Editing AFC Ajax (section)

===Reserves team===
{{Main|Jong Ajax}}
[[Jong Ajax]] (''formerly more commonly known as Ajax 2'') is the reserve team of AFC Ajax. The team is composed mostly of professional footballers, who are often recent graduates from the highest youth level (Ajax A1) serving their first professional contract as a reserve, or players who are otherwise unable to play in the first team.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/10788/Eredivisie/article/detail/3334299/2012/10/19/De-Boer-laat-herstelde-Sulejmani-bij-Jong-Ajax.dhtml |title=De Boer laat 'herstelde' Sulejmani bij Jong Ajax |publisher=Volkskrant |date=19 October 2012 |access-date=13 July 2013 |archive-date=25 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125134631/https://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/10788/Eredivisie/article/detail/3334299/2012/10/19/De-Boer-laat-herstelde-Sulejmani-bij-Jong-Ajax.dhtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Jong Ajax - NEC 6 april 2018.jpg|thumb|231x231px|[[Jong Ajax]] against [[NEC Nijmegen]] in the [[Eerste Divisie|Eerst divisie]] in 2018]]
Since 1992, Jong Ajax competed in the [[Beloften Eredivisie]], competing against other reserve teams such as [[Jong PSV]], [[FC Groningen|Jong FC Groningen]] or [[AZ Alkmaar|Jong AZ]]. They have won the Beloften {{Lang|nl|Eredivisie|italic=no}} title a record eight times, as well as the [[KNVB Reserve Cup]] three times, making them the most successful reserve squad in the Netherlands. By winning the Beloften Eredivisie title, Jong Ajax was able to qualify for the actual KNVB Cup, even advancing to the semi-finals on three occasions. Its best result in the Dutch Cup was under manager [[Jan Olde Riekerink]] in 2001–02, when a semi-final loss to [[FC Utrecht|Utrecht]] in a [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|Penalty shoot-out]] after extra time, which saw Utrecht advance, and thus preventing an Ajax–Jong Ajax Dutch Cup final.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=575358&sec=europe&root=europe&cc=5739 |title=Dutch KNVB Cup – ESPN Soccernet |publisher=[[ESPN]] |date=24 September 2008 |access-date=3 August 2012 |archive-date=5 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905015117/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=575358&sec=europe&root=europe&cc=5739 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The 2013–14 season marked the [[Eerste Divisie|Jupiler League]] debut of the Ajax reserves' squad, Jong Ajax.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ajaxlife.nl/updates/jong-ajax-wordt-tegen-telstar-ontgroend-in-eerste-divisie |title=Jong Ajax wordt tegen Telstar ontgroed in Eerste Divisie |publisher=Ajaxlife.nl |access-date=4 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923065538/http://www.ajaxlife.nl/updates/jong-ajax-wordt-tegen-telstar-ontgroend-in-eerste-divisie |archive-date=23 September 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Previously playing in the Beloften Eredivisie (a separate league for reserve teams, not included in the Dutch professional or amateur league structure), players were allowed to move around freely between the reserve team and the first team during the season.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/5609/Eerste-divisie/article/detail/3446107/2013/05/23/Reserveteams-Ajax-en-Twente-in-Jupiler-League.dhtml |title=Reserveteams Ajax en Twente in Jupiler League |publisher=AD.nl |access-date=4 July 2013 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210534/http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/5609/Eerste-divisie/article/detail/3446107/2013/05/23/Reserveteams-Ajax-en-Twente-in-Jupiler-League.dhtml |url-status=live }}</ref> This is no longer the case as Jong Ajax now registers and fields a separate squad from that of Ajax first team for the Eerste Divisie, the second tier of professional football in the Netherlands. Its home matches are played at Sportpark De Toekomst, except for the occasional match in the Johan Cruyff Arena. Now regarded a semi-professional team in its own respect, the only period in which players are able to move between squads are during the transfer windows, unless the player has made less than 15 appearances for the first team, then he is still eligible to appear in both first team and second team matches during the season.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nu.nl/sport/3492234/jong-psv-vervangt-katwijk-in-eerste-divisie.html |title=Jong PSV vervangt Katwijk in eerste divisie |date=4 June 2013 |publisher=NU.nl |access-date=4 July 2013 |archive-date=6 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406121215/https://www.nu.nl/sport/3492234/jong-psv-vervangt-katwijk-in-eerste-divisie.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Furthermore, the team is not eligible for promotion to the {{Lang|nl|Eredivisie|italic=no}} or to participate in the KNVB Cup. Jong Ajax was joined in the Eerste Divisie by [[Jong FC Twente|Jong Twente]] and Jong PSV, reserve teams who have also moved from the Beloften {{Lang|nl|Eredivisie|italic=no}} to the Eerste Divisie, in place of [[VV Katwijk]], [[SC Veendam]] and [[AGOVV Apeldoorn]], increasing the total number of teams in the Jupiler League from 18 to 20.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nos.nl/artikel/514357-ook-jong-psv-naar-jupiler-league.html |title=Ook Jong PSV naar Jupiler League |date=5 June 2013 |publisher=NOS.nl |access-date=4 July 2013 |archive-date=11 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611022331/http://nos.nl/artikel/514357-ook-jong-psv-naar-jupiler-league.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Ajax reserve squad Jong Ajax left the Beloften Eredivisie in 2013, having held a 21-year tenure in the reserves league, having also won the league title a record eight times (1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2009).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vi.nl/Competities/Competitie.htm?viewid=53&dbid=4283&typeofpage=84136 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222182239/http://www.vi.nl/Competities/Competitie.htm?viewid=53&dbid=4283&typeofpage=84136 |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 February 2013 |title=Beloften Eredivisie Statistics |publisher=Voetbal International |access-date=4 July 2013 }}</ref>