Vice-president Karma Tshering Sherpa filed his candidacy for president of the All Nepal Football Association (Anfa) on Sunday.

The Anfa general assembly on October 24 will elect a new president and a vice-president. Sherpa has often called for reforms in the football governing body and had been at the loggerheads with disgraced former president Ganesh Thapa. In his recent past, Sherpa led the Football Club Coordination Committee that waged war against Thapa and his working ways.

Anfa, during the leadership of Thapa, had suspended Sherpa along with two other vice-presidents and a central committee member for not showing up at the executive meeting despite repeated calls. But the four officials were reinstated following the directive from Asian Football Confederation.

Sherpa also heads top tier Himalayan Sherpa Club. Sherpa’s candidacy means it will be a two-horse race for the president’s post with acting president Narendra Shrestha also filing his candidacy. Tashi Ghale, a hotelier and former vice-president has already pulled out of the race.

“Football needs financial discipline as well as transparency in policy and administration. If these three things don’t exist, football will not develop. We will bring transparency in football,” said Sherpa adding he has more development plans.

“Decentralisation is the most to make all the FAs active. We believe in team leadership. The district and clubs will get grassroots football. We will work in making the clubs self sustainable,” Sherpa added.

From Sherpa’s panel, former central committee member and national footballer Deepak Khati filed candidacy for vice-president’s post. Khati will contest against former national team skipper Upendra Man Singh and Mani Kunwar. While Anfa is choosing the new president following Fifa’s 10-year suspension on Thapa, the vice-president post has been vacant since the demise of Lalit Krishna Shrestha last year.