Clubs to head to Manchester

Wednesday, 03. February 2010 - IndianFootball.Com reporter

European clubs are set to flock to the 2010 Soccerex European Forum to be held in Manchester on March 2/3.

A record number of clubs will join hundreds of other industry stakeholders at the Soccerex European Forum (2-3 March, Manchester). To date Soccerex has confirmed the participation of all twenty Premier League teams; thirty-one Coca-Cola Football League clubs and fifty mainland European football clubs will be present throughout the event.

The Soccerex European Forum is the place for all sponsors and service providers to engage with football clubs from around Europe via debate panels, structured networking sessions and social evenings.


With the European Club Association AGM coinciding with Europe’s premier football business event, this Soccerex Forum will attract many of the leading clubs from across Europe, including:

* AC Milan (Umberto Gandini, Organising Director)

* AJ Auxerre (Alain Dujon, President)

* AJ Auxerre (Baptiste Malherbe, Marketing and Commercial Director)

* Ajax Amsterdam (Henri van der Aat, Chief Commercial Officer)

* Ajax Amsterdam (Marcus Keane, Director of Business Development)

* APOEL FC (Ioannis Avgousti, Administration Manager)

* AS Roma (Andrea Caloro, Merchandising and Marketing Director)

* Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Wolfgang Holzäuser, Managing Director)

* Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Simon Pallmann, Assistant Manager)

* Besiktas JK (Semih Usta, Sports Director)

* Birkirkara FC (John Borg, Vice President)

* Budapest Honved FC (George Hemingway, Owner)

* CFC Zimbru Chisinau (Andrei Cecetov, President)

* CFR 1907 Cluj (Razvan Zamfir, Executive Director)

* Club Brugge KV (Filips Dhondt, General Manager)

* Djugårdens IF FF (Alf Johansson, CEO)

* FC Internazionale Milano (Ernesto Paolillo, Managing Director)

* FC Barcelona (Jose Rey Alvarez, International Business Development)

* FC Barcelona (Cristina Mora, VP International Business Development)

* FC Basel 1893 (Bernhard Heusler, Vice President)

* FC BATE Borisov (Mikhail Dzemiantsevich, General Director)

* FC BATE Borisov (Andrei Vashkievich, Head of Communication)

* FC Schalke 04 (Bodo Menze, International Relations Manager)

* FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk (Uladzmir Kucharau, President)

* FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk (Vadzim Filipovich, Director)

* Fenerbahçe SK (Sanem Atal Saral, Marketing Manager)

* Fenerbahçe SK (Turgut Acar, Foreign Affairs Director)

* Fenerbahçe SK (Aykut Kocaman, Sportive Director)

* Feyenoord Rotterdam (Mark Koevermans, Commercial Director)

* FK Austria Wien AG (Dietmar Kurzawa, M.A. Marketing Manager)

* FK Baku (Nariman Mehdiyev, Director)

* Galatasaray SK (Ahmet Raif Unuvar, Chief Executive)

* Galatasaray SK (Ebru Köksal, General Coordinator)

* Helsingborgs IF (Paul Myllenberg, Managing Director)

* Juventus FC (Marco Fassone, Chief Operating Officer)

* KKS Lech Poznan (Arkadiusz Kasprzak, Vice-president)

* KKS Lech Poznan (Piotr Rutkowski, Scout)

* KP Legia Warszawa (Marek Drabczyk, Member of the Board)

* Leva dia Ta llinn (Sergei Hohlov-Simon, Managing Director)

* MFK Ružomberok (Michal Mertinyák, Commercial Manager)

* Myllykosken Pallo-47 (Seppo Miettinen, Executive Director)

* Olympique de Marseille (Cédric Dufoix, International Relations Director)

* Olympique Lyonnais (Olivier Bernardeau, Commercial Director)

* Panathinaikos FC (Evangelis Petsos, Operation Director)

* Paris Saint-Germain FC (Philippe Boindrieux, Vice President - General Director)

* Partizan Belgrade (Marko Vjetrovic, Foreign and Public Affairs Manager)

* PFC Litex Lovech (Andon Dimitrov, Vice President)

* Real Madrid CF (Alfonso Roberes, International Sponsorship Manager)

* Real Zaragoza (Javier Porquera, Commercial Director)

* Sporting Clube De Portugal (José Eduardo Bettencourt, President)

* Sporting Clube De Portugal (Pedro Afra, General Manager)

* Ujpest FC (Joe Borocz, CEO)

* Valletta FC (Joe Attard, General Secretary)

* VfB Stuttgart (Jochen Schneider, Sports Director)


No other event offers you the opportunity to network with over 160 senior football club executives in just two days. To book your place today, contact us on via +44 (0)208 742 7100 or visit www.soccerex.com/europe .