On this day in 1900, three men, Floris Stempel, Han Dade and Carel Reeser formed AFC Ajax in Amsterdam.
The new football club was named after the Greek hero Ajax, a cousin of Achilles and one who fought in the Trojan War.
Ajax’s beginnings were spent in the second division of Dutch football. Then in 1911, under the tutelage of Jack Kirwan, the club gained promotion to the first division where they were forced to abandon their red and white stripes kit as Sparta Rotterdam wore the same kit combination, and adopt their iconic jersey that has a vertical red stripe down the middle with white shorts.