Michel Platini has been elected Uefa's new president after beating previous incumbent Lennart Johansson in a vote in Dusseldorf.
Johansson had spent 17 years in the post, but will now pass control over to French footballing legend Platini.
The former Juventus star won the election at Uefa's Congress by 27 votes to 23 to deny Johansson a fifth term in office.
Among Platini's election pledges was a promise to cut the maximum number of places in the UEFA Champions League for one country to three.
He had also been advocating the introduction of two extra assistant referees to aid match officials, rather than resort to the use of video technology.
During a wonderful playing career, Platini won virtually all the game's major honours, with only a World Cup title eluding his grasp.
Platini did play in three World Cup finals tournaments, but his finest hour was in captaining France to the 1984 European Championship title on home soil, when he was the competition's top scorer.
At club level, he was a huge success at St Etienne and Italian giants Juventus, and was named European Footballer of the Year three times in a row in the mid-1980s.
He retired from playing in 1987 and took over as France's national team coach a year later before stepping down in 1992 after the European Championship in Sweden.
Since then, he has played a prominent role in the organisational side of the game, and was a key figure in France staging the 1998 World Cup.
siao liao epl will hav 3 UCL spots only