Editing AFC Ajax (section)

==Crest and colours==

===Crest===
In 1900, when the club was founded, the emblem of Ajax was just a picture of an Ajax player. The crest was slightly altered following the club's promotion to the top division in 1911 to match the club's new outfits. In 1928, the club logo was introduced with the head of the [[Greeks|Greek]] hero [[Ajax the Great|Ajax]]. The logo was once again changed in 1990 into an abstract version of the previous one. The new logo still sports the portrait of Ajax, but drawn with just 11 lines, symbolizing the 11 players of a football team.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xs4all.nl/~michielh/hetlogo.html |title=History of the Ajax logo |publisher=Xs4all.nl |date=20 September 1928 |access-date=4 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090721231604/http://www.xs4all.nl/~michielh/hetlogo.html |archive-date=21 July 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> On 17 November 2024, Ajax announced on its official website that the classic logo of 1928 will return for the 2025–26 season, making a comeback after 34 years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Classic Ajax logo returns permanently |url=https://english.ajax.nl/articles/classic-ajax-logo-returns-permanently/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=english.ajax.nl |language=en-US}}</ref><gallery>
File:Ajax Crest from 1928-1990.png|Crest of Ajax (1928–1991, 2021–2022)
File:Ajax Amsterdam.svg|Crest of Ajax (1991–present)
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===Colours===
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Ajax originally played in an all-black strip with a red sash tied around the players' waists, but that strip was soon replaced by a red/white striped shirt and black shorts. Red, black and white are the three colours of the [[flag of Amsterdam]]. Under manager [[Jack Kirwan]], however, the club earned promotion to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 (then the ''Eerste Klasse'' or 'First Class', later named the {{Lang|nl|Eredivisie|italic=no}}), Ajax was forced to change its colours because [[Sparta Rotterdam]] already had exactly the same outfit. Special kits for away fixtures did not exist at the time and according to football association regulations the newcomers had to change their colours if two teams in the same league had identical uniforms. Ajax opted for white shorts and white shirt with a broad, vertical red stripe over chest and back, which still is Ajax's outfit.