UEFA: electoral process launched (president, ExCo, FIFA Council) for 22 April 2027 congress in Astana

News Tank Football - Paris - News #456066 - Published on 06/10/26 at 13:00

UEFA has launched the electoral process for the 51st UEFA ordinary congress, to be held in Astana (Kazakhstan) on 22 April 2027. The congress will elect the UEFA president, eight members of the UEFA Executive Committee (including at least one woman) and four European members of the FIFA Council (three FIFA vice-presidents and one ordinary member), all for four-year terms. The process was set out in a letter sent to member associations by UEFA general secretary Theodore Theodoridis on 5 October 2026 and seen by News Tank.

Aleksander Ceferin, UEFA president since September 2016, said in February 2024 that he would not run again, because "after some time every organisation needs fresh blood, but mainly because I was away from my family for seven years now." However, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi…


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