Frenchman Jérôme Champagne and South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale have both agreed to attend.

UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino, meanwhile, looks likely to be at the event in the Belgian capital but this has yet to be confirmed.

Jordanian Football Association President Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, who lost out to now-suspended President Sepp Blatter at last year’s Congress, will appear via video link, a spokesperson from #NewFIFANow told insidethegames.

The only absentee will be Asian Football Confederation chief Shaikh Salman bin Al-Khalifa because of a series of meetings at the end of the month.

The forum is being conducted jointly by the European Parliament Sports Intergroup and the #NewFIFANow campaign group and each of the candidates have been asked to present their plans to reform the scandal-hit organisation, which remains engulfed in crisis.

Criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States into widespread corruption in world football are continuing, while Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini were both banned for eight years by the FIFA Ethics Committee in December for a series of ethics breaches.

A total of 41 officials and entities have been indicted by the United States Justice Department on charges including racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud.

The Investigatory Chamber of the Ethics Committee yesterday recommended FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke be banned for nine years after he was accused of being involved in a scheme to sell World Cup tickets for above their face value.

The forum in Brussels will give the candidates the chance to stake their claim for the FIFA hotseat ahead of the Extraordinary Congress, which is due to take place in Zurich on February 26.

“I am looking forward to hearing from the candidates,” Member of European Parliament Emma McClarkin, who was involved with an event in Brussels in 2015 which launched the #NewFIFANow campaign, said.

“The world will be watching closely.

“This should be an exciting opportunity for them to tell us what they will do to reform FIFA.

“Football supporters' confidence in the organisation is at an all-time low but hopefully this event can help determine which of the candidates they can place their trust in, if any.”