Soccer-PSG's Al-Khelaifi elected to UEFA executive committee

Paris St Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi is set to join European soccer governing body UEFA's executive committee as one of two club representatives. The European Club Association (ECA) said the Qatari had been elected to replace Ivan Gazidis, the former Arsenal chief executive who has moved to Italy's AC Milan.

The other ECA seat is taken by Juventus president Andrea Agnelli. Al-Khelaifi's election still has to be ratified by the UEFA Congress at a meeting in Rome next week.

The Qatari is also chief executive of BeIN Media, which holds exclusive television rights in the Middle East to the major European leagues and international club and country tournaments. Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal investigation in 2017 into former FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke and Al-Khelaifi over World Cup broadcasting deals. Both men have denied wrongdoing and neither has been charged.

The UEFA executive committee is made up of the president and 16 other members elected by the Congress, as well as two ECA representatives and one from the European leagues. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Ken Ferris)