Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa (Arabic: سلمان بن ابراهيم آل خليفة; born 2 November 1965) is a Bahraini football administrator.

[3][4] Since leaving Riffa Club to focus on his academic studies, Salman has held executive positions at the Bahrain Football Association (BFA).

[4] In May 2013, Salman was elected president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which also made him a member of the FIFA Executive Committee.

Soon after his election he changed the AFC constitution, which led to Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan losing his seat as an Asian representative on the FIFA Executive Committee and caused a rift between the two men.

[2][11] Prince Nasser issued a royal decree permitting the army to establish military courts to deal with democracy protesters in the Arab Spring, at which time Salman was general secretary of the supreme sports and youth council.

He then headed a committee which was set up to investigate "breaches by individuals associated with the sports movement during the recent unfortunate events in the Kingdom of Bahrain".

The BFA (then headed by Salman) threatened punishments for those who had participated in the protests, or any other act that aims to "overthrow the regime or insult national figures".

[11] After initially refusing to answer questions and maintaining silent about his role,[11] Salman has since denied allegations of being involved in human rights abuses, calling them "false, nasty lies".