With a beautiful spring weekend approaching, Ajax’s full focus is on matchday 29. The next final for Francesco Farioli’s team is Sunday’s away match against Willem II.
In recent weeks, the Ajax players have settled into a consistent rhythm, playing one match each Sunday. The last two games — both against teams from Brabant — were victories. First, PSV was defeated 0-2, and the match against NAC Breda also ended in a win with a two-goal margin: 3-1.
This Sunday, Ajax hopes to make it three wins in a row. In the build-up to the clash with Willem II, our photographer attended Friday’s training session.
In the series Dapp're Strijders, Hein travels with Ajax and Ziggo to raise awareness about current social issues. This time, we join Kian Fitz-Jim on a visit to his old primary school in Amsterdam to bring attention to the topic of Social Hate among the students, and together, we go through the Online-Masters lesson module.
Ajax and Olympia have expanded their existing partnership. Employment agency Olympia will become the official back-of-shirt sponsor of Ajax from next season until at least 2027. The Olympia logo will be shown on the back of the match shirts (below the squad number) of both the Ajax 1 and Ajax U23 in league matches, cup competitions, and other national and international fixtures where permitted. Olympia will also remain the main sponsor and shirt sponsor of the Ajax youth academy and will continue as the title sponsor of the Olympia Future Cup.
Ajax received the sad news on Thursday of the passing of Leo Beenhakker with great sorrow and dismay. The Rotterdam native served as Ajax head coach in two separate spells and briefly combined the role with that of national team manager in 1990. He later returned to the club as technical director at the Johan Cruijff ArenA. Beenhakker was undeniably one of the most colourful and successful Dutch managers in history. He was 82 years old.