February 16 – UEFA has re-confirmed that Aleksander Čeferin will stand for re-election to the UEFA presidency unopposed with the announcement of candidates for election at its 47th Atypical Congress in Lisbon on April 5.
Whereas Čeferin is standing unopposed, the congress will vote on the 11 candidates chasing seven seats on UEFA’s govt committee. All seats are for four-year phrases.
4 of these candidates are standing for re-election: Jesper Moller Christiansen (Denmark), Armand Duka (Albania), Andrii Pavelko (Ukraine) and Luis Rubiales (Spain).
Amongst the challengers for a place on the chief committee are France’s Phillippe Diallo, the present interim president of the French Soccer Federation, and Norway’s Lise Klaveness who famously – and bravely – challenged FIFA and Qatar over the human rights points on the Qatar 2022.
Wales’s Laura McCallister is assured a seat on the UEFA govt committee this time spherical, standing unopposed for the ‘one feminine place’. Germany’s Hans-Joachim Watzke can be standing unopposed for a two-year time period on the chief committee.
McCallister ensures Britain’s house nations illustration on the chief committee. Scotland’s Rod Petrie is standing within the election and will present a second British face to the exco. UEFA is scheduled to announce the hosts of Euro 2028 in September.
UEFA mentioned that every one candidates had efficiently handed an eligibility verify carried out by an electoral committee composed of members of the UEFA Governance and Compliance Committee.
Čeferin will stand for a 3rd time period as UEFA president. He was elected UEFA’s seventh president in 2016 to switch Michel Platini, who was banned the yr earlier than for ethics violations. Ceferin was then re-elected unopposed for a four-year time period in 2019.
The 54-year-old Slovenian lawyer confronted his largest problem in April 2021 when 12 of Europe’s high golf equipment tried to kind a European Tremendous League. He additionally led UEFA’s cost in opposing FIFA’s plans to carry a World Cup each two years as a substitute of each 4.
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