At a gathering of the organisation that governs European football on Wednesday in Lisbon, Aleksander Ceferin was unanimously elected to a third term as president of UEFA.
The 55-year-old Slovenian attorney was originally elected in 2016 after Frenchman Michel Platini was ousted from office, and he will hold the position through 2027.
Following his defeat of the breakaway European Super League project during his second term, Ceferin was re-elected by acclamation. He will now preside over the implementation of a new Champions League format beginning in 2019.
He will also have more time to pursue the new Financial Fair Play regulations, which will require teams to spend no more than 70 percent of total earnings by 2025/26 on salaries for players and staff, transfers, and agency fees.
Only a few weeks prior to the UEFA Congress in the Portuguese capital, Gianni Infantino was unanimously re-elected as the head of FIFA, the world governing organisation of the sport.
