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Nasser Al-Khelaifi, chairman of French soccer kings Paris Saint-Germain, is set to join the Uefa executive committee.
The European Club Association (ECA) says its board elected the Qatari to be one of its two delegates on the policy-making panel, meaning Al-Khelaifi’s position on the Uefa executive committee will now move forward be ratified next week in Rome.
Al-Khelaifi would be taking the Uefa ExCo spot vacated by former Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis, who became ineligible last month when he moved to AC Milan. Italian clubs are already represented by Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, the ECA chairman.
Al-Khelaifi is currently embroiled in criminal proceedings which were announced in Switzerland in 2017 into suspected bribery linked to Qatar-owned BeIN Media Group’s agreement with Fifa for some 2026 and 2030 World Cup broadcast rights. He denied wrongdoing and was later questioned about allegedly providing an Italian luxury villa for a Fifa official to use.
The appointment of the PSG chairman comes at a time when his club are investigation by Uefa over alleged breaches of the European governing body’s financial fair play (FFP) regulations in regard to transfer made in 2017. Having been initially by Uefa’s investigatory chamber – the committee voted four to three in PSG’s favour in June 2018 – in September the chairman of the Club Financial Control Body's (CFCB) investigatory chamber, Jose Narciso da Cunha Rodrigues, decided to refer the decision to the body's adjudicatory chamber.
Nasser Al-Khelaifi, chairman of French soccer kings Paris Saint-Germain, is set to join the Uefa executive committee.
The European Club Association (ECA) says its board elected the Qatari to be one of its two delegates on the policy-making panel, meaning Al-Khelaifi’s position on the Uefa executive committee will now move forward be ratified next week in Rome.
Al-Khelaifi would be taking the Uefa ExCo spot vacated by former Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis, who became ineligible last month when he moved to AC Milan. Italian clubs are already represented by Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, the ECA chairman.
Al-Khelaifi is currently embroiled in criminal proceedings which were announced in Switzerland in 2017 into suspected bribery linked to Qatar-owned BeIN Media Group’s agreement with Fifa for some 2026 and 2030 World Cup broadcast rights. He denied wrongdoing and was later questioned about allegedly providing an Italian luxury villa for a Fifa official to use.
The appointment of the PSG chairman comes at a time when his club are investigation by Uefa over alleged breaches of the European governing body’s financial fair play (FFP) regulations in regard to transfer made in 2017. Having been initially by Uefa’s investigatory chamber – the committee voted four to three in PSG’s favour in June 2018 – in September the chairman of the Club Financial Control Body's (CFCB) investigatory chamber, Jose Narciso da Cunha Rodrigues, decided to refer the decision to the body's adjudicatory chamber.
