Structure
It was agreed that a transitional ECA Board would represent the ECA and its 16 founding members until the next general assembly meets at the end of the season, when elections for a new Executive Board will be held. The ECA Board will comprise eleven members, plus the four representatives appointed by the Executive Board to the UEFA Professional Football Strategy Council. The ECA will also provide half of the members of the UEFA Club Competitions Committee.
The transitional ECA Board was Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (chairman; Bayern Munich), Joan Laporta (vice-chairman; Barcelona), John F. McClelland (vice-chairman; Rangers), Umberto Gandini (vice-chairman; Milan), Peter Kenyon (Chelsea), Maarten Fontein (AZ) and Jean-Michel Aulas (Lyon).
On the last ECA General Assembly held on 10 September 2012, the board was confirmed in the following form: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (chairman; Bayern Munich), Umberto Gandini (first vice-chairman; A.C. Milan), Sandro Rosell (second vice-chairman; F.C. Barcelona), Michel Verschueren (third vice-chairman; Anderlecht), Evgeni Giner (CSKA Moscow), Andrea Agnelli (Juventus), Florentino Pérez (Real Madrid), David Gill (Manchester United), Maarten Fontein (AZ), Jean-Michel Aulas (Olympique Lyonnais), Theodoros Giannikos (Olympiacos FC), Diogo Brandão (Porto), Marko Vjetrovic (Partizan), Jakub Otava (AC Sparta Praha), and Ausrys Labinas (FK Ekranas).
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