[8] The original competition was held at Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium, where Ajax played its international games until 1996.
[10] Fellow Dutch side AZ and English club Arsenal are the only other teams to have won the competition more than once.
[11] Feyenoord, Ajax's domestic rivals, are among a group of clubs to have won the tournament once,[3] while Belgium has produced the most individual winners, four, one more than England and Netherlands.
They were invited in 1984 and finished in fourth place as Atlético Mineiro became the first Brazilian club to lift the trophy.
The 2010 edition did not take place due to Ajax's involvement in the qualifying stages of the Champions League.