However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

AZ's second championship was the first Eredivisie title in 28 years, and the first time since then that the Eredivisie was won by a team other than the " big three " ( Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord ).

Proteus then answered truthfully, further informing Menelaus that his brother Agamemnon had been murdered on his return home, that Ajax the Lesser had been shipwrecked and killed, and that Odysseus was stranded on Calypso's Isle Ogygia.

Bacchylides then tells of the greatness of these men ’ s sons, Achilles and Ajax, alluding to a second myth, the tale of Ajax repelling Hector on the beaches of Troy, keeping the Trojans from burning the Greek ships.

In his first full season as Ajax No. 1 he won the Dutch Football Goalkeeper of the Year, he would then go on to retain the award for the next 3 consecutive years

He then went on to help Ajax become champions of the Eredivisie for the 2010 / 2011 season in a 3-1 home victory over FC Twente, the champions of the previous year, on the final matchday.

Born in Amstelveen, North Holland, Reiziger started his career with hometown's AFC Ajax, making his first-team debuts at the age of 17, then serving two consecutive loan spells, with FC Volendam and FC Groningen: with the latter, in the 1993 – 94 season, he scored a career-best six goals, while operating also as a midfielder.

He then made his official Ajax debut against Willem II after the winter break on 2 February 2003 in a 6 – 0 win.

In late October 1998, Zajec replaced Zlatko Kranjčar as manager at Dinamo Zagreb ( then known as Croatia Zagreb ), following Kranjčar's poor record in the UEFA Champions League group stage, where the team only managed to grab a single point in three matches ( drawing with Ajax at home, before losing to both Olympiacos and Porto on the road ).

The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France was the first time South Africa's national football team had reached the later stages of the competition and McCarthy ( then at Ajax ) was one of their key players.

Mokoena moved to Bayer Leverkusen and Ajax, before twice being loaned out to Germinal Beerschot and then transferring to KRC Genk for two years.

McManaman had also been noted for his versatility in his free role, switching from right to left wings, and his ability to play in central midfield, behind the front pair, or as a forward, with many notable managers including then Ajax coach Louis van Gaal, describing it as a role few could pull off the way McManaman had.

Ajax turned down a loan move from Real Betis for Mido in June. ref name =" Ajax turn down Betis approach "> Marseille were then believed to have made an offer for the striker and Celta were not ready to meet Ajax's asking price of € 15 million.

When this data is received via Ajax, the JavaScript program then uses the Document Object Model ( DOM ) to dynamically update the web page based on the new data, allowing for a rapid and interactive user experience.

Ajax then gives his son, Eurysaces, his shield.

When Cruyff was awarded a penalty kick in a Dutch Eredivisie league match against Helmond Sport on 5 December 1982, with Ajax leading 1-0, Cruyff passed the ball sideways to Olsen, who returned it to Cruyff, with the Dutchman then slotting the ball past the bemused goalkeeper to make the score 2-0.

He was then chosen to direct the youth side of AFC Ajax, a position he would occupy for five seasons.

15000 fans went to Belgrade to see Panathinaikos face the then very strong Red Star Belgrade while 20000 travelled to London's Wembley Stadium for the final against AFC Ajax.

In this case, when the page is rendered on the web browser, a piece of Ajax code would call back to the server and pass information about the client that can then be aggregated by a web analytics company.

When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, despite their sacrifices Athena became so angry that she persuaded Zeus to send a storm that sank many of their ships.

As Martin Pearson he published the " Ajax Calkins " series, which became the basis for his novel Destiny's Orbit ( 1962 ).

In the extra time, Feyenoord became the only team to beat Ajax the season they won the Eredivisie and the Champions League unbeaten.

With his eventual hiring as Feyenoord manager, Koeman became the first to ever serve as both player and head coach at all teams of the so-called " traditional big three " of Dutch football: ( AFC Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord itself ) Moreover, he played and managed these teams in the same order.

Van Basten became trainer of Ajax after Euro 2008 but resigned on 6 May 2009 after his team failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League.

During the Trojan campaign, she was taken captive by the Greeks and was given to Ajax, by whom she became mother of Aeantides.

She became by him mother of Ajax.

* 1989: Barcelona 2 – 0 Sampdoria-Johan Cruyff became the first manager to win the CWC with two different teams, having managed Ajax in their 1987 final victory.

In 1941, the southeastern portion of the township became the independent town of Ajax.

In 1996, Edgar Davids became Europe's first elite club Bosman transferred player, when he moved from Ajax Amsterdam to AC Milan.

After his playing career ended with Ajax, Laudrup became a coach at age 36 when he started serving as an assistant coach for the Danish national team coach Morten Olsen in 2000.

In the 1950s he took over a small natural gas company, Ajax Petroleum, and built it into what became one of the leading companies in the industry, Norcen Resources.

By 1971, European participation in the Intercontinental Cup became a running question, and many European teams withdrew, namely Ajax in 1971 and 1973, Bayern Munich in 1974 and 1975, Liverpool in 1977 and 1978, and Nottingham Forest in 1979.

Once considered one of the best attacking midfielders in the world, he became the first Finnish footballing superstar while playing for Ajax in the mid-1990s, and won the 1995 Champions League with them.

He became the first ever Finnish player to have won the European Cup or the UEFA Champions League when Ajax beat Milan in the 1994 – 95 final.

Born in Kolding, Mølby started his senior playing career at the biggest football club of his hometown of Kolding ( Kolding Football Club ), where he became team captain at the age of 19, before joining AFC Ajax, where he won the Dutch Championship in 1983.

He soon became Ajax's " Golden Boy " of the mid-90s, leading the Ajax front-line as the side claimed several pieces of silverware during that period.

Overmars became famous with Ajax under Louis van Gaal.

In the same year Overmars became director of football at AFC Ajax.

Under Van Gaal, Ajax became the Eredivisie champions three times, in 1994, 1995 ( notably going the entire 94 – 95 league season unbeaten in both the league and the Champions League ) and 1996.

Michels became most notable for his coaching achievements, having won the European Cup with Ajax and the Spanish league with Barcelona, and having had four tenures as coach of the Netherlands national team, which he led to reach the final match of the 1974 World Cup and to win the 1988 European Championship.

Via Joop Köhler, a friend of the family who was commissioner at Ajax, Michels was introduced to the club and became a junior member in 1940.

He became a regular in the Ajax defense in his first season, but his progress was halted when he broke his foot in August 2001, and had to miss most of the 2001 – 02 season.

He became a regular in the side that season, playing 39 times, including in Arsenal's 1969 – 70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup campaign ; he scored goals against Dinamo Bacau and Ajax, as well as playing in both legs of the final against RSC Anderlecht, which Arsenal won 4 – 3 on aggregate.