Earlier this month, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge, speaking ahead of a summit with government ministers, Interpol, UN representatives and betting operators, called for sports bodies to receive a cut of betting revenues and also insisted that governments should impose tighter controls on gambling in sport.
After a meeting on Thursday, the PFSC, chaired by UEFA president Michel Platini and comprising representatives from the European Club Association, European Professional Football Leagues, FIFPro and UEFA, released a statement via the official website of European football's governing body to confirm its members had "agreed a united position regarding the issue of betting".
"Financial solidarity depends on redistribution of revenue from the commercial exploitation of top professional football to the grassroots...(and the PFSC) expresses concern at the growing unauthorised commercial use of football competitions for betting purposes," read a statement from the organisation, which advises the UEFA executive committee.
"(The PFSC) considers that competition organisers/clubs should have the right, including intellectual property right, to consent to their events being used by betting companies and that such companies should pay fair financial compensation," added the statement on UEFA.com. "Such financial compensation is also essential for funding grassroots football as well as fighting match-fixing and sports fraud."
The PFSC also stated it would urge "political authorities to adopt a concrete national and/or European-wide legislation to address these matters and to ensure a fair financial return to football".