He claimed the move was "simply a part of the reform process" the organisation is attempting to undertake. 

Infantino was present at yesterday’s AFC Extraordinary Congress in Goa, which lasted just 26 minutes, where 42 of the voting 44 members raised a "No" card when President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa called for the agenda to be approved.

As a result, elections for the AFC’s three additional seats on the expanded Council, which replaced the Executive Committee under reforms initiated in the wake of FIFA’s corruption crisis, had to be called off.

Infantino admitted it could take a "couple of months" after the Council meets in Zurich on October 13 and 14 for the AFC to elect its Council representatives.

Shaikh Salman, who lost out to Infantino during the FIFA Presidential Election in February, said the vote from the Congress "sent a clear message" to world football’s governing body.

It came after FIFA banned Qatar Football Association vice-president Saoud Al-Mohannadi from standing for one of the available positions due to an ongoing Ethics Committee investigation.

Al-Mohannadi, who is alleged to have committed a series of ethics breaches, including duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting and general obligation to collaborate with an investigation, was considered one of the favourites.

He denies any wrongdoing.

FIFA has not revealed the exact reason for the probe but confirmed it was not related to the ongoing investigation into the bid processes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, won by Russia and Qatar respectively.

The body has ruled Al-Mohannadi ineligible, despite the probe into his alleged ethics breaches having not yet been completed.

The decision was thought to be behind the Congress’ choice to disagree with the agenda, demonstrating how the AFC had rebelled against FIFA.

"We are going through a reform process in FIFA, the confederations are going through a reform process as well," Infantino said.

"This takes discussions, this takes time, this takes meetings, postponement of meetings as well.

"This is simply part of a process soccer is going through these days."

The FIFA Council meeting in Zurich next month was due to be the first held under the new 36-member composition of the body.

It will still go ahead but without the full complement of Council members, with the deadline for further elections to be held due on Friday Friday (September 30).

"The mid-October meeting will happen with the members that are there,” the FIFA President added.

"Asia will seemingly elect their members a couple of months later.

"FIFA has a history of 112 years.

"Few months more or a few months less will not make a difference."

FIFA Taskforce for Women’s Football chair Moya Dodd of Australia, a co-opted member of the Executive Committee, was due to go up against AFC Executive Committee members Mahfuza Ahkter of Bangladesh and Han Un-Gyong of North Korea for the position of the AFC's female representative on the Council.

Iran's Ali Kafashian Naeni, Chinese Football Association secretary general Zhang Jian and AFC Governance Reform Taskforce member Zainudin Nordin of Singapore were bidding for the other two available slots for Asia.