World Leagues Association: Luigi De Siervo elected president for four years, succeeding Richard Masters

Luigi De Siervo, CEO of Lega Serie A, has been elected president of World Leagues Association for a four-year term at the association’s general assembly in Prague (CZE) on 13 November 2026.

The Italian, who had become vice-chair of the WLA in June 2025, thus succeeds Richard Masters, chief executive of the Premier League, who was named vice-chair of the association alongside Don Garber (MLS).

For this new four-year cycle, the supervisory board of World Leagues Association goes from 12 to 14 member leagues (see composition below). Four new leagues are represented on this body of the organisation (Greece, Poland, Qatar and Egypt), while two (Switzerland and South Africa) are no longer part of it.

Among the decisions taken at the general assembly of the organisation, which has 51 member…