The Ghanaian teenager completed his transfer from Nordsjaelland to Ajax FC on Thursday a move that was heavily greeted by the Ghanaian media and football fans.
It is a no brainer that Ajax is one of the greatest football clubs of the World and for us in Ghana, thanks to the Obuasi-Ajax academy that existed at Ashantigold FC the Dutch club is not new to Ghanaians but what are the details about the club of Johan Cruyff?
Early History
Ajax was founded in Amsterdam on 18 March 1900. The club achieved promotion to the highest level of Dutch football in 1911 and had its first major success in 1917, winning the KNVB Beker, the Netherlands’ national cup.
The following season, Ajax became national champion for the first time. The club defended its title in 1918–19, becoming the only team to achieve an unbeaten season in the Netherlands Football League Championship.
Throughout the 1920s, Ajax was a strong regional power, winning the Eerste Klasse West division in 1921, 1927 and 1928, but could not maintain its success at national level.
This changed in the 1930s, with the club winning five national championships (1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939), making it the most successful Dutch team of the decade.
Ajax won its second KNVB Cup in 1942–43, and an eighth Dutch title in 1946–47, the last season the club was managed by Englishman Jack Reynolds, who, up to this point, had overseen all of its national championship successes as well as its 1917 KNVB Cup win.
In 1956, the first season of the Netherlands’ new professional league, the Eredivisie, was played with Ajax participating as a founding member.
The Amsterdam club became the first national champions under the new format and made its debut in the European Champion Clubs’ Cup the following year, losing to Hungarian champions Vasas SC 6–2 on aggregate at the quarter-final stage. The team were again Eredivisie champions in 1960 and won a third KNVB Cup in 1961.
Trophies
The club has won total 72 trophies – 59 of the which are majors including 34 Eredivisie titles, 19 Dutch Cups, 4 UEFA Champions League, 1 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and 1 UEFA Cup.
