The chief executive of the Organising Committee for the 2018 World Cup in Russia is hoping to secure the last available UEFA seat on the body.

Russia does not currently have a FIFA Council member after Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko was barred from standing for re-election in March due to his role within the country's Government.

Mutko, also the President of the Russian Football Union (RFU), is a former Sports Minister.

Sorokin had previously claimed it is important for the nation to have a member of the Council.

He was elected to the Board of the RFU last month, a move seen as a boost to his FIFA hopes.

The country's governing body are ultimately responsible for nominating officials for seats on the FIFA Council to UEFA.

"We would like to inform you that Mr Alexey Sorokin has passed the eligibility check carried out by FIFA," a statement from the UEFA press service said, according to TASS.

UEFA, the European governing body, are due to hold an Extraordinary Congress in Nyon in Switzerland in September to elect their last FIFA Council member after Iceland's Geir Thorsteinsson pulled out of the running prior to April's Congress in Helsinki.

The decision from Thorsteinsson left UEFA with just three candidates for four positions on the body.

Hungary's Sandor Csyani, Cyprus' Costakis Koutsokoumnis and Montenegro's Dejan Savicevic were all elected unopposed in the Finnish capital.

Each will serve four-year terms, with Germany’s Reinhard Grindel, the replacement for banned predecessor Wolfgang Niersbach, set to serve for two years.

The person who is elected at the Extraordinary Congress will complete UEFA's eight-strong contingent on the 37-member FIFA Council.

UEFA do have the power to allow its Executive Committee to organise a ballot for such an election but FIFA's statutes require a four-month campaign that allows time to conduct eligibility checks on potential candidates.