UEFA president Ceferin set to be reelected
The UEFA president will be re-elected to office for a four-year term at the 47th Congress to be held on April 5 in Lisbon. Luis Rubiales chooses to be re-elected to the Executive Committee.
Aleksander Ceferin will remain in the UEFA top job for a while. This evening, UEFA announced the final list of candidates for the posts of UEFA President and members of the UEFA Executive Committee and the Slovenian president, in office since 2016, is the only candidate running for the UEFA presidency which means he will be reelected at the 47th Ordinary UEFA Congress, to be held in Lisbon on Wednesday 5 April 2023. Ceferin will remain in office for a further four years, until 2027.
Eligibility checks
UEFA notes that all candidates were subject to an eligibility check carried out by an electoral committee composed of members of the UEFA Governance and Compliance Committee (in accordance with Article 21(6 ) of the UEFA Statutes and Article 4bis of the Regulations Governing the Implementation of the UEFA Statutes ) and all of them successfully passed this eligibility check.
There is also Spanish representation. Luis Rubiales, president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), aspires to be reelected to the Executive Committee. The Spanish president has been a member since February 2019 as UEFA vice-president. Also aspiring for one of the seven vacancies on the new Executive Committee are: Jesper Moller Christensen (Denmark), Philippe Diallo (France), Lise Klaveness (Norway), Andrii Pavelko (Ukraine), Rod Petrie (Scotland), Hugo Quaderer (Liechtenstein), Bjorn Vasallo (Malta), Levan Kobiashvili (Georgia), Armand Duka (Albania) and Petr Fousek (Republic of Czech). In addition, Hans-Joachim Watzke (Germany), general manager of Borussia Dortmund, is also a candidate in his case for a period of only two years.