Gabriele Gravina

Gabriele Gravina became president of the Italian Football Association (FIGC) in October 2018, and was re-elected for a second term in 2021.

Gravina has considerable experience in football and, notably, was president of Castel di Sangro between 1984 and 1996. The team from a village of around 5,000 inhabitants famously earned five promotions in ten years to reach Serie B.

In 2005, he was elected as President of Lega Pro, the third Italian tier, a role he remained in until October 2018. "I want football for young people, which isn’t gender-sensitive, with rules in place, played in functional set-ups, which take technology into account," the lawyer and university professor said upon his appointment as FIGC president. He was elected as a member of the UEFA Executive Committee in April 2021.