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FIFA Presidential Election 2016 Date Announced: Expected Candidates and Reaction

Sepp Blatter has seven months remaining as FIFA president after football's governing body announced his successor will be revealed on Feb. 26, 2016, as Richard Conway of BBC Sport reported.

Next year's election was set on Monday after many of FIFA's top officials descended on Zurich for an extraordinary executive committee meeting.

Nine FIFA officials and five corporate executives were indicted on charges of "racketeering, wire fraud and money-laundering conspiracies" at the end of May, per the United States Department of Justice.

Despite winning the election on May 29, Blatter's position as president became untenable and he opted to resign amid increasing scrutiny at the beginning of June.