FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke will miss Saturday's FIFA's women's World Cup opener because of the on-going corruption scandal affecting football's governing body, the global body announced on Monday.

"Due to the current situation, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke will not be attending the opening of the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 as previously scheduled," FIFA said in a statement.

"It is important that he attends to matters at FIFA's headquarters in Zurich."

Two separate investigations are being carried out by American and Swiss authorities for alleged rampant and long-running corruption within FIFA, with several top officials arrested in dawn raids in Zurich last week and accused by US investigators of taking tens of millions of dollars in bribes.

They were all detained for alleged corruption cases in North and South America and all being presently held in Switzerland will fight against being extradited to the US.

FIFA's president Sepp Blatter too could be quizzed in the future if needed, according to Swiss prosecutors, in the other investigation regarding the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively.

Blatter, who was re-elected to a fifth term as FIFA president on Friday despite the scandal, has accused US investigators of using the arrests as an attempt to "interfere with the congress" that returned him to power.

UEFA president Michel Platini has said he was "disgusted" at the tarnishing of FIFA's image, and next Saturday, on the sidelines of the Champions League final in Berlin, the UEFA executive will "review its relations" with FIFA.

Some voices, such as Denmark's Allan Hansen, a member of the executive, say UEFA should withdraw from the world body.

The seventh Women's World Cup from June 6 to July 5 in Canada gets underway in Edmonton on Saturday with hosts Canada playing China.