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| Full name | Ajax America Women Ajax Sportsklubben Fram | ||
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| Founded | mid-1970s | ||
| Stadium | Nansen Field | ||
| League | Women's Premier Soccer League | ||
| 2012 | 3rd, Pacific South Division | ||
Ajax America Women is an American women's soccer team, founded in the mid-1970s by Fred Van Soest. Fred Van Soest went to the Netherlands and spoke with the Amsterdam Football Club Ajax (AFC Ajax) and asked if he could use their name and logo for a US women's soccer team and they agreed. In 1985, Ajax women's team was the first women's team to play in international companion in Brazil; they took 2nd to West Germany.
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The team is now a member of the Women's Premier Soccer League, the second tier of women's soccer in the United States and Canada. The team plays in the South Division of the Pacific Conference, their home stadium being Nansen Field in the city of Rolling Hills Estates, California, 15 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. The team's colors are navy blue and white. Ajax women from America. During the 1980s, a student named Queen was an Ajax player and attended the University of California, Los Angeles. Queen thinks UCLA could give the women's soccer team varsity status without spending any money. According to her and volunteer coach Afshin Ghotbi, the only club sport at UCLA without a women's soccer team .While softball and baseball are gender-specific alternatives, the school offers both men's and women's teams in sports including basketball and tennis. Ajax recently[ when? ] represented the U.S. Soccer Federation at the "Little World Cup" tournament in Rio de Janeiro. Lou Kaufman, an engineer and aerospace program manager who played soccer at West Point and is now attending UCLA,[ as of? ] is also involved with the team.
