FA set to vote against UEFA rule change allowing Aleksander Ceferin extra term

The Football Association will vote against a rule change which would enable Aleksander Ceferin, pictured, to serve a further term as UEFA president (Mike Egerton/PA)

The Football Association intends to vote against a rule change which would allow UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin to serve a further term in 2027, the PA news agency understands.

National associations, including the English FA, will be asked to amend a raft of UEFA statutes at Thursday’s Congress in Paris.

Within that bundle of rule changes is a move to amend Article 69 which would mean the first partial term Ceferin served from September 2016 would not be counted within the three-term limit, and would therefore allow him to serve a further full term from 2027 to 2031.

Zvonimir Boban quit UEFA last month over the proposal on term limits (Mike Egerton/PA)

The proposal has already led to the resignation of UEFA’s technical director Zvonimir Boban, who had previously been a strong ally of Ceferin.

The FA is understood to have pushed for the statute amendments to be unbundled because it wholeheartedly supports most of the other changes proposed – such as increasing the minimum number of female representatives on the ruling UEFA executive committee from one to two.

However, it does have concerns over the change to the term limits. FA sources insist this is a governance position, rather than a vote against Ceferin.

It is not yet known whether any of the FA representatives in Paris, who include chair Debbie Hewitt and chief executive Mark Bullingham, will speak out against the amendments during the Congress.

Boban described the term limit proposal as “disastrous” in an open resignation letter published last month.

FA chair Debbie Hewitt will be in Paris (Mike