This list consists of Ajax players that have scored 50 or more goals in official competitions for the first team. There are a total of 17 players that have scored 100 goals or more. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar was the last player to reach this mark. Piet van Reenen is first on the list with 278 goals. Between 1929 and 1938, he was the club top scorer for nine straight seasons, scoring an average of one goal per match.
Ajax top scorers by season
The following is a list of players who have finished as the club top scorers for Ajax by season.
Ajax top scorers by season
In the 1958–59 season, Wim Bleijenberg and Piet van der Kuil tied as the club's leading scorers in league matches with 15 goals, whilePiet van der Kuil led the club with 30 goals scored overall.
In the 1969–70 season, Johan Cruyff and Dick van Dijk tied as the club's leading scorers in league matches with 23 goals, while Johan Cruyff led the club with 33 goals scored overall.
In the 1988–89 season, Dennis Bergkamp and Stefan Pettersson tied as the club's leading scorers in league matches with 13 goals, and overall with 16 goals scored.
In the 1996–97 season, Patrick Kluivert and Jari Litmanen tied as the club's leading scorers in league matches with 6 goals, and overall with 8 goals scored.
In the 1998–99 season, Jari Litmanen and Benni McCarthy tied as the club's leading scorers in league matches with 11 goals, while Jari Litmanen led the club with 13 scored overall.
In the 2004–05 season, Ryan Babel and Wesley Sneijder tied as the club's leading scorers in league matches with 7 goals, while Ryan Babel led the club with 9 goals scored overall.
In the 2013–14 season, Davy Klaassen and Kolbeinn Sigþórsson tied as the club's leading scorers in league matches with 10 goals, while Lasse Schöne led the club with 13 goals scored overall.
In the 2019–20 season, Quincy Promes and Dušan Tadić tied as the club's leading scorers overall with 16 goals, while Quincy Promes led the club in league goals scored with 12.
40 goals in one season
The following is a list of players who have scored 40 or more goals for Ajax in a single season.
40+ goals in one season
Youngest team fielded in Eredivisie history
On 14 May 2017, manager Peter Bosz fielded the youngest team in Eredivisie history, with an average age of 20 years and 139 days, when they played Willem II on the final match day of the 2016–17 Eredivisie season. At the age of 24, Davy Klaassen was the oldest on the pitch and was joined by two players aged 21, five aged 20, a 19-year-old, 18-year-old and a 17-year-old. The Youngest team Lineup:
The following is a list of the youngest Ajax players to debut for the club in Eredivisie history.
Youngest players to debut for Ajax
Players to score on their debut
The following is a list of the youngest Ajax players to score on their debut in Eredivisie history.
Youngest to score on their debut
Youngest players to score a goal
The following is a list of the youngest Ajax players to score a goal in Eredivisie history. The list also includes how many matches were played prior to scoring.
Youngest to score a goal
Top 5 youngest to score an own goal
The following is a list of the top five youngest Ajax players to score an own goal in Eredivisie history.
Top 5 youngest to score an own goal
Highest scoring in the National Cup
The following is a list of the players who have scored the most goals for Ajax in the KNVB Cup, with at least five goals scored.
Most goals in a single cup match
The following is a list of the players who have scored the most goals for Ajax in a single KNVB Cup match, with at least three goals scored.
Highest scoring in the Champions League
The following is a list of the players who have scored the most goals for Ajax in the Champions League, with at least four goals scored.
Players with most appearances
The following is a list of the top 10 players who have played the most matches for Ajax.
Most successful managers
The following is a list of the Ajax managers who have won the most Eredivisie titles at the helm of Ajax.
The following is a list of the Ajax managers who have won the most consecutive Eredivisie titles at the helm of Ajax.
Top 25 most expensive transfers
The following is a list of the top 25 most expensive transfers in the club's history for both the club acquisitions and departures. Top 25 most expensive player acquisitions
At the end of each season, Ajax have awarded their top player of the season, the top talent of the season and the top prospect from their training ground De Toekomst with the following awards. Since 1993, the AFC Ajax Player of the Year is awarded the Rinus Michels Award, the AFC Ajax Talent of the Year is awarded the Marco van Basten Award since 1994. The club's top prospect from the training ground, the Talent of the Future has been awarded the Sjaak Swart Award since 1999. In 2018 the Talent of the Future award was renamed the Abdelhak Nouri Award, in honor of Abdelhak Nouri in commemoration of the 'jewel of the training ground', almost a year after the player had suffered an arrhythmia attack in a pre-season friendly match against Werder Bremen.
VVCS-gala prize winners
The VVCS-gala is an annual gala which takes place at the end of each season, where the best Dutch Footballer, best keeper, topscorer of the Eredivisie, and the talent of the year are awarded. Here are a list Ajax players who have received awards at the gala in the past.
Dutch Footballer of the Year is an award honoring the best Dutch Football player in the Eredivisie. Now the Golden boot is award to the best Footballer, when the two awards used to be presented separately in the past. The prize is nominated by De Telegraaf and Voetbal International, and is presented at the VVCS-gala.
The Dutch Goalkeeper of the Year was a title awarded to the best Goalkeeper of the Dutch Eredivisie. The prize was awarded at the gala from 1987 to 2004. Until 1997, the prize was awarded annually, but was awarded by the season after 1998–99.
Goalkeeper of the Year
Dutch Talent of the Year
The Dutch Talent of the Year was a title awarded to the best Talent of the Dutch Eredivisie from 1984 to 2004. It was merged with the Johan Cruijff Prijs the following season.
Talent of the Year
Dutch Manager of the year
The Dutch professional manager of the Year is a title awarded to the best professional manager of the Dutch Eredivisie from 2003 to present. It is known as the Rinus Michels Award.
Rinus Michels Award
Eredivisie top scorers
The following is a list of Ajax players who have finished the season as top scorer of the Dutch Eredivisie.
The following is a list of players who have played for the Netherlands national football team while playing for Ajax. The first column reflects the player's caps for the national team during their tenure at Ajax, while the second column shows the player's total appearances for the national team. The third column represents the number of goals scored in total, except when marked with an asterisk, which indicates goals conceded in case of a goalkeeper. Statistics accurate as of 19 November 2019 after the match against Estonia.
Red Boys Differdange
WHC
Omonia
FK Pirmasens
Zürich
Maribor
Glentoran
Benfica
Real Madrid
Lillestrøm
Milan
Malmö FF
Hannover 96
Hajduk Split
Panathinaikos
Tottenham Hotspur
Red Bull Salzburg
Spartak Moscow
Vasas
Antony
Miralem Sulejmani
Edson Álvarez
Răzvan Marin
Standard Liège
Hakim Ziyech
Lisandro Magallán
Hassane Bandé
Michael Laudrup
Vissel Kobe
Luis Suárez
Georgi Kinkladze
Davinson Sánchez
Arkadiusz Milik
Nice