# 2023–24 AZ Alkmaar season

The 2023–24 season was AZ Alkmaar's 57th season in existence and second consecutive season in the Eredivisie. They also competed in the KNVB Cup and the UEFA Europa Conference League.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 1 February 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | AUS | Mathew Ryan |
| 2 | DF | JPN | Yukinari Sugawara |
| 3 | DF | NED | Wouter Goes |
| 4 | DF | NED | Bruno Martins Indi (captain) |
| 5 | DF | POR | Alexandre Penetra |
| 6 | MF | POR | Tiago Dantas (on loan from Benfica) |
| 8 | MF | NED | Jordy Clasie (vice-captain) |
| 9 | FW | GRE | Vangelis Pavlidis |
| 10 | MF | NED | Dani de Wit |
| 11 | FW | GHA | Ibrahim Sadiq |
| 12 | GK | NED | Hobie Verhulst |
| 13 | GK | NED | Sem Westerveld |
| 14 | MF | SRB | Kristijan Belić |
| 15 | FW | NED | Ruben van Bommel |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | MF | NED | Sven Mijnans |
| 18 | DF | NOR | David Møller Wolfe |
| 19 | FW | NED | Myron van Brederode |
| 20 | GK | NED | Rome-Jayden Owusu-Oduro |
| 21 | FW | NED | Ernest Poku |
| 22 | DF | NED | Maxim Dekker |
| 23 | FW | SWE | Mayckel Lahdo |
| 24 | MF | NED | Lewis Schouten |
| 25 | DF | NED | Riechedly Bazoer |
| 27 | DF | POR | Gonçalo Esteves (on loan from Sporting) |
| 28 | FW | NED | Lequincio Zeefuik |
| 30 | DF | NED | Denso Kasius |
| 34 | DF | NED | Mees de Wit |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | NED | Zico Buurmeester (at PEC Zwolle until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | NED | Kenzo Goudmijn (at Excelsior until 30 June 2025) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | NED | Peer Koopmeiners (at Almere City until 30 June 2024) |
| — | FW | NED | Mexx Meerdink (at Vitesse until 30 June 2025) |
| — | FW | DEN | Jens Odgaard (at Bologna until 30 June 2024) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| DF | Alexandre Penetra | Famalicão | €4,200,000 | 24 July 2023 |
| FW | Ibrahim Sadiq | BK Häcken | €4,000,000 | 1 September 2023 |
| MF | Kristijan Belić | FK Partizan | €4,000,000 | 13 January 2024 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| FW | Yusuf Barası | Adana Demirspor | Undisclosed | 26 August 2023 | |
| DF | Pantelis Chatzidiakos | Cagliari | €2,000,000 | 1 September 2023 | |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Eredivisie | 13 August 2023 | 19 May 2024 | Matchday 1 | 4th | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 70 | 39 | +31 | 055.88 |
| KNVB Cup | 20 December 2023 | 7 February 2024 | Second round | Quarter-finals | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 033.33 |
| UEFA Europa Conference League | 10 August 2023 | 14 December 2023 | Third qualifying round | Group stage | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 15 | −1 | 040.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 47 | 24 | 11 | 12 | 90 | 61 | +29 | 051.06 |
Source: Soccerway

### Eredivisie
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 2 | Feyenoord | 34 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 92 | 26 | +66 | 84 | Qualification for the Champions League league stage |
| 3 | Twente | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 69 | 36 | +33 | 69 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round |
| 4 | AZ | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 70 | 39 | +31 | 65 | Qualification for the Europa League league stage |
| 5 | Ajax | 34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 74 | 61 | +13 | 56 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round |
| 6 | NEC | 34 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 68 | 51 | +17 | 53 | Qualification for the European competition play-offs |
* ↑ The 2023–24 KNVB Cup winners qualified for the Europa League league stage. Since the cup winners (Feyenoord) qualified based on league position, the Europa League spot was passed to the fourth-placed team.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| Ground | H | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A |
| Result | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | D | L | W | D | L | W | L | L | D | D | L | D | W | W | D | W | W | W | L | |
| Position | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Points | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 36 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 46 | 49 | 52 | 52 | |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were unveiled on 30 June 2023.

### KNVB Cup

AZ entered the KNVB Cup in the second round; the draw was made on 4 November 2023. On 21 December 2023, the draw was made for the round of 16. The draw for the quarter-finals was made on 20 January 2024.

### UEFA Europa Conference League
#### Third qualifying round

The draw for the third qualifying round was held on 24 July 2023.

#### Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 7 August 2023.

#### Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 1 September 2023.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | AVL | LEG | AZ | ZRI |
| 1 | Aston Villa | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 13 | Advance to round of 16 | — | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| 2 | Legia Warsaw | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 12 | Advance to knockout round play-offs | 3–2 | — | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| 3 | AZ | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | −5 | 6 | | 1–4 | 1–0 | — | 1–0 |
| 4 | Zrinjski Mostar | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 4 | | 1–1 | 1–2 | 4–3 | — |