Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, November 8th, UEFA announced on the 7th that the list of candidates for the next president of Uefa had been confirmed on the 7th. Since there were no new candidates to join the competition, the current president Severin would become the only candidate.
In 2016, Severin, the then president of the Slovenian Football Association, was elected as the president of UEFA, replacing Platini who resigned on suspicion of improper payment at that time. He is the seventh chairman of UEFA since its establishment in 1954, and his term of office will be in 2019.