UEFA Executive Committee approves new UEFA service company

124 – UEFA Events SA to manage all business and event operations

During the second day of its meeting in Madeira, Portugal, and following the submission of a detailed business plan, the UEFA Executive Committee approved the creation of a new UEFA service company, called UEFA Events SA.

UEFA Events SA will act as a wholly-owned subsidiary of UEFA and has been created to manage and handle UEFA’s commercial and event operations.

The UEFA Executive Committee already appointed David Taylor as the Chief Executive of the new company at its previous meeting held in Nyon, on 15 September, 2009.

In other business, the UEFA Executive Committee today received an update on the situation regarding betting irregularities on matches across Europe, in the light of the recent events and the current investigation by German police still ongoing in several countries. The
Executive Committee received details on the scope of the UEFA Betting Fraud Detection System which monitors some 29,000 matches across Europe, including all UEFA competition matches as well as all first and second division, and national cup matches across all 53 member associations.

Finally, the UEFA Executive Committee confirmed that the number of host cities in Ukraine for UEFA EURO 2012™ would be four (see media release 123).

The next meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee will take place in Valletta, Malta on 28 and 29 January, 2010.