Sjaak Swart

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Sjaak Swart

| image = Sjaak-swart-1336939869.jpg

| upright = 0.9

| caption = Swart in 2011

| full_name = Jesaia Swart

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|7|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = Muiderberg, Netherlands

| height = 1.75 m{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

| position = Winger

| youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = OVVO

| youthyears2 = |youthclubs2 = Amsterdam

| youthyears3 = |youthclubs3 = Ajax

| years1 = 1956–1973 |clubs1 = Ajax |caps1 = 461 |goals1 = 170

| nationalyears1 = 1960–1972 |nationalteam1 = Netherlands |nationalcaps1 = 31 |nationalgoals1 = 10

}}

Jesaia Swart (born 3 July 1938), commonly known as Sjaak Swart, is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger for Ajax. During his career at Ajax, he amassed a total of almost 600 matches, a record for the club.

Biography

Swart is Jewish{{cite news|last1=Buchheister|first1=Hendrik|title=Football: Why Tottenham and Ajax Fans Have a Jewish Identity|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/football-why-tottenham-and-ajax-fans-have-a-jewish-identity-a-926095.html|accessdate=7 January 2016|work=Der Spiegel|date=4 October 2013}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=VC1aclsVRDgC&dq=Sjaak+Swart&pg=PT208 Ajax, the Dutch, the War: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest ... - Simon Kuper] and was born in Muiderberg, a fishing village about 20 kilometers east of Amsterdam.{{cite news|last1=Quixano|first1=Jordi|title=Escribimos parte de la historia del fútbol|trans-title=We wrote part of the history of football|url=http://deportes.elpais.com/deportes/2014/11/02/actualidad/1414964276_875346.html|accessdate=7 January 2016|work=El País|date=2 November 2014|language=Spanish}}[https://thesefootballtimes.co/2015/08/23/sjaak-swart-ajax-legend/ "Sjaak Swart: the forgotten genius of an Ajax legend"] His Jewish fisherman father sold herring at the market. As a child, he and his father concealed themselves as non-Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945, hiding from Germans and Dutch colluders, who rounded up any Jews; nearly 75 per cent of the Dutch Jewish population was killed in those years.

Nicknamed Mr. Ajax, he played for Ajax a total of almost 600 matches, a record for the club, starting in 1956.[https://books.google.com/books?id=kCmyPwAACAAJ&q=Sjaak+Swart Mister Ajax: de eeuwige jeugd van Sjaak Swart - Raymond Bouwman] He was part of their European Cup victories in 1971, 1972, 1973.

For the Netherlands national team, Swart earned 31 caps, scoring ten goals.{{cite web|author=Stokkermans, Karel|title=Sjaak Swart – International Appearances|website=RSSSF|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/swart-intl.html|date=5 February 2010}}

Career statistics

rowspan="2"\|Club !rowspan="2"\|Season !colspan="3"\|League !colspan="2"\|Cup !colspan="2"\|Europe !colspan="2"\|Total
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" \|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
rowspan="17"\|Ajax \|1956–57 \|rowspan="17"\|Eredivisie \|5	0	1	0	0	0	6	0
1957–58 \|19	3	0	0	2	0	21	3
1958–59 \|7	3	5	4	0	0	12	7
1959–60 \|34	18	0	0	0	0	34	18
1960–61 \|33	7	7	3	2	1	42	11
1961–62 \|33	5	2	1	10	4	45	10
1962–63 \|28	5	2	0	3	1	33	6
1963–64 \|30	12	5	0	1	0	36	12
1964–65 \|29	11	1	0	0	0	30	11
1965–66 \|30	10	4	3	0	0	34	13
1966–67 \|34	23	5	3	6	3	45	29
1967–68 \|32	11	7	1	6	2	45	14
1968–69 \|32	13	3	2	10	3	45	18
1969–70 \|31	13	6	1	10	6	47	20
1970–71 \|31	16	6	1	8	1	45	18
1971–72 \|33	11	5	3	9	3	47	17
1972–73 \|25	9	1	0	3	1	29	10
colspan="3"\|Career total !461	170	65	22	70	25	596	217