Candidates for election at 47th UEFA Ordinary Congress
Thursday, February 16, 2023
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Thirteen candidates apply for nine available seats as members on the UEFA Executive Committee
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UEFA has announced the final list of candidatures for the positions of UEFA President and UEFA Executive Committee members to be elected at the 47th Ordinary UEFA Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday 5 April 2023.
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.
a) Candidate for the UEFA presidency (for a four-year term):
- Aleksander Čeferin* (Slovenia)
* standing for re-election
b) Candidate for one female member position on the UEFA Executive Committee (for a four-year term):
- Laura McAllister (Wales)
c) Candidates for seven member positions on the UEFA Executive Committee (for a four-year term) (in alphabetical order):
- Jesper Møller Christensen* (Denmark)
- Philippe Diallo (France)
- Armand Duka* (Albania)
- Petr Fousek (Czechia)
- Lise Klaveness (Norway)
- Levan Kobiashvili (Georgia)
- Andrii Pavelko* (Ukraine)
- Rod Petrie (Scotland)
- Hugo Quaderer (Liechtenstein)
- Luis Rubiales* (Spain)
- Bjorn Vassallo (Malta)
* standing for re-election
d) Candidate for one member position on the UEFA Executive Committee (for a two-year term):
- Hans-Joachim Watzke (Germany)