AZ Alkmaar

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AZ Alkmaar
Full name	Alkmaar Zaanstreek
Nickname(s)	De Kaaskoppen (The Cheeseheads) De Kaasboeren (The Cheese Farmers)
Short name	AZ
Founded	10 May 1967
Ground	AFAS Stadion (Capacity: 19,478)
Chairman	René Neelissen
Head Coach	Pascal Jansen
Current League	Eredivisie
2024–25	Eredivisie, 5th
Website	Club home page
Current season

Alkmaar Zaanstreek, better known as AZ Alkmaar or simply AZ (aːˈzɛt), is a Dutch professional football club from Alkmaar and the Zaanstreek. The club plays in the Eredivisie, the highest professional football league in the Netherlands, and hosts home games at the AFAS Stadion.

AZ has won the Eredivisie twice, in 1980–81 and 2008–09. In the same season as their first league title, they also reached the UEFA Cup Final, which they lost to Ipswich Town. In addition, the team has won the KNVB Cup on four occasions.

Honours

Domestic

• Eredivisie

  • Winners (2): 1980–81, 2008–09
  • Runners-up (2): 1979–80, 2005–06
• Eerste Divisie
  • Winners (3): 1959–60¹, 1995–96, 1997–98
  • Runners-up (3): 1956–57¹, 1967–68, 1971–72
• Tweede Divisie
  • Runners-up (1): 1963–64¹
• KNVB Cup
  • Winners (4): 1977–78, 1980–81, 1981–82, 2012–13
  • Runners-up (1): 2006–07
• Johan Cruijff Shield
  • Winners (1): 2009
  • Runners-up (1): 2013

International

• UEFA Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1980–81
  • Semi-finalists (1): 2004–05
  • Quarter-finalists (3): 2006–07, 2011–12, 2013–14
• Amsterdam Tournament:
  • Winners (3): 1977, 1979, 1982
  • Runners-up (1): 1980

¹ As Alkmaar '54

External links

• AZ.nl Official website
• Official English website