Irish Football Association (IFA) President David Martin has been elected to the FIFA vice-president role reserved for one of the four British associations at the UEFA Congress in Montreux.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has reiterated his warning that the European sports model is under threat due to "purely profit-oriented goals of commercial sports providers and investors" amid The Super League breakaway in football, which now appears to be in tatters.

"Change or be changed" is International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach's favourite mantra.

The UEFA Executive Committee will not make a decision on Bilbao, Dublin and Munich staging European Championship matches until Friday (April 23), as today's meeting was dominated by the seismic announcement that 12 football clubs are founding a breakaway league.

UEFA and FIFA have reacted furiously to a move from 12 European clubs to launch "The Super League" - a new competition outside of the existing football framework which would not respect traditional promotion-relegation models - and pledged to do everything in their power to stop it.

The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has been given the all-clear by the country’s Government to allow fans to attend matches at this year’s European Championship.

UEFA first vice-president Karl-Erik Nilsson is to serve another two years as head of the Swedish Football Association (SvFF) after being re-elected.

Four of the proposed host cities for this year's European Championship in men's football have been given until April 19 to offer UEFA more information on their plans for fans to attend matches, but the other eight venues have provided assurances that spectators will be permitted.

UEFA has moved its 2020-2021 Futsal Champions League Finals from Zagreb to Zadar following a request from Croatian authorities.

Dublin and Bilbao appear likely to lose the right to stage matches at football's European Championship this year because the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) have told UEFA they cannot guarantee minimum spectator levels at matches.

German voices have been among the loudest in the cyclical debate over whether the so-called smaller European nations should have to pre-qualify for FIFA World Cup qualification.

The host countries at this year's postponed European Championship will be able to set their own cap on the number of fans permitted to attend matches after the organisation removed its capacity limit during its latest Executive Committee meeting today.

UEFA is set to discuss lifting the maximum spectator limit of 30 per cent capacity at this year's postponed European Championship when it holds its latest Executive Committee meeting tomorrow.

Former UEFA President Michel Platini spent six hours in front of a Swiss prosecutor as a suspect in a corruption case before testifying as a witness in an investigation against FIFA boss Gianni Infantino.