Substitutes

Before season 1957-58 it is not clear what the restrictions are exactly with respect to substitutions, but match reports make clear there was not (always) a restriction on the number of substitutes in a match, but that substitutes were only allowed if a player was injured, while there were also regular references that an opponent had to approve a substitution.

In the season 1957-58 the substitute rules changed so that only 1 field player and 1 goalkeeper were allowed to be substituted during a match, still only when they were injured. During a very short period there was an additional restriction, namely that players were only allowed to be substituted before the 44th minute. This extra restriction was soon removed after an incident where a player got injured and the 44th minute and was not allowed to be substituted by the referee in the 45th minute.

Only at the start of season 1967-68 the restriction that only injured players could be substituted was relaxed, making it possible to make tactica; substitutions. At that time the regulations for the FIFA and various country associations differ, as an example until season 1965-66 it was not allowed to make substitutions in the English leagues.

At the start of season 1969-70 the regulations of the Dutch soccer association became the same as the FIFA regulations, besides the goalkeeper it was now allowed to substitute two field players.

There was one more change at the start of season 1995-96 which got us to the situation we have now. It is allowed to substitute any three players (so the restriction that one has to be a goalkeeper has been removed).

Find below tables with the following statistics wrt the substitutes at Ajax in official matches: Most Made Substitutes, Most Often Substituted Out, Most Often Substituted In, Least Average Minutes on the Pitch and Most Goals After Substituted In.

Most Made Substitutes
Player Out Player In Number
Kasper Dolberg Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 15
Tscheu La Ling Simon Tahamata 12
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Kasper Dolberg 12
Lasse Schöne Donny van de Beek 11
Rob Witschge Bryan Roy 11
Kolbeinn Sigþórsson Danny Hoesen 11
Marc Overmars Peter van Vossen 11
Amin Younes Viktor Fischer 11
Stefan Pettersson Ronald de Boer 11
Arnold Mühren Richard Witschge 10
Piet Keizer Ruud Suurendonk 10
John Bosman Aron Winter 10
Markus Rosenberg Ryan Babel 10
Kennedy Bakırcıoğlu Dennis Rommedahl 10
Mauro Rosales Daniël de Ridder 10
Frank Arnesen Geert Meijer 9
Kasper Dolberg Mateo Cassierra 9
Derk Boerrigter Lorenzo Ebecilio 9
John van 't Schip Dennis Bergkamp 9
Darío Cvitanich Leonardo 9
Piet Keizer Arnold Mühren 9
Jari Litmanen Dean Gorré 9
Marco van Basten John van 't Schip 9
Vurnon Anita Miralem Sulejmani 9
Ricardo Kishna Anwar El-Ghazi 8
Arek Milik Richairo Živković 8
Nikos Machlas Zlatan Ibrahimović 8
Shota Arveladze Wamberto 8
Jari Litmanen Martijn Reuser 8
Zlatan Ibrahimović Nikos Machlas 8
Sjaak Swart Johnny Rep 8
Marko Pantelić Dennis Rommedahl 8
Lorenzo Ebecilio Aras Özbiliz 8
Rob Witschge Dennis Bergkamp 8
Tom de Mul Mauro Rosales 8
Jari Litmanen Nwankwo Kanu 8
Markus Rosenberg Angelos Charisteas 8
Most Often Substituted Out
Player Out Number
Lasse Schöne 89
Jari Litmanen 85
Tscheu La Ling 64
Piet Keizer 64
Ronald de Boer 63
Steven Pienaar 58
Wesley Sneijder 54
Urby Emanuelson 51
Hakim Ziyech 50
Siem de Jong 50
Miralem Sulejmani 49
Donny van de Beek 46
Kolbeinn Sigþórsson 46
Zlatan Ibrahimović 44
John Bosman 43
Edgar Davids 43
Stefan Pettersson 43
Bryan Roy 42
Richard Witschge 42
David Neres 42
Amin Younes 41
John van 't Schip 41
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 40
Danny Blind 40
Nikos Machlas 40
Gerald Vanenburg 40
Arnold Mühren 40
Kasper Dolberg 39
Frank Arnesen 39
Wamberto 38
Viktor Fischer 38
Sjaak Swart 38
Eyong Enoh 38
Marc Overmars 38
Johan Cruijff 37
Ryan Babel 37
Frank Rijkaard 36
Tijjani Babangida 36
Shota Arveladze 36
Rob Witschge 35
Dennis Bergkamp 35
Frank de Boer 34
Rafael van der Vaart 33
Mauro Rosales 33
Aron Winter 32
Vurnon Anita 32
Gabri 30
Derk Boerrigter 30
Most Often Substituted In
Player In Number
Siem de Jong 60
Lasse Schöne 52
Arnold Mühren 51
Arnold Scholten 49
Miralem Sulejmani 48
John van 't Schip 48
Dennis Rommedahl 47
Wamberto 47
Thulani Serero 46
Ryan Babel 46
Nordin Wooter 45
Nicolae Mitea 45
Dennis Bergkamp 45
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 44
Richard Witschge 43
John Bosman 42
Kasper Dolberg 40
Ronald de Boer 40
Leonardo 39
Nourdin Boukhari 39
Jari Litmanen 37
Ruud Suurendonk 37
Donny van de Beek 37
Ron Willems 35
Martijn Reuser 35
Bryan Roy 35
Kolbeinn Sigþórsson 34
Viktor Fischer 34
David Neres 33
Sonny Silooy 33
Geert Meijer 32
Benni McCarthy 32
Dani 32
Christian Eriksen 31
Nigel de Jong 30
Michel Kreek 30
Zlatan Ibrahimović 30
Least Average Minutes on the Pitch
Player Minutes per Match Matches
Dani de Wit 9.8 14
Richairo Živković 16.7 11
Aitze Bouma 21.7 14
Wilco van Buuren 25.5 11
Edgar Manucharyan 26.5 13
Niki Zimling 28 12
Daniel Cruz 29.3 14
Jurgen Ekkelenkamp 29.6 12
Mateo Cassierra 31.9 34
Brutil Hosé 31.9 20
Gerald Sibon 33.9 30
Dmitri Bulykin 35.5 26
Dave van den Bergh 37.3 14
Zakaria Labyad 38 23
Daniël de Ridder 38.4 35
Danny Hoesen 38.5 44
Noa Lang 39.5 13
Nicolás Lodeiro 39.7 28
Leonardo 39.9 52
Abdelhak Nouri 40.1 15
Iván Gabrich 40.5 11
Guido Pen 41.1 23
Aras Özbiliz 41.6 37
Ron Willems 41.8 52
Evander Sno 42 16
Ruud Kaiser 42.2 13
Mitchell Donald 42.2 17
Pius Ikedia 42.3 32
Vaclav Cerny 43.4 29
Martijn Reuser 44 58
Nicolae Mitea 44.3 75
Most Goals After Substituted In
Player Minutes per Goal Minutes Goals
Nikos Machlas 38.2 382 10
Cedric van der Gun 51.6 258 5
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 67 1005 15
Marco van Basten 70 490 7
Kolbeinn Sigþórsson 76.8 768 10
Benni McCarthy 78.7 787 10
Dmitri Bulykin 79 395 5
Stefan Pettersson 81 567 7
Shota Arveladze 82.2 822 10
Danny Hoesen 84.6 423 5
Patrick Kluivert 88 616 7
Kenneth Pérez 92 644 7
Gerald Vanenburg 96.3 578 6
Nourdin Boukhari 97 679 7
Zlatan Ibrahimović 104.1 937 9
Johnny Rep 106.8 854 8
Aron Winter 112.3 674 6
Peter Hoekstra 112.3 674 6
John Bosman 114.1 1369 12
Ryan Babel 117.3 1173 10
Dennis Rommedahl 127.2 1399 11
Mido 132 660 5
Kasper Dolberg 135.7 950 7
Dean Gorré 136.7 820 6
Ronald de Boer 150.1 1051 7
David Neres 153.6 768 5
Lasse Schöne 155.5 1244 8
Leonardo 156.4 1095 7
Ron Willems 160.8 804 5
Nicolae Mitea 160.9 1126 7
Ruud Suurendonk 162 1134 7
Dennis Bergkamp 177.9 1245 7
Siem de Jong 181 1267 7
Nordin Wooter 229.2 1146 5
Arnold Mühren 247.7 1734 7
Wamberto 266.8 1334 5