Former FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon has announced that he will run for the presidency of world football's governing body.
FIFA has been rocked by a corruption scandal this year, with a number of its top officials having been arrested on charges including racketeering.
South Korean Chung said his priority would be to reform the troubled organisation.
Speaking at a news conference in Paris, the businessman, who worked with his country's football association for 16 years, said: "It is my privilege and honour to announce my candidacy."
He hit out at current president Sepp Blatter, who announced in early June that he was standing down after 17 years as the scandal rocked the governing body.
Chung said: "The real reason FIFA has become such a corrupt organisation is because the same person and his cronies have been running it for years. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
"It has pained me to witness the spectacle of the FIFA president being booed by the fans at football stadiums everywhere.
"In 2011, when a European sports magazine conducted a survey asking 'What do you think about FIFA president Joseph Blatter?' 95 percent said that Blatter is ruining football."
Chung said the situation demanded that Blatter's successor "must be a crisis manager and a reformer."
The 63-year-old added: "After decades of an ever-widening circle of corruption, FIFA needs a leader who can bring back common sense, transparency and accountability."
UEFA president Michel Platini, who has already declared his candidacy, is widely tipped to succeed Blatter when the presidential election takes place at an extraordinary congress in Zurich next February.
Chung criticised Platini, a former supporter of Blatter, saying he had a "father and son" and "mentor-student" relationship with the Swiss over the years. He added: "It has suddenly become very fashionable to be Blatter's enemy. This is too convenient."
He had previously said Platini was "not the right man" to lead FIFA into a new era.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.