ECA: "2022 is the year we will start to achieve our enormous potential" (N. Al-Khelaïfi, chairman)

"If 2021 was a year for ECA to find unity and renewed purpose, 2022 is the year we will start to achieve our enormous potential - and we couldn’t have started the year in better fashion," said Nasser Al-Khelaïfi (QAT), chairman of the ECA, during his opening speech at the general assembly of the European Club Association in Vienna (AUT) on 28/03/2021.

"Thanks to you, ECA is now positioned in its rightful place as the central voice shaping the future of our clubs, and at the very heart of European football," said Al-Khelaïfi, who is also president of Paris Saint-Germain (Ligue 1 Uber Eats).

"I look out into the audience, and I am sincerely emotional. This is the first time the European Commission, the IOC, UEFA, CONMEBOL and CAF are all here together with us and we are truly honoured. This is one of our re-energised goals at ECA, to work more with all our stakeholders, both existing and new," said the body's chairman.

During the ECA general assembly in Geneva (SUI) on 06/09/2021, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi listed "five strategic priorities to strengthen European football:
• 1) Financial…