Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax, also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or simply Ajax, is a Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football.
Ajax is the most successful club in the Netherlands, with 36 Eredivisie titles and 20 KNVB Cups. It has continuously played in the Eredivisie since the league's inception in 1956.
Ajax plays at the Johan Cruyff Arena, which opened as the Amsterdam ArenA in 1996 and was renamed in 2018.
The club is one of five teams that have earned the right to keep the European Cup and to wear a multiple-winner badge.
n 1972, they completed the continental treble by winning the Eredivisie, KNVB Cup, and the European Cup.
The 1988–89 season saw Dennis Bergkamp, a young forward who had first appeared under Cruyff in 1986, establish himself as a regular goalscorer for the club. Bergkamp helped Ajax to the Eredivisie title and was the top scorer in the division during the 1990–91, 1991–92 and 1992–93 seasons. Ajax won the UEFA Cup in 1992 to become the second club, after Juventus, to have won all three major European club competitions.