The re-election of Aleksander Ceferin for a new term and the election of Fernando Gomes to the FIFA Council are some of the highlights of the 47th UEFA Congress, which takes place this Wednesday in Lisbon.
The agenda of the event, which will take place between 9:00 and 13:00 at the Lisbon Congress Center, includes, in addition to the elections, the presentation of annual reports, including the annual report and accounts and the budget of the organism for 2023/24.
Slovenian Aleksander Ceferin, who has held the position since 2016, will be re-elected president, as he is running alone for a new four-year term, and Fernando Gomes, president of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), will also be elected. member of the FIFA Board of Directors.
Gomes, 71, who will leave the UEFA vice-presidency after reaching the age limit, is the only candidate for the executive body of the body that governs world football, after the resignation of Noël Le Graët from the presidency of the French Federation of Soccer .
The FPF leader will be elected for a four-year term, after having served two terms of two years each, the last one until 2019, without having stood for re-election in 2021, despite having remained an executive member of UEFA.
Gomes’ candidacy for this executive body of FIFA coincides with Portugal’s ‘race’, along with Spain and Morocco, to organize the 2030 World Cup.
The UEFA Executive Committee will meet the day before, April 4, in a meeting without the press.
In the same act, a FIFA vice president will also be elected, a position for which the Hungarian Sándor Csányi, current holder of the position, competes with the Finnish Ari Lahti, while Debbie Hewitt and David Martin are the candidates for ‘vices’. ‘ FIFA of the British FA.
Source: TSF
