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Manchester United’s Ed Woodward appointed to Euro marketing group

Manchester United’s executive vice chairman Ed Woodward has been appointed chairman of the European Club Association marketing and communications working group.

The European Club Association (ECA) is the sole independent body directly representing football clubs at European level.

It replaces the G14 Group and the European Club Forum, both dissolved at the beginning of 2008. ECA was fully recognised by UEFA and FIFA in a formal memorandum of understanding, which was signed in January 2008.

As the representative of 214 clubs (drawn from every one of the 53 National Associations within UEFA), ECA regards itself as ‘the nuclear family of the football society.’

The association has the stated aim of promoting the interests of European club football.

According to its website, the ECF has a clear brief:

“To our member clubs, we offer services, representation and information and to the main stakeholders, we offer the know-how and experience from the daily life of football as a sport but also as a business. Throughout all our activities, we aim to be constructive and challenging in order to really deliver results so we can follow our motto and lead the way for football clubs in Europe”.

Mr Woodward was appointed to his new role at the ECF executive meeting in Lisbon.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Simon Malia .