The 50-year-old Swiss has gone into quarantine as a result of the positive diagnosis.

"FIFA President Gianni Infantino has received confirmation that he has tested positive for coronavirus," the governing body said in a statement.

"The FIFA President, who has reported mild symptoms, has immediately placed himself in self-isolation and will remain in quarantine at least for 10 days.

"All people who came into contact with the FIFA President during the last few days have been informed accordingly and they are being requested to take the necessary steps.

"FIFA sincerely wishes President Infantino a speedy recovery." 

The news comes with Infantino, who is an International Olympic Committee member, the subject of a criminal investigation in Switzerland.

Proceedings were opened against the FIFA President in July over his relationship with Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber.

The case centres on undocumented meetings that Lauber and Infantino are alleged to have held in 2016 and 2017.

Infantino has insisted his innocence, saying the meetings "were in no way secret and most certainly not illegal".

FIFA's Ethics Commission has also cleared the organisation's leader after opening and then closing an investigation.

Last week, Infantino told Swiss tabloid Blick: "I still do not know what I am being accused of. 

"They threw me to the world public without saying what I was supposed to have done wrong."