Jérôme Valcke (born 6 October 1960) is a French football administrator, best known as the former Secretary General of FIFA (the international governing body of the sport).

He was released on 12 December 2006 due to his role in negotiating FIFA sponsorship contracts with rival credit card companies Visa and MasterCard.

In the summer of 2003, Valcke switched to the international football federation FIFA in Zürich and took the position of Director of Marketing & TV.

Markus Kattner, FIFA's chief of finance who had acted as interim general secretary between 11 and 27 June 2007, was installed as his deputy.

When he began his work as director of marketing and TV in FIFA four and a half years ago, we were in a financial crisis.

Valcke subsequently issued a statement denying any suggestions that pay off took place, and claimed that "the country had used its financial muscle to lobby for support" instead.

[9] It stated that "a high-ranking FIFA official" caused payments totalling US$10 million to be paid to bank accounts in the name of CONCACAF and Caribbean Football Union controlled by Warner.

[11] However, it later transpired that South African Football Association President Dr. Molefi Olphant had written to Valcke on 4 March 2008 requesting that US$10 million be diverted from the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee's future budget towards a "Diaspora Legacy Programme Fund" operated by then CONCACAF President Jack Warner.

[12] The decision was made by the FIFA Emergency Committee[13] after a series of allegations implicated Valcke of selling World Cup tickets for above face value.

[15] On the expiry of that ban, it was extended for another 45 days and his case was passed to the Ethics Committee's adjudicatory arm for formal proceedings against him for alleged "misuse of expenses and other infringements of FIFA's rules and regulations", with the recommendation from the investigation arm that he be banned from all football for nine years, and fined 100,000 Swiss francs.

[19] On 14 September 2020, the Swiss Federal Court started to prosecute both Valcke and Nasser Al-Khelaifi, based on charges related to a meeting on 24 October 2013, at the French headquarters of beIN, in which Al-Khelaifi allegedly promised to purchase a villa in Porto Cervo, Sardinia for €5m, to be utilized by Valcke through a rental contract signed by Abdelkader Bessedik, in exchange to granting the 2026 and 2030 World Cups screening rights to beIN Media.