UEFA Congress and Executive Committee meeting
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
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An election to the FIFA Council is among the items on the agenda at the 13th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Geneva on Wednesday – followed later by a UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Nyon which will include the choice of venues for the 2019 UEFA club competition finals.
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UEFA’s 55 member associations will gather in Geneva on Wednesday morning for the European body’s 13th Extraordinary Congress.
Following the Congress at the Hotel President Wilson in the Swiss city, the UEFA Executive Committee will then hold a meeting at the House of European Football in nearby Nyon.
The Congress agenda features the election of one European member of the FIFA Council. One candidate, Alexey Sorokin (Russia) is standing for election for a term from 2017 to 2021.
In addition, the Congress will ratify two representatives from the European Club Association (ECA) to sit on the UEFA Executive Committee. The latest UEFA Ordinary Congress, in Helsinki in April, granted two full member positions on the Executive Committee to representatives of the ECA, as part of a series of governance reforms proposed by the UEFA President, Aleksander Čeferin.
New members of the UEFA Governance and Compliance Committee will also be ratified, along with new members of the UEFA Organs for the Administration of Justice, and proposed amendments to the UEFA Statutes will be put to the vote.
The Congress will be streamed live on UEFA.com.
On Wednesday afternoon, the UEFA Executive Committee, chaired by Aleksander Čeferin, will come to UEFA’s headquarters for its latest deliberations.
The committee will discuss a Memorandum of Understanding with the Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL), and appoint a new UEFA vice-president.
A European member of the FIFA Council will also be appointed until the next Ordinary UEFA Congress in Bratislava, Slovakia, next February.
A decision will be taken on the hosts for the 2019 UEFA club competition finals – the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Women’s Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup. Fourteen bid dossiers were submitted to UEFA by ten national associations by the June deadline.
The committee will be asked to approve the 2018/19 regulations for UEFA’s new national team competition, the UEFA Nations League, which kicks off in September next year.
A press conference attended by the UEFA President is scheduled to take place after the end of the meeting at approximately 17.30CET, and will be streamed live on UEFA.com.
Nyon will again host the next UEFA Executive Committee meeting, which is scheduled for Thursday 7 December.