
15/09/21, group stage

Heaviest home defeat
1-6: Ajax v Napoli (see above)

Heaviest away defeat
4-0 twice, most recently v Barcelona (see above)