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Friedrich Stickler (born 18 April 1949, in

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) is an

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n manager and

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administrator. He is Deputy Director General of the Austrian lotteries and board member of the Austrian Sports Aid. Stickler is the former president of

Austrian Football Association The Austrian Football Association (; ÖFB) is the governing body of football in Austria. It organises the football league, Austrian Bundesliga, the Austrian Cup and the Austria national football team, as well as its female equivalent. It is b ...

and Organising Committee for the

FIFA Club World Cup The FIFA Club World Cup (FIFA CWC) is an international men's association football competition organised by the ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' (FIFA), the sport's global sports governing body, governing body. The compe ...

. He was also the chairman of the UEFA Club Competitions Committee before 2007 and co-opted member of the UEFA Executive Committee. From 2009 to 2015 he was president of the European Lotteries. In his tenure as president of the

, he was responsible for the successful bid, along with

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, to host the

UEFA Euro 2008 The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2008 or simply Euro 2008, was the 13th UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial association football, football tournament contested by the member nations of UEFA ( ...

Life and career

After completing his studies at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Stickler worked for

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. He took over the management of the ship casinos and directed the Executive Secretariat. In 1985 Stickler was involved as project director on the introduction of Lotto "6 out of 45" in Austria. Immediately after the founding of the Austrian Lotteries, Stickler was appointed to the board in 1986. Since 2002, Stickler has been member of the

Austrian Federal Economic Chamber The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (German language, de: ''Wirtschaftskammer Österreich'' or WKO) functions as the federal parent organization for the nine States of Austria, State Chambers and 110 trade associations for different industries w ...

, and responsible for the professional group Casinos Austria and Austrian Lotteries. He has been Deputy Director General of the Austrian Lotteries since 2006. Stickler was elected in 2009 as president of the European State Lotteries and Toto Association (European Lotteries), based in

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, Switzerland. He was reelected twice. In 2015, Hansjörg Höltkemeier, CEO of Lotto Berlin and the Lotto Foundation took over this position from Stickler. In 2015, Stickler was elected to the executive committee of the Global Lottery Monitoring System (GLMS) for sports betting. The object of GLMS is to combat

match fixing In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, rigging, hippodroming, or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, v ...

and manipulation in international sports. In 2010, Stickler became the first Austrian in the "Lottery Industry Hall of Fame". From 2002 to 2008, Stickler was president of the Austrian Football Association, from 2005 to 2009 an executive board member of the

Austrian Olympic Committee The Austrian Olympic Committee (, ÖOC) is the non-profit organization representing Austrian sportsperson, athletes in the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The ÖOC also represents the selection of Austrian cities in their bid to be the si ...

, and co-opted member of the UEFA Executive Committee from 2007 to 2008. In 2002, he succeeded as ÖFB president, along with his Swiss colleague, to bring the UEFA Euro 2008 to Austria and Switzerland.

References

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