Baron Édouard-Émile-Albert de Laveleye (Ghent, 22 October 1854 – Brussels, 23 November 1938) was a Belgian mining engineer, financier and writer.

In 1881, two of Laveleye's travel journals, titled Les nouveautés de New-York et le Niagara d’hiver (what's new from New York and winter Niagara) and Excursion aux nouvelles découvertes minières du Colorado (Excursion to Colorado's New Mining Discoveries), were published on 1 July 1881, together with several other journals from three authors, in Volume 42 of Le Tour du Monde, Nouveau Journal des Voyages, a weekly magazine that brings together more than 900 travel stories, French or foreign, written by more than 500 travelers including around thirty women.

[9] When the Union Belge des Sociétés de Sports Athlétiques (UBSSA) was established in 1895, Laveleye was elected as the first chairman of the football section, a position he held for nearly 30 years, until 1924.

[13] However, in early 1905, Laveleye, with great personal efforts, dissipated the last misgivings of the English and was able to convince the representatives of The Football Association to join FIFA rather than remain independent.

In allying the Football Association in the French FIFA, each of the home nations joined as equal members, a legacy maintained today.