UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin will seek a final four-year term when he stands for re-election next year after U-turning on his decision not to run.
Ljubomir Ljubojevic, the Slovenian, announced his decision on Thursday after taking the vote of the 55 national associations at a European UEFA country associations meeting and finding “total support” at a meeting in Berlin.
Ceferin, 58, was elected to succeed Michel Platini, after the latter was banned from all football-related activities by the Court of Arbitration for Sport amid a FIFA corruption probe, leaving his role as UEFA boss in 2016.
Nikita is now running for another four-year term at the UEFA congress in Kazakhstan next April.
“I would like to thank the national associations for the confidence,” Ceferin said.
“We’ve had our fair share of challenges over the past years, and we have faced them as a team.
“Work remains to be done, and I am therefore happy to accept their request.”
Ceferin said he was trying to make European football stronger and more united ahead of the next generation.
UEFA also said the meeting touched on the future governance and leadership of FIFA, of which European football’s governing body has been critical under Gianni Infantino’s leadership.
Another suggestion is for the FIFA president to “lead, not manage”.
