Ajax and coach Steijn part ways: worst points average since the 1950s

Second to last in the table

“Of course it is a crisis and I am very disappointed. But I feel the trust of my players and the technical staff in the club,” said Maurice Steijn after Ajax Amsterdam’s 3-4 defeat at FC Utrecht and their slide to second-to-last place in the Eredivisie on Sunday. A day later, the Dutch record champions announced that they were separating from the trainer who had only been hired at the start of the season. Initially, Steijn’s previous assistant Hedwiges Maduro will act as head coach.

Ajax had agreed with Steijn that he would resign from his position, said the capital city residents. With a points average of 0.91, the 49-year-old former coach of Sparta Rotterdam, where he worked successfully, has the worst score at Ajax since the Eredivisie was founded in the 1950s. The decisive factor for this is at least ten competitive games as Ajax head coach. Steijn was given eleven games.

There was a big upheaval in the Amsterdam team in the summer. Around a dozen new players came for 109.3 million euros, and in return the club also earned 156.4 million euros through player transfers. The club parted ways with then sports director Sven Mislintat at the end of September. It was also about a possible conflict of interest in the transfer of former Stuttgart player Borna Sosa to Amsterdam.

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