The AFCA Supportersclub and the F-side are calling on Ajax fans to come to Amsterdam after all when the club wins the national championship on Wednesday in the home match against sc Heerenveen. The supporter groups thus ignore the order of mayor Femke Halsema. She previously banned a celebration on Museumplein and the following party due to a lack of security guards in the capital.
Due to the situation, the official ceremony and the championship party are planned in the Johan Cruijff ArenA, when Ajax puts its closest pursuer PSV at an unbridgeable distance. The team from Amsterdam is assured of a title with a victory over Heerenveen. In any other result, the result of PSV in the home match against NEC is important. Halsema’s decision is a thorn in the side of Ajax’s supporter groups; they call on fans to come to Leidseplein or the stadium, even if they do not have a match ticket.
Before the match pre party and after the match the after party. See you at Leidseplein. PS: If you don’t have a card, you can also watch the match on Leidseplein or other famous places in the city or around the stadium. pic.twitter.com/hc6bSBVnZV
— AFCA Supporters Club (@AFCASC) May 10, 2022
There is talk of a pre-party in the city and a full party around Leidseplein when the championship is officially in. The appeal of the supporter groups is at odds with Halsema’s decision. The mayor of Amsterdam canceled a celebration in the city center due to a lack of security personnel. After the announcement of the decision, Halsema said he was ‘covered with threats and name-calling’. Minister Dilan Yesilgöz (Justice and Security) and general director Edwin van der Sar of Ajax spoke out against the threats.
Halsema made it clear in a statement on Instagram that she would rather have opted for a celebration in the city herself. “In 2019, after many years, it was finally possible again: the Ajax celebration on the Museumplein,” she writes. “We wanted to repeat that this season. We called countless companies. There is a major shortage of security personnel throughout the Netherlands. And to great chagrin, we had to decide together with Ajax that we could not organize the ceremony safely. Since we sent this message to “I have been personally bombarded with threats and name-calling. I rarely respond to that. Now I would like to ask urgently: hold back! I am also in favor of celebrating sporting successes in a big way.”
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