The new season for the Erdivise sees a new home strip for Ajax Amsterdam.  They have continued to keep the traditional colours on the kit with it being mainly red and white.  The sleeves have the iconic three stripes made famous by the Adidas brand.  This is a very nice and simple shirt and the collar keeps the shirt tidy around the neck.  The main sponsor logo of Aegon blends in quite nicely with the shirt as well as it is not a very complicated logo and complements the trim of the shirt around the neck line in particular.

Ajax are probably the most well known and well supported of the Dutch teams across the world.  The club has a lot of history and no doubt they will be looking to improve on their previous season domestic league position of 3rd place.  Last season’s poor league performance meant there was a change in management, with Van Basten leaving and Jol coming in as his replacement.  Jol will be looking to start afresh and maybe the new shirt will bring a bit of extra luck to his side’s results.

Ajax as a club are steeped in history, going back to the times when Johan Cruyff was the main man for them, then coming through to the 90’s with players like Bergkamp, Kluivert, Davids, Overmars and more having played for them. Towards the late 90’s they had got the reputation of being a team that made the best of their youth policy and many other teams around the world would be trying to replicate it.

There are many choices of name and number to be added to this shirt, not only are there the players I mentioned already, but also other more recent players like Ibrahimovic, Suarez, Huntelaar and Vermaelen.  I personally would go for Bergkamp if I had to choose.

Steve Aitken.