| Club: | AFC Ajax |
| Season: | 2024–25 |
| Chrtitle: | CEO |
| Chairman: | Menno Geelen (interim) |
| Owner: | AFC Ajax N.V. |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Francesco Farioli[1] |
| Stadium: | Johan Cruyff Arena |
| League: | Eredivisie |
| League Result: | 2nd |
| Cup1: | KNVB Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Second round |
| Cup2 Result: | League phase |
| League Topscorer: | Davy Klaassen (6) |
| Season Topscorer: | Chuba Akpom Mika Godts Davy Klaassen Kenneth Taylor Bertrand Traoré Wout Weghorst (6 each) |
| Highest Attendance: | 54,831 (vs PSV, 2 November 2024 Eredivisie) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 53,359 (vs Willem II, 27 October 2024 Eredivisie) |
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| Largest Win: | 5–0 (vs Fortuna Sittard (H) 18 September 2024 Eredivisie) |
| Largest Loss: | 0–2 (vs Real Sociedad (A) 28 November 2024 UEFA Europa League) |
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| Prevseason: | 2023–24 |
| Nextseason: | 2025–26 |
The 2024–25 season is the 125th season in the history of Ajax, and their 69th consecutive season in the Dutch top flight.[2] The club is participating in the Eredivisie, KNVB Cup and UEFA Europa League.
| Date | Player | Transferred from | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 June 2024 | DF |  Jorthy Mokio | Gent | Undisclosed | [3] | |
| 10 July 2024 | FW |  Daniel Skaarud | Lillestrøm | Undisclosed | [4] | |
| 15 July 2024 | FW |  Bertrand Traoré | Villarreal | Free transfer | [5] | |
| 29 August 2024 | FW |  Wout Weghorst | Burnley | €2,300,000 | [6] | |
| 17 September 2024 | MW | Davy Klaassen | Inter Milan | Free transfer | [7] |
| Date | Player | Transferred to | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 May 2024 | GK | Sten Kremers | De Graafschap | Free transfer | [8] | |
| 5 June 2024 | FW | Francisco Conceição | Porto | €10,500,000 | [9] | |
| 19 June 2024 | GK | Tom de Graaff | Utrecht | Undisclosed | [10] | |
| 1 July 2024 | FW |  Georges Mikautadze | Lyon | €13,000,000 | [11] | |
| 4 July 2024 | DF |  Jorge Sanchez | Cruz Azul | €3,000,000[12] | [13] | |
| 10 July 2024 | MF | Gabriel Misehouy | Girona | Free transfer | [14] | |
| 11 July 2024 | DF | Mateja Milovanović | Heerenveen | Free transfer | [15] | |
| 21 July 2024 | GK | Tommy Setford | Arsenal | Undisclosed | [16] | |
| 31 July 2024 | DF | Ar'jany Martha | Beerschot | Free transfer | [17] | |
| 11 August 2024 | GK |  Gerónimo Rulli | Marseille | €4,000,000 | [18] | |
| 26 August 2024 | DF | Olivier Aertssen | PEC Zwolle | €150,000 | [19] | |
| 30 August 2024 | MF | Silvano Vos | Milan | €3,000,000 | [20] | |
| 2 September 2024 | FW | Steven Bergwijn | Al-Ittihad | €21,000,000 | [21] |
| Date | Player | To | End date | Fee | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2024 | DF | Tristan Gooijer | PEC Zwolle | 30 June 2025 | Undisclosed | [23] | |
| 17 August 2024 | DF | Borna Sosa | Torino | 30 June 2025 | Undisclosed | [24] | |
| 20 August 2024 | DF | Jakov Medić | VfL Bochum | 30 June 2025 | Undisclosed | [25] | |
| 29 August 2024 | MF |  Naci Ünüvar | Espanyol | 30 June 2025 | Undisclosed | [26] | |
| 31 August 2024 | FW | Carlos Forbs | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 30 June 2025 | €2,500,000 | [27] |
On 23 May, Ajax signed the contract with new manager Francesco Farioli. His new assistant managers wil be Daniele Cavalletto, Dave Vos and Felipe Sanchez Mateos. Jelle ten Rouwelaar was signed as the new goalkeeping coach. Furthermore, Osman Kul is a new video analyst and new fitness coach is Callum Walsh, in the beginning of preseason together with Allesandro Schoenmaker.
On 31 May, the new away kit for the new season and training range was released; Ajax Away: A Work of Amsterdam. [28] [29]
On 19 June, Ajax and Ziggo extended their sponsorship contract by two seasons until 2029. On the same day, Ajax appointed Nynke Hagen as a cultural manager.[30] [31]
On July 4, VI reported that Manchester United wanted to sign goalkeeping coach Jelle ten Rouwelaar. A day later, the media reported that Ten Rouwelaar had left the club; Manchester United had paid €100,000 for him.[32]
The home shirt of this season together with a pre-match shirt were introduced on Friday July 5, the morning of the first practice game: Home is Here.[33]
On July 8, a new goalkeeping coach Jarkko Tuomisto was reported in the media. He had worked with Farioli at previous clubs.[34]
Ajax start the new season with a new manager, Francesco Farioli. Farioli's first day at Ajax from the new season was 12 July.[35] A large part of the Ajax squad started on Wednesday 19 June, with the first tests and training methods at De Toekomst.[36] The manager's first field training took place on Thursday, June 20. This was without players that had international games and were at Euro 2024 and Copa America 2024. On Friday, 28 July the manager welcomed players that had international games earlier this month, but were not at Euro 2024. This included Anton Gaaei, Sivert Mannsverk, Benjamin Tahirović, Kristian Hlynsson and Christian Rasmussen.
Ajax played the first practice game against PEC Zwolle on Friday, 5 July on a rainy De Toekomst, ending in a 0–1 loss. Due to renovations and the replacement of grass, the game was played behind closed doors. Furthermore, there are two other practice games played across the Netherlands, against Sint-Truiden and Rangers. These games are open to public.
Also there will be a midweek training camp at the Wageningse Berg, Netherlands, from Monday July 15 to Friday July 19. During this week, two friendly matches will take place against Al-Wasl (open to public) and Olympiacos (behind closed doors). It is also the intention that an open training will be organized during the training camp.[37] [38] [39] [40]
The first official games will be on 25 July and 1 August for the second qualifying round of the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League against Vojvodina. The first Eredivisie league game will be on August 11, at home game against Heerenveen.[41] [42]
Ajax announced that, on Monday 5, there will be the Open Day event.[43]
See main article: 2024–25 Eredivisie.
The league fixtures were announced on 21 June 2024.
See main article: 2024–25 KNVB Cup.
See main article: 2024–25 UEFA Europa League.
See main article: 2024–25 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round.
The second qualifying round draw was held on 19 June 2024.
The third qualifying round draw was held on 22 July 2024.
The play–off round draw was held on 5 August 2024.
See main article: 2024–25 UEFA Europa League league phase. The draw for the league phase was held on 30 August 2024.
|-|colspan="14"|Players sold or loaned out after the start of the season:
| Rank | Name | Eredivisie | KNVB Cup | Europa League | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | FW | align=left | Chuba Akpom | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | |
| 8 | MF | align=left | Kenneth Taylor | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | ||
| 39 | FW | | align=left | Mika Godts | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | |
| 18 | MF | align=left | Davy Klaassen | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 20 | FW | | align=left | Bertrand Traoré | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
| 25 | FW | align=left | Wout Weghorst | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 28 | MF | align=left | Kian Fitz-Jim | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | |
| 8 | 4 | DF | align=left | Jorrel Hato | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| 9 | FW | align=left | Brian Brobbey | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 21 | MF | align=left | Branco van den Boomen | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 37 | DF | align=left | Josip Šutalo | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 12 | 23 | FW | align=left | Steven Berghuis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 38 | FW |  | align=left | Kristian Hlynsson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2 | DF | align=left | Devyne Rensch | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 3 | DF | align=left | Anton Gaaei | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 15 | DF | align=left | Youri Baas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Own goal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Totals | 31 | 0 | 25 | 56 | |||||
| Rank | Name | Eredivisie | KNVB Cup | Europa League | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | GK | Remko Pasveer | 5 | 0 | 6 | 11 | ||
| 2 | 40 | GK | Diant Ramaj | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 3 | 12 | GK | Jay Gorter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 6 | 0 | 6 | 12 | |||||