Gianni Infantino is new FIFA President

Gianni Infantino: new FIFA President

The Swiss has been announced as winner after second round of voting.

Gianni Infantino - 115 votes

Sheikh Salman - 88 votes

Prince Ali al-Hussein - 4

Jerome Champagne - 0

Second Round voting

For this one someone just needs a simple majority rather than two-thirds. So either Sheikh Salman or Infantino needs to inch to 104 votes to seal it on this round, or else we lose the person in last place and go on, and on, and on, and on.

First ballot results

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein - 27

Sheikh Salman al-Khalifa - 85

Jerome Champagne - 7

Gianni Infantino - 88

No election on the first round of voting

Nobody got the required number of votes to win.

Counting of votes after first round of voting

Voting begins

Tokyo Sexwale pulls out before first round of FIFA presidential vote

South African Tokyo Sexwale pulled out of the race to become the next president of FIFA on Friday, announcing in mid-speech that he was suspending his campaign with immediate effect.

Sexwale had been seen as the outsider in the five-man race.

“I have got a surprise for you. My campaign ends today and I suspend my participation. With only four people, it is your problem now," he said, speaking after the other four candidates.

Sexwale had not been backed by his own African confederation, with CAF making public in January its support of Asian confederation president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa.

How Africa could hold key as rivals make last pitches

Whoever takes over from Blatter, who ran FIFA for 17 years like a globe-trotting head of state, will inherit a very different job with a focus on crisis management, after dozens of international soccer officials were indicted in the United States last year for racketeering, money-laundering and bribery.

African countries make up more than a quarter of the 207 football associations eligible to vote. On the final day of campaigning, there were sharply conflicting versions of how they would cast their ballots.

FIFA presidential favourites Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa and Gianni Infantino look set for a tense battle at the polls following a final day of campaigning before Friday's election.

The UEFA general secretary and chief of the Asian Football Confederation remain the leading contenders to succeed former president Sepp Blatter at the Extraordinary Congress in Zurich, ahead of Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Jerome Champagne and Tokyo Sexwale.

See how the race is going