| Club: | AFC Ajax |
| Season: | 2022–23 |
| Chrtitle: | CEO |
| Chairman: | Edwin van der Sar |
| Owner: | AFC Ajax N.V. |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Alfred Schreuder (1 July 2022 until 26 January 2023) John Heitinga (interim 27 January 2023 - 2 February 2023, head coach since 2 February 2023 until end of the season) |
| Stadium: | Johan Cruyff Arena |
| League: | Eredivisie |
| League Result: | 3rd |
| Cup1: | KNVB Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Runners-up |
| Cup2: | Johan Cruyff Shield |
| Cup2 Result: | Runners-up |
| Cup3: | UEFA Champions League |
| Cup3 Result: | Group stage |
| Cup4: | UEFA Europa League |
| Cup4 Result: | Knockout round play-offs |
| League Topscorer: | Brian Brobbey (13) |
| Season Topscorer: | Mohammed Kudus (18) |
| Highest Attendance: | 54,990 vs. Vitesse, 9 November 2022 Eredivisie), (vs. FC Volendam, 26 January 2023 Eredivisie) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 49,555 (vs. SC Heerenveen, 10 September 2022 Eredivisie) |
| Average Attendance: | |
| Largest Win: | 7–1 (vs Excelsior Rotterdam (H) 16 October 2022 Eredivisie) |
| Largest Loss: | 1–6 (vs Napoli (H) 4 October 2022 UEFA Champions League) |
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| Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
| Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
The 2022–23 season was the 123rd season in the history of AFC Ajax and their 67th consecutive season in the top flight. The club participated in the Eredivisie, KNVB Cup, Johan Cruyff Shield, UEFA Champions League, and UEFA Europa League.
The mid-season break was longer and started earlier because of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, with the last match on 13 November 2022, and the first match after the World Cup on 8 January 2023 (following the World Cup final on 18 December 2022).
| Date | Player | Transferred from | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tottenham Hotspur | €31,250,000 | [1] | ||||
| AZ | €10,000,000 | [2] | ||||
| Rangers | €23,000,000 | [3] | ||||
| FC Porto | €5,000,000 | [4] | ||||
| RB Leipzig | €16,350,000 | [5] | ||||
| Club América | €5,000,000 | [6] | ||||
| Trabzonspor | €9,500,000 | [7] | ||||
| 1899 Hoffenheim | Free transfer | [8] | ||||
| Villarreal | €8,000,000 | [9] |
| Date | Player | Transferred to | Fee | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Released | Free transfer | [10] | |||
| Feyenoord | Free transfer | [11] | |||
| FC Twente | Free transfer | [12] | |||
| Bayern Munich | Free transfer | [13] | |||
| Inter Milan | Free transfer | ||||
| Bayern Munich | €18,500,000 | [14] | |||
| Groningen | €450,000 | [15] | |||
| Gorica | €1,000,000 | [16] | |||
| Borussia Dortmund | €31,000,000 | [17] | |||
| Manchester United | €57,370,000 | [18] | |||
| Lyon | €4,200,000 | [19] | |||
| Torino | €9,000,000 | [20] | |||
| Amiens | Undisclosed | [21] | |||
| FC Utrecht | Free transfer | [22] | |||
| Manchester United | €95,000,000 | [23] | |||
| Bayern Munich | Free transfer | [24] | |||
 Fluminense FC | Undisclosed | [25] | |||
 Elche | Free transfer | [26] | |||
| FC Utrecht | Undisclosed | [27] | |||
| Start date | Player | From | End date | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independiente del Valle | Undisclosed | [28] | |||||
| Pisa | €1,000,000 | [29] | |||||
| Sevilla | €4,000,000 | [30] |
| Start date | Player | To | End date | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosenborg | Undisclosed | [31] | |||||
| ADO Den Haag | Undisclosed | [32] | |||||
| FC Twente | Undisclosed | [33] | |||||
| Copenhagen | Undisclosed | [34] | |||||
| Trabzonspor | €150,000 | [35] | |||||
| Excelsior Rotterdam | Undisclosed | [36] | |||||
| Aberdeen | Undisclosed | [37] |
New manager Alfred Schreuder,[38] arriving from Club Brugge, began the new season on 22 June 2022. On 1 June, several Dutch media wrote that assistant coach Winston Bogarde would no longer be part of the technical staff of the club in the upcoming season.[39] On 7 June, Ajax announced that main shirt sponsor Ziggo would extend their sponsorship on the back of the shirt with the name of their fibre optic cable name ‘GigaNet’.[40] On 17 June, Dutch media confirmed that Matthias Kaltenbach would replace Bogarde as assistant coach and come to Ajax for a minimal transfer fee.[41] On 19 June, Ajax released their new home kit for the new season.[42]
Ajax had a training camp in De Lutte, Netherlands from 27 June to 3 July. There they hosted two friendly matches against German sides SV Meppen and SC Paderborn. On 1 July the club announced two further friendlies against Lokomotiva Zagreb from Croatia and KAS Eupen from Belgium, which were played behind closed doors. There was then a training camp in Austria from 17 to 23 July where Ajax played against Red Bull Salzburg on 19 July in Saalfelden. The match against Eintracht Frankfurt on 23 July though, was cancelled due to several COVID-19 cases in the Ajax-squad. On 26 July there was a charity game against the Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk, the proceeds from which were provided to various charities and organisations supporting Ukrainian refugees.[43] [44] [45] [46]
Ajax had a mid-season training camp in Marbella, Spain. From 28 November until 3 December, without the players that were on the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and with Jong Ajax players. The last day there was a training match against Blackburn Rovers.
See main article: 2022–23 Eredivisie.
The league fixtures were announced on 14 June 2022.
See main article: 2022–23 KNVB Cup.
See main article: 2022 Johan Cruyff Shield.
See main article: 2022–23 UEFA Champions League.
The draw for the group stage was held on 25 August 2022.[47]
See main article: 2022–23 UEFA Europa League.
See main article: 2022–23 UEFA Europa League knockout phase.
The knockout round play-offs draw was held on 7 November 2022.
|-|colspan="14"|Players sold or loaned out after the start of the season:|-
| Rank | Name | Eredivisie | KNVB Cup | Johan Cruyff Shield | Champions League | Europa League | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | MF |  | align=left | Mohammed Kudus | 11 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 18 |
| 2 | 7 | FW | align=left | Steven Bergwijn | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 | |
| 3 | 9 | FW | align=left | Brian Brobbey | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| 4 | 10 | FW |  | align=left | Dušan Tadić | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 5 | 23 | FW | align=left | Steven Berghuis | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | |
| 6 | 6 | MF | align=left | Davy Klaassen | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | |
| 7 | 8 | MF | align=left | Kenneth Taylor | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
| 8 | 4 | MF |  | align=left | Edson Álvarez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | 15 | DF | align=left | Devyne Rensch | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| 19 | DF | | align=left | Jorge Sánchez | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| 11 | 2 | DF | align=left | Jurriën Timber | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 11 | FW | | align=left | Antony | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 18 | FW |  | Lorenzo Lucca | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 14 | 3 | DF |  | align=left | Calvin Bassey | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 35 | FW | align=left | Francisco Conceição | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Own goal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Totals | 86 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 109 | |||||
| Rank | Name | Eredivisie | KNVB Cup | Johan Cruyff Shield | Champions League | Europa League | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | GK |  | Gerónimo Rulli | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | |
| 2 | 22 | GK | Remko Pasveer | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||
| Total | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | |||||