The XXVI Extraordinary Congress of the Ukrainian Football Association has begun at the Kyiv House of Football. There are 94 delegates representing all permanent and associate members of the UFA.

Agenda of the XXVI Congress of the UFA:

1. Election of working bodies for the XXVI Extraordinary Congress of the UFA.

2. Recognition that the previous ordinary XXV Congress of the UFA did not take place.

3. Election of the president of the UFA.

4. Approval of the quantitative composition of members of the Executive Committee of the UFA, first vice-presidents of the UFA, and vice-presidents of the UFA.

5. Election of first vice-presidents of the UFA.

6. Election of vice-presidents of the UFA.

7. Election of members of the Executive Committee of the UFA.

8. Election of an auditing body for the UFA.

9. Election of heads, deputies of heads and members of bodies implementing football justice in the UFA.

10. Granting powers to register changes to information about the UFA in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Physical Persons - Entrepreneurs and Public Associations.

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Representatives of FIFA and UEFA (via online mode) are participating in the congress, as well as honorary guests, including former presidents of the Ukrainian Football Association Valeriy Pustovoytenko (Prime Minister of Ukraine 1997-1999), Grygori Surkis (honorary member of UEFA), Anatoliy Konkov (distinguished worker in physical culture and sports, former head coach of the national team of Ukraine), Golden Ball winners Oleh Blokhin, Igor Belanov. Also present in the hall is Golden Ball winner Andriy Shevchenko, who is a delegate at the congress.

Among the guests are also the head coach of the national team of Ukraine Serhiy Rebrov, Silver Boot winner Oleh Protasov, Olympic champion and former head coach of the national team of Ukraine Oleksiy Mykhaylichenko, European vice-champion Anatoliy Demianenko, UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup winner, former head coach of the national team of Ukraine Leonid Buryak.

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Also among the guests are President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine Vadim Gutzeit, President of the National Committee for Sports of Persons with Disabilities Valeriy Suchkevych, head of the Committee on Youth and Sport Issues of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Kozhemeykin, acting Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Yurii Muzika, head of the directorate's department dealing with internal and humanitarian policy at the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksandr Hontaruk.