Aleksander Čeferin is a Slovenian lawyer and football administrator. Between 2011 and 2016, he was President of the Football Association of Slovenia.
On 14 September 2016, Aleksander Čeferin was elected as the seventh President of UEFA at the 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens, automatically becoming a vice-president of the world football body, FIFA. “I am looking forward to working closely with all of you in order to promote, protect and develop football across our continent,” he told delegates at the Congress, “and to ensure that the European football community is always united … now and in the future."
