| Club: | Ajax |
| Season: | 2019–20 |
| Manager: | Erik ten Hag |
| Chrtitle: | CEO |
| Chairman: | Edwin van der Sar |
| Owner: | AFC Ajax N.V. |
| Stadium: | Johan Cruyff Arena |
| League: | Eredivisie |
| League Result: | 1st (no title awarded) |
| Cup1: | KNVB Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Semi-finals |
| Cup2: | UEFA Champions League |
| Cup2 Result: | Group stage |
| Cup3: | UEFA Europa League |
| Cup3 Result: | Round of 32 |
| Cup4: | Johan Cruyff Shield |
| Cup4 Result: | Winners |
| League Topscorer: | Quincy Promes (12) |
| Season Topscorer: | Quincy Promes Dušan Tadić (16 each) |
| Highest Attendance: | 54,022 (vs. Willem II, 6 December 2019) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 51,441 (vs. Lille, 17 September 2019) |
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| Prevseason: | 2018–19 |
| Nextseason: | 2020–21 |
During the 2019–20 season, Ajax participated in the Eredivisie, the KNVB Cup, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League and the Johan Cruyff Shield.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on 21 April, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced that events that require a permit are forbidden until 1 September. This meant that football matches were also not allowed, resulting in the end of the 2019–20 Eredivisie season.[1] As a result, the KNVB decided on 24 April to maintain the current league positions but not to appoint a champion. Since Ajax was in first place on 8 March (after the last completed round), it was awarded the highest 2020–21 UEFA Champions League spot without being crowned as national champion.[2]
For a list of all Dutch football transfers in the summer window (1 July 2019 to 31 August 2019) please see List of Dutch football transfers summer 2019. For a list of all Dutch football transfers in the winter window (1 January 2020 to 1 February 2020) please see List of Dutch football transfers winter 2019–20.
| Date | Position | Player | From | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2019 | MF | Răzvan Marin |  Standard Liège | Transfer | €12,500,000 | [4] | |
| 1 July 2019 | DF |  Lisandro Martínez | Defensa y Justicia | Transfer | €7,000,000 | [5] | |
| 1 July 2019 | DF | Kik Pierie | Heerenveen | Transfer | €5,000,000 | [6] | |
| 1 July 2019 | GK | Kjell Scherpen | Emmen | Transfer | Undisclosed | [7] | |
| 1 July 2019 | FW | Quincy Promes | Sevilla | Transfer | €15,700,000 | [8] | |
| 1 July 2019 | GK | Bruno Varela | Benfica | Loan | Undisclosed | [9] | |
| 1 July 2019 | MF | Siem de Jong |  Sydney FC | Loan return | |||
| 1 July 2019 | GK | Benjamin van Leer | NAC Breda | Loan return | |||
| 19 July 2019 | DF |  Edson Álvarez | América | Transfer | €15,000,000 | [10] | |
| 11 January 2020 | FW | Ryan Babel |  Galatasaray | Loan | Undisclosed | [11] | |
| Date | Position | Player | To | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2019 | MF | Frenkie de Jong | Barcelona | Transfer | €75,000,000 | [12] | |
| 1 July 2019 | DF |  Maximilian Wöber | Sevilla | Transfer | €10,500,000 | [13] | |
| 1 July 2019 | DF | Daley Sinkgraven | Bayer Leverkusen | Transfer | €5,000,000 | [14] | |
| 9 July 2019 | FW |  Václav Černý | Utrecht | Transfer | €900,000 | [15] | |
| 15 July 2019 | GK | Kostas Lamprou | Vitesse | Free transfer | [16] | ||
| 18 July 2019 | DF | Matthijs de Ligt |  Juventus | Transfer | €75,000,000 | [17] | |
| 19 July 2019 | DF | Rasmus Nissen | Red Bull Salzburg | Transfer | €5,000,000 | [18] | |
| 9 August 2019 | MF | Lasse Schöne | Genoa | Transfer | €1,500,000 | [19] | |
| 29 August 2019 | FW | Kasper Dolberg |  Nice | Transfer | €20,500,000 | [20] | |
| 30 August 2019 | MF | Dani de Wit | AZ | Transfer | €2,000,000 | [21] | |
| 2 September 2019 | FW |  Mateo Cassierra | Belenenses | Transfer | €2,500,000 | [22] | |
| 30 December 2019 | DF | Luis Manuel Orejuela |  Cruzeiro | Transfer | €1,350,000 | [23] | |
| 31 January 2020 | FW | Kaj Sierhuis | Reims | Transfer | €4,000,000 | [24] | |
| 20 February 2020 | MF | Siem de Jong |  FC Cincinnati | Free transfer | [25] | ||
| Date | Position | Player | To | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2019 | FW |  Dennis Johnsen | PEC Zwolle | Loan | Undisclosed | [26] | |
| 2 September 2019 | DF | Lisandro Magallán | Alavés | Loan | Undisclosed | [27] | |
| 18 January 2020 | MF | Noa Lang | Twente | Loan | Undisclosed | [28] | |
| 27 January 2020 | FW |  Hassane Bandé | Thun | Loan | Undisclosed | [29] |
Undisclosed fees are not included in the transfer totals.
Expenditure
Summer: €55,200,000
Winter: €0,000,000
Total: €55,200,000
Income
Summer: €195,400,000
Winter: €5,350,000
Total: €200,750,000
Net totals
Summer: €140,200,000
Winter: €5,350,000
Total: €145,550,000
See main article: 2019–20 Eredivisie.
See main article: 2019–20 KNVB Cup.
See main article: 2019 Johan Cruyff Shield.
See main article: 2019–20 UEFA Champions League.
The third qualifying round draw was held on 22 July 2019.[30]
The play-off round draw was held on 5 August 2019.[30]
See main article: 2019–20 UEFA Europa League.
|-|colspan="14"|Players sold or loaned out after the start of the season:|-
| width=15 | Rank | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 style="unsortable" | width=145 | Name | width=80 | Eredivisie | width=140 | KNVB Cup Johan Cruyff Shield | width=180 | Champions League Europa League | width=80 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | FW |  | Dušan Tadić | 11 | 2 | 3 | 16 | |||||||||
| 11 | FW | Quincy Promes | 12 | 0 | 4 | 16 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 6 | MF | Donny van de Beek | 8 | 0 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||||
| 9 | FW | Klaas-Jan Huntelaar | 9 | 0 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 22 | MF |  | Hakim Ziyech | 6 | 0 | 3 | 9 | |||||||||
| 6 | 7 | FW | | David Neres | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| 7 | 31 | DF | | Nicolás Tagliafico | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||
| 8 | 27 | MF | Noa Lang | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 23 | FW | Lassina Traoré | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 10 | 15 | MF | Siem de Jong | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 29 | MF | Ryan Gravenberch | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 12 | 4 | DF | | Edson Álvarez | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 21 | DF | | Lisandro Martínez | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 26 | MF | Jurgen Ekkelenkamp | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 28 | DF | | Sergiño Dest | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 16 | 2 | DF | Perr Schuurs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 17 | DF | Daley Blind | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 19 | MF | | Zakaria Labyad | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 25 | FW | Kasper Dolberg | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 37 | FW | Naci Ünüvar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 47 | FW | | Danilo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 49 | FW | Ryan Babel | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Own goal | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 68 | 16 | 21 | 105 | |||||||||||||
Last updated: 7 March 2020
| width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=145 | Name | width=80 | Eredivisie | width=140 | KNVB Cup Johan Cruyff Shield | width=180 | Champions League Europa League | width=80 | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | GK |  | André Onana | 8 | 2 | 5 | 15 | |||||||||
| 2 | 1 | GK | Bruno Varela | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 8 | 3 | 5 | 16 | |||||||||||||
Last updated: 7 March 2020
| Name | Eredivisie | KNVB Cup Johan Cruyff Shield | Champions League Europa League | Total | |||||||||||||||||||
| width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#ff8888;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#ff8888;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#ff8888;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#fe9;" | width=34; background:#ff8888;" | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | DF | Joël Veltman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 4 | DF | | Edson Álvarez | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 6 | MF | Donny van de Beek | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 8 | MF | Carel Eiting | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 9 | FW | Klaas-Jan Huntelaar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 10 | FW | | Dušan Tadić | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 11 | FW | Quincy Promes | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 12 | DF | | Noussair Mazraoui | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| 17 | DF | Daley Blind | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| 18 | MF |  | Răzvan Marin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 21 | DF | | Lisandro Martínez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 22 | MF | | Hakim Ziyech | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 23 | FW | Lassina Traoré | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 24 | GK | | André Onana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 27 | MF | Noa Lang | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 28 | DF | | Sergiño Dest | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 29 | MF | Ryan Gravenberch | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 31 | DF | | Nicolás Tagliafico | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 40 | FW | Sontje Hansen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 41 | DF | Jurriën Timber | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 47 | FW | | Danilo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 49 | FW | Ryan Babel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Totals | 31 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 78 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
Last updated: 7 March 2020