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 Celtic are making strides in Europe again and their Chief Executive, Peter Lawwell, has been elected onto the Executive Board of the European Club Association’s 19th General Assembly in Geneva. 162 clubs were represented at the election at the start of the new 2017-19 ECA membership cycle as 11 board members and four ECA representatives on UEFA’s Professional Football Strategy Council (PFSC) were up for election.
Lawwell was among the newly-elected ECA PFSC Members, with the others being Josep Maria Bartomeu (Barcelona), Ed Woodward (Manchester United) and Nasser Al-Khelaifi (Paris Saint-Germain).
Outgoing Chairman, German legend, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has been awarded an ECA Honorary Chairmanship as he made way for Andrea Agnelli, President of Juventus, after nine years of service since the ECA was founded in 2008. Agnelli was elected as the new ECA Chairman and will serve for the forthcoming two-year period.
The full ECA Executive Board for the 2017-19 period is as follows:
Chairman
Andrea Agnelli (Juventus)
1st Vice-Chairman
Pedro Lopez Jimenez (Real Madrid)
2nd Vice-Chairman
Edwin van der Sar (Ajax)
3rd Vice-Chairman
Dariusz Mioduski (Legia Warsaw)
4th Vice-Chairman
Aki Riihilahti (HJK Helsinki)
Members
Ed Woodward (Manchester United), Ivan Gazidis (Arsenal), Josep Maria Bartomeu, (Barcelona), Nasser Al-Khelaifi (Paris Saint-Germain), Jean-Michel Aulas (Olympique Lyonnais), Michael Gerlinger (Bayern Munich), Michael Verschueren (Anderlecht), Domingos Oliveira (Benfica), Anders Horsholt (Copenhagen) and Peter Lawwell (Celtic).
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