Ayoub Oufkir

Right Midfielder - AZ
18 Oct 2026
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Marked for Ayoub Oufkir

9 Edition

The AZ Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Ayoub Oufkir runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market28 Sep 2026

Calvin Stengs hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AZ can pretend not to have heard.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Troy Parrott in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AZ this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Kees Smit falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match26 Sep 2026

AZ come up short against De Graafschap

De Graafschap left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Wouter Goes

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom28 Sep 2026

Inquest at AZ

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Loan watch28 Sep 2026

Kenneth Brobbey has seen enough of FC Lorient

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at AZ, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad28 Sep 2026

When it matters, Calvin Stengs plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The AZ Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match19 Sep 2026

AZ take Helsingborg apart in Europe

3‑0. Nights like this are why clubs spend decades trying to qualify for this competition, and they arrive perhaps twice in that time. Everybody who was in the ground will describe it badly for years.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Mexx Meerdink scores twice — 8.77

Two goals and a mark of 8.77 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Ayoub Oufkir, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.68

A mark of 7.68 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match19 Sep 2026

Still nobody has beaten AZ

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at AZ

Jordy Clasie was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market21 Sep 2026

So close: Hobie Verhulst’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Utrecht moved on, Hobie Verhulst reports back to AZ, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Patati

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match19 Sep 2026

AZ get the job done against Club Brugge

A 1‑0 win over Club Brugge, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Troy Parrott left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Troy Parrott will call it something else in private.

In brief

5 Edition

The AZ Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Aug 2026

Calvin Stengs asks to leave AZ

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market31 Aug 2026

Eyes on Rome-Jayden Owusu-Oduro again

The phone has started ringing about Rome-Jayden Owusu-Oduro again, and this time the name on the line is Bayer Leverkusen. AZ are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ayoub Oufkir runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Troy Parrott in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AZ this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at AZ training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Calvin Stengs is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad31 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Denso Kasius

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denso Kasius, and the manager let it.

Squad31 Aug 2026

AZ pick somebody else ahead of Jeroen Zoet

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Seiya Maikuma was the difference for AZ

Marked 7.19. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Market31 Aug 2026

The shop window has Denso Kasius in it

AZ have let the market know Denso Kasius can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief