Club facts: AZ Alkmaar

AZ Alkmaar
Formed: 1967
Nickname: Kaaskoppen (Cheeseheads)

UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) 
UEFA Cup: (1981)

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 2 (2009)
Dutch Cup: 4 (2013)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa Conference League unless indicated otherwise)
2022/23: semi-finals
2021/22: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Europa League qualifying play-offs)
2020/21: UEFA Europa League group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2019/20: UEFA Europa League round of 32
2018/19: UEFA Europa League second qualifying round
2017/18: did not take part in UEFA competition
2016/17: UEFA Europa League round of 32
2015/16: UEFA Europa League group stage
2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition
2013/14: UEFA Europa League quarter-finals

Records
UEFA club competition
Biggest home win
11-1: AZ v Differdange
14/09/77, UEFA Cup first round first leg

Biggest away win
0-5 twice, most recently v Astana
07/11/19, UEFA Europa League group stage

Heaviest home defeat
0-5: AZ v Anji
30/08/12, UEFA Europa League qualifying play-off second leg

Heaviest away defeat
7-1: Lyon v AZ
23/02/17, UEFA Europa League round of 32 second leg

UEFA Europa Conference League
Biggest home win
7-0: AZ v Dundee United
11/08/22, third qualifying round second leg

Biggest away win
0-4: Tuzla City v AZ
28/07/22, second qualifying round second leg

Heaviest home defeat
1-4: AZ v Aston Villa
26/10/23, group stage

Heaviest away defeat 
2-0 twice, most recently v Legia Warszawa
14/12/23, group stage