Peter Gilliéron

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Peter Heinrich Gilliéron (born May 5, 1953 in Brescia , Italy ; legal domicile in Servion ) is a Swiss lawyer and former football official . From June 2009 to May 2019 he was the central president of the Swiss Football Association (SFV). He is honorary president of the association.

Career

Gilliéron was born in Brescia. His father was working as a geologist in Italy at the time. When the family moved to Bern , he was 13 years old. After graduating from high school, he began studying law at the University of Bern , which he completed in 1978. Since then he has worked as an advocate , i.e. a lawyer. From 1978 to 1982 he was with the Federal Social Insurance Office , then switched to the Swiss Cheese Union as head of the legal service , where he was appointed deputy director in 1989. He became aware of the Swiss Football Association, for which he had been working from August 1, 1993, through a job advertisement in the newspaper. On January 1, 1994, he filled the post of Secretary General. In June 2009 he was elected as the successor to Ralph Zloczower in the office of central president of the SFV in the Bern town hall . After ten years, he did not stand for re-election in May 2020. He was made honorary president. His successor as central president was Dominique Blanc .

From 1992 to 1993 Gilliéron was President of FC Minerva Bern , which merged with FC Zähringia in FC Breitenrain .

Within the European Football Association (UEFA) he was a member of the Development and Support Committee from 1998 to 2002, from 2001 to 2019 he was a member of the UEFA executive, he was a member of various UEFA committees, including chairman from 2011 to 2019 the Committee on Fair Play and Social Responsibility.

He is married.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Gilliéron resigns after ten years. In: Urner Bote , May 17, 2019.
  2. Dominique Blanc new central president of the Swiss Football Association. In: SFV, May 2019.
  3. Peter Gilliéron. In: Uefa, March 12, 2015.
  4. Peter Gilliéron. In: Uefa, April 5, 2017.
  5. ^ CV Peter Gilliéron at the Swiss Football Association (archive)