UEFA Congress election results and decisions

The XXXIII Ordinary UEFA Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, voted on Wednesday for nine seats on the UEFA Executive Committee for the 2009-2013 period, with eight positions available for four-year terms and one position for a two-year term.

UEFA Executive Committee elections
The following members were (re-)elected:
First ballot (absolute majority – half valid votes plus one)
Votes (of 53 cast):
Marios N Lefkaritis, Cyprus, 50
Theo Zwanziger, Germany, 47 (new)
Giancarlo Abete, Italy, 45 (new)
Geoffrey Thompson, England, 43
Allan Hansen, Denmark, 40 (new)
František Laurinec, Slovakia, 36 (new)
Michael van Praag, Netherlands, 34 (new)
Abraham Luzon, Israel, 28 (new)
Second ballot (simple majority)
Votes (of 53 cast):
Liutauras Varanavicius, Lithuania, 22 (new)
The term of office for Mr Varanavicius is a two-year period.

European FIFA Executive Committee members
In addition, four European members of the FIFA Executive Committee were (re-)elected for the 2009-2013 period:
Michel D'Hooghe, Belgium, Elected by acclamation
Şenes Erzik, Turkey, Elected by acclamation
Marios N Lefkaritis, Cyprus, Elected by acclamation
Vitaly Mutko, Russia, Elected by acclamation (new)

Honorary members
Outgoing members Viacheslav Koloskov, Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, Per Ravn Omdal and Giangiorgio Spiess were made honorary members of UEFA.

HatTrick update
The Congress received an update on the UEFA HatTrick Programme 2008-12 (HatTrick II) for the promotion of football projects, whereby €2.5m will be made available to each association for investment projects and a maximum of €1.3m per year, per national association, for solidarity payments over the four-year period. Some €25m is to be made available for education purposes.