Gabriele Gravina has been appointed as the UEFA First Vice President. Today in Belgrade, on the 49th UEFA Ordinary Congress, the FIGC President was confirmed as part of the Executive Committee for the next four years, receiving 48 votes and becoming the member with the second highest number of votes alongside the German Hans-Joachim Watzke, after the Dutchman Frank Paauw (49 votes). Straight after, during the Executive Committee, Gravina was nominated as the UEFA First Vice President. 

The federal President commented on the result: "I am happy and proud. This election is an extraordinary recognition of the important contribution offered by Italian football in the development of the sport we all love most. In the last four years, our credibility has grown progressively on a European level thanks to the choices made and the courageous and innovative policies that we are bringing forward and implementing for football to become even more fascinating, in line with an economic and financial point of view. The future of European football is built on everyday and we will continue to support this evolution. On a personal level, this election is a incredible satisfaction because it is the product of good political management, but also a brilliant level of relations and links created on an international level, which contributed in a decisive way to this incredible result. I want to thank President Ceferin for his vision and friendship as well as all of the delegates from the other Federations, who recognised have given the FIGC and myself this great responsibility". 

The UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin spoke in a press conference: "Gabriele Gravina is a brilliant footballing director and a great person. I trust him a lot, he is someone that loves football and has dedicated his whole life to football". 

UEFA JOURNEY. Gravina was elected as a member of the UEFA Executive Committee for the first time in April 2021, receiving 53 votes from a possible 55. Two years later, on 5 April 2023, he was elected as the Vice President. Some prestigious achievements included the awarding of EURO 2032 to Italy, which will be hosted alongside Turkey as well as that of the European Super Cup, which will take place on 13 August at the 'Friuli' in Udine. In addition, as President of the Club Licensing Commission, he created the new UEFA ruling about licensing for clubs and financial sustainability. As President of the Club Competitions Committee, he increased solidarity with clubs that do not participate in European Tournaments. 

CANDIDATES ELECTED TO THE UEFA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND FIFA BOARD

UEFA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (four year commitment)

Gabriele Gravina, Italy (re-elected)
Lise Klaveness, Norway
Marijan Kustić, Croatia
Ari Lahti, Finland
Armen Melikbekyan, Armenia
Frank Paauw, The Netherlands
Aivar Pohlak, Estonia
Hans-Joachim Watzke, Germany (re-elected)

UEFA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (two year commitment)

Rafael Louzán, Spain
Moshe Zuares, Israel

Claudius Schäfer was elected as the representative for the European Leagues in the UEFA Executive Committee for four years. 

FIFA BOARD (four year commitment)

Răzvan Burleanu, Romania (re-elected)
Georgios Koumas, Cyprus (re-elected)
Bernd Neuendorf, Germany (re-elected)
Dejan Savićević, Montenegro (re-elected)
Pascale Van Damme, Belgium