The Slovenian has been approved to serve another four-year term until 2027 after first being elected in 2016 to replace disgraced former President Michel Platini before being voted in for a first full term in 2019.

In his acceptance speech, sole candidate Čeferin thanked delegates for their support. 

"It is a great honour but mainly it is a great responsibility towards football," he said. 

"I will do my best not to disappoint."

The 55-year-old took a swipe at the European Super League which threatened to disrupt the continent's elite domestic leagues by luring away clubs to a breakaway project.

"(Football) is one of the last public assets yet to be privatised," Čeferin said.

"It doesn't belong to anyone, or rather it belongs to everyone: to players, coaches, referees, supporters and volunteers. 

"We must never forget that we have a duty to ensure that the interests of football prevail over the private interests of a handful of privileged individuals."

Appointments have been made to the UEFA Executive Committee with a focus on having clubs and leagues represented by each member.

France's Philippe Diallo, Petr Fousek of Czech Republic, and Georgian Levan Kobiashvili have been elected to four-year terms while Jesper Møller Christensen of Denmark, Albanian Armand Duka, Spain's Luis Rubiales and Ukrainian Pavelko were re-elected for the same length.

Pavelko was arrested for allegedly misusing international aid funds last November before being released after the UAF paid the bail fee of UAH10,000,000 (£226,000/$271,000/€260,000).

The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv ruled to suspend him for one month until March 17 but the UAF said his position remained intact.

He has been head of the UAF since 2015 and was first elected to the UEFA Executive Committee in 2019.

Today's UEFA Congress also saw Germany's Hans-Joachim Watzke elected to the Committee for a two-year term.

Čeferin confirmed that Italian Gabriele Gravina and Wales' Laura McAllister were appointed as UEFA vice-presidents as the body looks to further its gender equality measures.

"In the last few years a women's football division has been established at UEFA, a women's football strategy has been launched, we have successfully reformed the Women's Champions League and centralised rights, and we invested five times as much in EURO 2022 as in EURO 2017," he said.

"A revolution is under way. Our next task is to adopt minimum standards for women's national team players. It will be for sure a milestone in the development of the game."

In closing the 2023 edition of UEFA Congress, Čeferin echoed the pledge that he delivered after his first election in Athens: "I promise you that I will never forget that we are here because of football." 

"We will put football first, always.

"I will do whatever I can to protect football together with you."

Čeferin has faced widespread calls to resign following the damning independent report into the scenes at last year’s Champions League final in Paris which concluded that UEFA, "as event owner, bears primary responsibility for failures which almost led to disaster."

However, he has yet to make any comment on the report as and apology was issued on UEFA's behalf by secretary general Theodore Theodoridis.