Former Arsenal managing director Keith Edelman remains in the frame for the top FA job.
The Daily Mail says Edelman's top-level football background makes him the clear favourite. Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry, who rejected the chief executive post for the 2018 World Cup bid, withdrew from a shortlist, which he was reluctant to join after the 2018 confusion.
FA chief operating officer Alex Horne, who has run the organisation on a day-to-day basis since last August, failed to make the last three.