
Only during the 1997/98 season did Ajax start better. With then coach Morten Olsen Ajax managed to grab 30 points from 10 games; Ajax actually won the first eleven matches during that season. In the last ten seasons Ajax was in first place after ten games; this ended up in winning three championship.
Only PSV Eindhoven did better than the current Ajax formation in the last ten years. During the 1999/2000 season PSV grabbed 28 points from ten games with coach Erik Gerets