John Delaney ‘absolutely thrilled’ about new Uefa role

FAI chief executive John Delaney has been voted onto Uefa’s Executive Committee for the first time.

Delaney received the second highest number of votes with 48, two fewer than Sweden’s Karl-Erik Nilsson, as 11 contenders stood for election to fill eight vacancies on European football’s supreme executive body.

The six other successful candidates were former Juventus and Poland star Zbigniew Boniek, former Manchester United chief executive Daivd Gill, German FA president Reinhard Grindel, Italian FA director Michele Uva, Dutch FA president Michael van Praag, and Turkey’s Servet Yardimci.