According to CONCACAF deputy general secretary Jurgen Mainka, talks on who they might opt for as their preferred replacement for banned FIFA President Sepp Blatter were “not on the agenda”.

Asian Football Confederation President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Jordanian Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino and Frenchman Jérôme Champagne all presented their case for the top job at world football’s governing body at the meeting.

South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale, widely expected to pull out of the race ahead of the election at the Extraordinary Congress in Zurich on February 26, opted not to attend.

Mainki did, however, claim CONCACAF could choose their preferred candidate on February 25 at their Extraordinary Congress, just one day before FIFA’s 209 Member Associations will elect a new President.

“Part of the agenda today did not include talking about the FIFA candidates, again the focus of these meetings were the FIFA reforms and the CONCACAF reforms,” Mainka said.

“We spoke about the FIFA statutes.

“Because of all of the nations coming together, four of the [candidates] asked us if they could present.

“They came in last night and they presented their platforms and we allowed them that window.

“We do have an extraordinary congress the day before the election so something could happen there, but I’m not privy to that.”

CONCACAF Presidential candidate Victor Montagliani of Canada claimed the body should let their members decide for themselves who they wanted to replace Sepp Blatter as President of FIFA.

He added that publicly backing one of the five runners is “first and foremost the wrong thing to do”.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has already pledged its support to Shaikh Salman, recently accused by Prince Ali of failing to protect his players during anti-Government protests in Bahrain in 2011, where athletes were allegedly tortured for participating in the demonstration.

UEFA, meanwhile, remain firmly behind Infantino, who also has the backing of the South American Football Confederation.

Shaikh Salman’s campaign has been overshadowed by the torture allegations, which he strongly denies, and he has now been forced to dismiss claims of involvement in a scam which saw his Bahraini team play a friendly Togo side reportedly full of players who were not from the African country's Football Association.

Convicted match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal has been accused of being involved with organising the match, which Bahrain won 3-0 in controversial circumstances as they had five goals ruled out for offside.

That raised suspicion that the match was fixed but Shaikh Salman, then the President of the Bahrain Football Association, denied any wrongdoing.

“We did not know,” he told Sky News.

“When somebody brings you the Togo national team you won't know the team.

“How would I know the players?

“Once it was reported we cooperated with FIFA officials to know exactly what happened.

"FIFA took action against the agent."