Klaveness has always been honest that this was the most likely outcome of this election campaign. The NFF president told news shortly before the election that, if it was not successful this time, the election campaign would only be the first step towards another attempt in two years. The goal is not affected by this outcome, Klaveness has long since established that she will continue to work to get into the Uefa board. This is how the votes were distributed Armand Duka (Albania) – 45 votes Jesper Møller (Denmark) – 42 votes Peter Fousek (Czech Republic) – 40 votes Levan Kobiashvili (Georgia) – 40 votes Luis Rubiales (Spain) – 40 votes Philippe Diallo (France) – 37 votes Andrii Pavelko (Ukraine) – 31 votes Hugo Quaderer (Liechtenstein) – 25 votes Bjorn Vassallo (Malta) – 25 votes Lise Klaveness (Norway) – 18 votes Rod Petrie (Scotland) – 15 votes The seven with the most votes were elected in the UEFA board. Klaveness could stand for election in the quota women’s place, where there had been only one opponent in Laura McAllister from Wales, but for reasons of principle she chose to fight for one of the ordinary places instead. There were 11, with Klaveness as the only woman, fighting for seven board seats. And it went as she thought, she didn’t get the 28 votes she needed to be elected. Klaveness received 18 votes, the second fewest of the eleven who stood for election. Before the election, Klaveness justified the decision not to run in the women’s category as follows to news: – There is less chance of entering this way, but we did it anyway. That was what the entire board and management group of the NFF agreed on. We wanted to move towards the system where women are pitted against each other at the forefront, she said. These were elected to the UEFA board. Aleksander Ceferin was re-elected as UEFA president. The Slovenian ran unopposed. – It means a lot to me. It is a great honor and a great responsibility. I will do everything not to disappoint you, he said in a short acceptance speech. FORMER BOARD MEMBER: Karen Espelund. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB It was only in June 2011 that Karen Espelund, also from Norway, became the first woman in history to be appointed to the board of UEFA. But she got the place quotated by Uefa, who began to realize that it didn’t look quite so good with only men in the executive committee. A woman has never been elected to one of the open positions, and that did not happen in 2023 either.
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Lise Klaveness did not get enough votes
