Servet Yardımcı
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
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Nationality: Turkish
Date of birth: 26 December 1957
Executive Committee member since: 2017
Servet Yardımcı studied economics at London Metropolitan University and is currently the chairman of Yardımcı Corporation, a company whose main field of activities are shipbuilding and ship ownership.
He played football at amateur level, and returned to the game as a football executive after becoming a board member at Turkish club Çaykur Rizespor AŞ. Elected as a member of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) executive committee for the first time in 2008, Yardımcı was the TFF first vice-president from February 2012 to April 2022, when he was appointed president on an interim basis until June of the same year.
He was elected to the UEFA Executive Committee at the Helsinki Congress in April 2017.