MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Aleksander Ceferin was re-elected on Wednesday for another four-year term.

The 55-year-old Slovenian president of the European governing football body was a sole candidate running in the election, which was held as part of the 47th Ordinary UEFA Congress in Portugal’s Lisbon on April 5.

Speaking after his election, Ceferin addressed the Congress in Lisbon saying: "It is a great honor but mainly it is a great responsibility towards … football."

"I will do my best not to disappoint," UEFA’s newly-elected president added.

Ceferin was elected as UEFA’s 7th president in September 2016. He won the election at an extraordinary UEFA congress in Athens having received 42 votes, while his only rival, UEFA vice president Michael van Praag, secured 13 votes.

The Slovenian football official succeeded Frenchman Michel Platini, who resigned in early 2016 after he had been suspended from all football related activities for four years. The new UEFA president was elected for the term of two and a half years until the election at the 43rd Ordinary UEFA Congress.