François Carrard said that reforms including age and term limits; financial transparency and increasing the mandatory number of women on the Executive Committee are likely to be put forward for approval by the FIFA Congress on 26 February 2016. Speaking at Securing Sport 2015 in New York, Carrard said that consensus had already been agreed on measures including an age limit, however a term limit would be more difficult to impose across all levels of football. He said that final proposals would be finalised in the next two weeks.

“The difficulty with term limits for all other offices is that you must think globally”, said Carrard, Chairman of the 2016 FIFA Reform Committee. “If you have a great young leader in a small country, he is 30 years old and after 12 years he has to go out, and you have nobody behind – it’s stupid. In another situation, in a bigger country, it’s easier. We are still trying to find and refine the solution.” He added that it has yet to be decided whether term limits will be imposed on all football executives.

Carrard also committed to “financial transparency” through publication of FIFA salaries, and made a concrete proposal to increase the number of women on the FIFA Executive Committee from one in 24, as currently mandated by Article 30 of the FIFA Statutes. “We will increase it to six times that number”, he said.

Carrard proposes that FIFA Presidents be able to stand for three four year terms with an age limit of 70, which would mean that the maximum age of any FIFA President would be 74. “All the members [of the Reform Committee] are committed to reform, despite my originally thinking that they are not so committed, because they represent a national association”, he said.