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Korea Football Association's 'Year-End Presidential Election' Fails... FIFA Expresses Concern Over Reform Plan

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-a = The Korea Football Association, facing a prolonged leadership vacuum, has effectively halted its planned 'presidential election within the year' due to intervention by the International Football Federation (FIFA)...

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-a = The Korea Football Association, facing a prolonged leadership vacuum, has effectively halted its planned 'presidential election within the year' due to intervention by the International Football Federation (FIFA)...

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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Holding the Korea Football Association (KFA) presidential election within the year has become impossible due to intervention by the International Football Federation (FIFA). The complacent judgment of the K-Football Innovation Committee, which claimed there was no need to worry about FIFA, has come under fire. According to a KFA official, on the 7th, FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) [requested] 20,000 electors from the KFA

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[Sports Chosun Reporter Kim Seong-won] Concerns have become reality. The International Football Federation (FIFA) has put the brakes on the election for the president of the Korea Football Association (KFA), a position left vacant following the resignation of President Chung Mong-kyu. The KFA was scheduled to hold an extraordinary general meeting and a board meeting on the 9th for the next presidential election. However, it made a sudden decisio…

The Korea Football Association's plan to elect a new president by the end of the year has effectively fallen through due to a halt from the International Football Federation (FIFA). With FIFA expressing concerns over the proposal to expand the electoral college to 20,000 members and introduce online voting, it is assessed that the association is now in a situation where it must restart discussions on reforming the election system. According to …

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조선일보 broke the news on Sunday, November 8, 2026.
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