The 73rd FIFA Congress will hold at Kigali, Rwanda on March 16th, 2023, the World Football governing has announced.This was one of the issues agreed upon by the Bureau of the FIFA Council – composed of the FIFA President and the six confederation presidents – the biggest one of the others being an increase in the number of players to be included on the final list to at least 23 and a maximum of 26.Kigali, Rwanda will host the 73rd FIFA Congress on March 16, 2023. The 2023 FIFA presidential election will take place then. pic.twitter.com/f4U95gl3VH— Murimi Njiru (@muriminjirujnr) June 23, 2022 In a communication issued on Thursday, FIFA also confirmed that the 2023 FIFA presidential elections will take place at the Congress in Rwanda.“The Bureau of the FIFA Council composed of the FIFA President Gianni Infantino the six confederation presidents has addressed a number of key topics and taken the following decisions. The 73rd FIFA Congress will be held in Kigali, Rwanda on 16 March 2023. The 2023 FIFA presidential election will take place at the 73rd FIFA Congress, the call for which was approved by the FIFA Council during its meeting on 30 March 2022,” the communication on FIFA’s official site read.OFFICIAL | The 73rd FIFA Congress will be held in Kigali,Rwanda on 16 March 2023. The 2023 FIFA presidential election will take place at the 73rd FIFA Congress, the call for which was approved by the FIFA Council during its meeting on 30 March 2022.Congress ya FIFA mu Rwanda 🇷🇼 pic.twitter.com/6YDMUZoTCw— Clarisse Uwimana (@uwimaclarisse) June 23, 2022 Thus, Rwanda will become the first country the CECAFA region to host a FIFA Congress, but it will not be such a new thing to them having hosted the FIFA Council meeting in October 2018.Only two other countries in Africa have hosted the FIFA Congress previously, Morocco being the first to do so in Marrakech in 2005 and Mauritius being the latest one in 2013.
