Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise (French pronunciation: [asɔsjɑsjɔ̃ də la ʒœnɛs osɛʁwaz]), commonly known as AJ Auxerre or by the abbreviation AJA, is a French professional football club based in the commune of Auxerre in Burgundy.

Auxerre plays its home matches at the Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps, on the banks of the Yonne River.

Two years prior, Auxerre achieved its first major honour by winning the Coupe de France in 1994.

The club has most notably served as a springboard for several prominent French football players such as Eric Cantona, Laurent Blanc, Stéphane Guivarc'h, Philippe Mexès, Basile Boli, and Djibril Cissé, among others, who all became French internationals, with Blanc playing on the teams that won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000.

The club Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise was founded in 1905, by the abbot Ernest Abbé Deschamps.

The 1984–1985 season saw Auxerre in European competition for the first time in its history by participating in the UEFA Cup, albeit with an unfavourable first round draw with Sporting Clube de Portugal.

However, by virtue of the victory of Monaco in the Coupe de France, AJA also qualified for the UEFA Cup the year after.

The 1988–89 season saw AJA finish fifth in the league and reach the semi-finals of the Coupe de France before elimination by Marseille, the future winner of the event.

Auxerre beat successively Albanians Apolonia Fier, Finns RoPS and Olympiacos of Greece before being eliminated in the quarterfinals by Fiorentina.

During the summer of 1990, the AJA sold Basile Boli and recruited Enzo Scifo, Alain Roche and Zbigniew Kaczmarek.

That summer, the AJA sold Alain Roche and Jean-Marc Ferreri while recruiting Frank Verlaat and Gérald Baticle.

A fiercely contested second leg levelled the aggregate score, but Auxerre were finally eliminated on penalties.

AJA made progress in the league, with a third-place finish, but notably captured its first major trophy, the French cup.

Having made it past the lower division teams in the early rounds, AJA eliminated Nantes in the semifinals before winning 3-0 at the Parc des Princes in the final against Montpellier.

Although not resulting in promotion, the 2014–15 Ligue 2 season was better for the Burgundy based side, as they finished ninth in Ligue 2 and finishing runners-up in the 2015 Coupe de France final after losing to Paris Saint-Germain at the Stade de France in front of an attendance of 80,000.

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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.