FIFA President Gianni Infantino will stand for re-election next year.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the world football governing body said: "The FIFA President announced in April that he will stand for re-election in 2027. Of course, nothing has changed. Mr Infantino will be standing for re-election.”
Infantino, who was first elected as president in 2016, has been under huge pressure since FIFA announced a highly controversial - and since scrapped - private investment plan in late July, which would have seen third-party investors invited to take stakes in a commercial subsidiary dubbed the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE).
The proposal drew fierce pushback from across the football community, with some accusing FIFA of looking to "sell" the sport.
A major divide quickly opened up in world football over Infantino's position as head of the governing body, with regional confederations and individual nations split over whether he should continue.
