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Elkhan Mammadov is a General Secretary of Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA), Project Leader for UEFA EURO 2020 Baku Bid, Vice-President of UEFA Fair Play and Social Responsibility Committee, FIFA Fair Play and Social Responsibility Committee Member.

Worked as logistical operations controller’s assistant in Baku Investment Ltd in 1996-1997. Upon graduation from American InterContinental University, worked as Deputy Director at Natavan Business Centre and then, Managing Director at Natavan Company and Baku Investment Ltd. In 2000-2008.

On February 9, 2017 Elkhan Mammadov was announced as one of 13 candidates from UEFA member associations standing for the eight vacant positions on the UEFA Executive Committee for the elections at 41st Ordinary UEFA Congress in early April, for which he presented the candidate brochure.

On December 18, 2017 President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev presented Elkhan Mammadov with the Azerbaijani President`s honorary diploma.

In 2016 Elkhan Mammadov graduated from The Executive Master in European Sport Governance (MESGO) programme, organized in cooperation with Sciences Po institute in Paris.

Mammadov was appointed for the third consecutive term as General Secretary by President Rovnag Abdullayev and Executive Committee at AFFA Congress in Spring 2016.

In September 2016, AFFA adopted new development strategy “GROW 2020”, which highlights Association’s priorities until 2020/21 football season.

On October 4, 2016 Elkhan Mammadov received a Leadership Award at “Leaders Under 40 Awards” event in London.

Mammadov was a member and a chairman of various bidding committees for Azerbaijan to host international sporting events. This includes, bidding for 2015 European Games, Baku 2020 Olympics and various large-scale football events. Under his chairmanship, Azerbaijan received the right to host 2012 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup, 2016 UEFA Under-17 European Championship and most lately, three group stage and one quarter-final matches of EURO 2020, that was announced by UEFA in September 2014.

In 2014 AFFA together with its partner, Bakcell, started cooperation with Manchester United Football Club: young football players receive a chance to train with coaches of one of the leading football clubs in the world.

Upon taking office as AFFA General Secretary, Mammadov initiated reformation of Association structure – which resulted in such new departments as Registration and Statistics, Women’s Leagues, Information Technologies, and others – and facilitated adoption of AFFA strategy with three defined priorities: Education, Infrastructure and Grassroots.

In 2013 AFFA received Women and Sport Achievement Diploma from International Olympic Committee for its contribution to the development and popularization of women's and girls' football.

In 2011 Elkhan Mammadov participated in Football Clubs and Association’s Management Executive Training conducted by University of Liverpool. He also completed his postgraduate studies in Planning Management at University of Salford (Manchester, UK) in 2012.

Elkhan Mammadov became General Secretary of AFFA in July 2007. Currently, Mammadov also holds the title of Vice-President at UEFA Fair Play and Social Responsibility Committee (since 2008) and is a member of FIFA Fair Play and Social Responsibility Committee. He performed as UEFA Delegate during 2009-2012.

Mammadov received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Corporate Management from American InterContinental University (London, UK) in 1999.

Elkhan Mammadov was born in 1979 in Baku, Azerbaijan.