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Every question is written and checked by football fans, across the topics that decide a real Ajax expert:
Club history
Founding, golden eras and the moments that shaped Ajax.
Players & legends
Cult heroes and record-breakers, past and present.
Managers
The bosses in the dugout and the trophies they won.
Trophies & honours
Every title, cup and big European night that counts.
Records & stats
Appearances, goals, transfers and all-time bests.
Iconic moments
Famous games, comebacks and unforgettable goals.
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Louis van Gaal's Ajax achieved what remarkable Eredivisie feat in the 1994-95 season?
- Kept a clean sheet in every home game
- Won every away match
- Went the entire league season unbeaten
- Scored 150 league goals
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Answer: Went the entire league season unbeaten
That great Ajax team won the 1994-95 Eredivisie without losing a single match.
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Ajax reached the 1996 Champions League final but lost on penalties to which Italian side?
- Fiorentina
- Juventus
- Inter Milan
- AC Milan
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Answer: Juventus
A year after their triumph, Ajax fell to Juventus on penalties in the 1996 final in Rome.
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Which manager guided Ajax to their most recent Champions League title, in 1995?
- Louis van Gaal
- Marco van Basten
- Rinus Michels
- Johan Cruyff
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Answer: Louis van Gaal
Louis van Gaal's young side beat AC Milan 1-0 in the 1995 final in Vienna.
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Ajax extended their record in Dutch cup football under Erik ten Hag. Which trophy did they lift for a record 20th time in 2021?
- The Johan Cruyff Shield
- The UEFA Super Cup
- The Eredivisie
- The KNVB Cup
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Answer: The KNVB Cup
The 2-1 win over Vitesse gave Ajax their record-extending 20th KNVB Cup, the Dutch equivalent of the FA Cup.
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Finish Johan Cruyff's most famous footballing maxim: 'Playing football is very simple, but...'
- ...playing simple football is the hardest thing there is
- ...only the brave can do it
- ...the ball must always come back to you
- ...winning is even simpler
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Answer: ...playing simple football is the hardest thing there is
The line captures Cruyff's whole philosophy — one-touch, positional football looks effortless but is fiendishly hard to execute.
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In a move that broke Ajax fans' hearts in 1983, Johan Cruyff left the club and signed for which bitter rival?
- PSV Eindhoven
- FC Utrecht
- AZ Alkmaar
- Feyenoord
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Answer: Feyenoord
After Ajax refused to extend his contract, Cruyff joined arch-rivals Feyenoord and won the league-and-cup double there in his only season — the ultimate revenge.
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In 2022 Ajax sold a winger to Manchester United for around 95 million euros — a club-record fee at the time. Who was he?
- David Neres
- Hakim Ziyech
- Antony
- Steven Bergwijn
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Answer: Antony
Antony's move reunited him with Erik ten Hag at Old Trafford and edged Frenkie de Jong's 86m euro Barcelona transfer as Ajax's biggest-ever sale.
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Ajax lost their first-ever European Cup final in 1969. To which Italian club, and by what score?
- Juventus, 2-1
- AC Milan, 4-1
- Inter Milan, 3-0
- Fiorentina, 3-2
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Answer: AC Milan, 4-1
A Pierino Prati hat-trick powered AC Milan to a 4-1 win over the young Ajax side in Madrid.
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Ajax won the 1972 Intercontinental Cup, beating which South American club over two legs?
- Estudiantes
- Peñarol
- Nacional
- Independiente
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Answer: Independiente
Ajax defeated Argentina's Independiente to be crowned unofficial world club champions in 1972.
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Ajax's all-time leading goalscorer is a name many casual fans wouldn't guess — a pre-war forward whose record still stands. Who is he?
- Sjaak Swart
- Piet van Reenen
- Marco van Basten
- Johan Cruyff
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Answer: Piet van Reenen
Van Reenen scored well over 250 goals for Ajax between 1929 and 1942 — even Johan Cruyff, who sits second on the all-time list, never overtook him.
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In 1992 Ajax won the UEFA Cup, completing a rare clean sweep. What did this achievement make them?
- The first Dutch club to win in Europe
- The only club to beat an Italian side in a final
- The first club to win two trophies in one season
- Only the second club ever to win all three major UEFA competitions
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Answer: Only the second club ever to win all three major UEFA competitions
Beating Torino on away goals, Ajax joined Juventus as only the second club to have won the European Cup, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup.
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Matthijs de Ligt captained Ajax's 2018-19 side before joining which club that summer?
- Liverpool
- Barcelona
- Juventus
- Bayern Munich
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Answer: Juventus
The teenage captain moved to Juventus in 2019 after Ajax's run to the Champions League semi-finals.
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About the Ajax quiz
Ajax are the most successful club in Dutch football and the spiritual home of Total Football — a record 36 league titles and a youth academy, De Toekomst, that has fed talent to the whole of Europe for half a century. This free Ajax quiz spans the lot: from Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff turning the early 1970s upside down, through the young side that conquered Europe again in 1995, to the modern teams that keep selling their best and rebuilding. Few clubs are defined by a philosophy as much as a trophy cabinet — this is one of them.
You'll be quizzed on the moments a fan knows by heart. The three European Cups in a row — 1971, 1972 and 1973 — with Cruyff's Ajax pulling defenders out of position and perfecting the pressing game. Louis van Gaal's 1995 side beating AC Milan 1-0 in Vienna, an 18-year-old Patrick Kluivert coming off the bench to score the winner. The academy graduates who became legends elsewhere: Marco van Basten, Dennis Bergkamp, Frank and Ronald de Boer, Edwin van der Sar. And the 2018-19 team of Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt that knocked out Real Madrid and Juventus before losing to Spurs in the last seconds of the semi-final.
Expect questions on champions and cup finals, record signings and record sales, the managers who shaped the club, and the cult heroes who never quite left Amsterdam's heart. There are transfers to place (Juventus paying a record fee for de Ligt, de Jong heading to Barcelona), records to pin down — 36 league titles and 20 KNVB Cups, both Dutch records — and squad details that only regulars at the Johan Cruyff ArenA will know. Difficulty runs from gentle openers about the Total Football era to genuinely hard deep cuts on specific finals, scorers and seasons.
As with every Ball IQ quiz, each answer comes with a short explanation, so a question you get wrong still teaches you the story behind it. Play the sample set here for free, straight in your browser with no sign-up, then open the Ball IQ app for the full Ajax quiz — hundreds more questions, plus daily challenges and multiplayer.
Ball IQ has 45 Ajax questions — 8 easy, 28 medium and 9 hard.