The chief executive of the Organising Committee for the 2018 World Cup secured the last available UEFA seat as the only candidate.

He was voted in by acclamation. 

Russia did not have a FIFA Council member after Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko was barred from standing for re-election in March due to his role within the country's Government.

Mutko, also the President of the Russian Football Union (RFU), is a former Sports Minister.

Sorokin had previously claimed it is important for the nation to have a member of the Council.

He was elected to the Board of the RFU in June, a move that was seen as a boost to his FIFA hopes.

UEFA, the European governing body, was forced to hold an Extraordinary Congress in Nyon in Switzerland to elect their last FIFA Council member after Iceland's Geir Thorsteinsson pulled out of the running prior to April's Congress in Helsinki.

The decision from Thorsteinsson left UEFA with just three candidates for four positions on the body.

Hungary's Sandor Csyani, Cyprus' Costakis Koutsokoumnis and Montenegro's Dejan Savicevic were all elected unopposed in the Finnish capital.

Sorokin has now completed UEFA's eight-strong contingent on the 37-member FIFA Council.

UEFA do have the power to allow its Executive Committee to organise a ballot for such an election but FIFA's statutes require a four-month campaign that allows time to conduct eligibility checks on potential candidates.

It comes a week after axed FIFA Governance Committee chairman Miguel Maduro claimed FIFA President Gianni Infantino attempted to block the decision to ban Mutko from standing for the governing body's ruling Council.

In an appearance before the British Government's Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on September 13, Maduro accused Infantino of trying to exert "undue influence" on him.

The former Portuguese Government Minister, controversially replaced as the chairman of the Governance Committee in May, claimed the FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura warned him the move to bar Mutko from the Council would have a disastrous impact on Infantino's Presidency and the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

"In that meeting, the secretary general made clear that it was extremely problematic - more than that - she said that we needed to find a solution to declare Mr Mutko eligible because, otherwise, the Presidency itself would be in question; the World Cup would be a disaster - that was her view - and, as a consequence, the continued presidency of Mr Infantino would also be in question," Maduro told the Select Committee.

Elsewhere, the Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) has welcomed a new Memorandum of Understanding signed by the UEFA Executive Committee today.

Among other things, the deal grants one full member position on the Committee to a representative of the EPFL.

The EPFL will now nominate a representative for the role, which will then require ratification at the next UEFA Congress, due to be held on February 26 in Slovakia.

"This is the first day of a new era for professional football in Europe," said EPFL chairman Lars-Christer Olsson.

"EPFL and UEFA are committed to work together to improve the governance of our game.

"As the organisers of club competitions at domestic level we look forward with enthusiasm to sharing our expertise and knowledge with UEFA and other stakeholders to work and solve together the issues and challenges that confront professional football today."