contribution to the development and popularization of women's and girls' football. 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. 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. 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. Besides his native Azerbaijani, he is fluent in English, Russian and Turkish. Married with three children, including Jamal Mammadov, a u-16 footballer. References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20150512145118/http://www.baku2015.com/ 1979 births Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan Businesspeople from Baku Living people