List of presidents of FIFA

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President of FIFA
FIFA logo without slogan.svg
Fédération Internationale de Football Association
Style His Excellency
Member of FIFA Council
Seat FIFA Headquarters, Zürich, Switzerland
Appointer FIFA Congress
Term length Four years
Elected in the year following a FIFA World Cup
(renewable three times)
Constituting instrument FIFA Statutes
Formation 21 May 1904
First holder Robert Guérin
Deputy Senior Vice President of FIFA
Salary £2.6 million (FIFA figures for 2015)
Website Official website

The following is a list of presidents of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the world association football governing body.[1]

Presidents Daniel Burley Woolfall, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, and Arthur Drewry died during their term in office.

The current president is Swiss-Italian Gianni Infantino, elected on 26 February 2016 during an extraordinary session of the FIFA Congress.[2][3] Prior to his election, Cameroonian Issa Hayatou was acting president after the impeachment of Sepp Blatter on 8 October 2015, who was given an eight-year ban from all football-related activities on 21 December 2015 (reduced to six years on 24 February 2016), which was renewed for six years on 24 March 2021.[4][5]

Presidents of FIFA

No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)
Term of office Country of origin
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Robert Guérin 1906 year.jpg Robert Guérin
(1876–1952)
22 May 1904 4 June 1906 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.  France
2 Daniel Burley Woolfall 1908 year.jpg Daniel Burley Woolfall
(1852–1918)
4 June 1906 24 October 1918
(died)
Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.  England
100px Cornelis August Wilhelm Hirschman[note 1]
(1877–1951)
24 October 1918
(acting)
28 August 1920[note 2] Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.  Netherlands
Jules Rimet in 1920.jpg Jules Rimet[note 3]
(1873–1956)
28 August 1920[note 2]
(acting)
1 March 1921 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.  France
3 1 March 1921 21 June 1954
4 Rodolphe Seeldrayers.jpg Rodolphe Seeldrayers
(1876–1955)
21 June 1954 7 October 1955
(died)
Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.  Belgium
Arthur Drewry.jpg Arthur Drewry
(1891–1961)
7 October 1955
(acting)
9 June 1956 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.  England
5 9 June 1956 25 March 1961
(died)
100px Ernst Thommen
(1899–1967)
25 March 1961
(acting)
28 September 1961 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.   Switzerland
6 Stanley Rous.jpg Stanley Rous[note 4]
(1895–1986)
28 September 1961 8 May 1974 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.  England
7 João Havelange.jpg João Havelange[note 5]
(1916–2016)
8 May 1974 8 June 1998 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.  Brazil
8 Йозеф Блаттер.jpg Sepp Blatter
(born 1936)
8 June 1998 8 October 2015
(impeached)[note 6]
Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.   Switzerland
100px Issa Hayatou[note 7]
(born 1946)
8 October 2015
(acting)
26 February 2016 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.  Cameroon
9 100px Gianni Infantino
(born 1970)
26 February 2016 Incumbent Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.   Switzerland /
 Italy

Notes

  1. Named Honorary FIFA Secretary
  2. 2.0 2.1 Rimet was provisionally placed in control of FIFA as chairman during the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.[6][7]
  3. Named Honorary FIFA President on 21 June 1954
  4. Named Honorary FIFA President on 11 June 1974
  5. Named Honorary FIFA President on 8 June 1998
  6. Following his suspension, Blatter was given an eight-year ban from all football-related activities on 21 December 2015 (reduced to six years on 24 February 2016), which was renewed for six years on 24 March 2021.[5][8]
  7. Following the provisional ban on Sepp Blatter, Issa Hayatou assumed the Office of FIFA President on an interim basis in accordance with article 32(6) of the FIFA Statutes because Hayatou was the longest-serving vice-president on FIFA's Executive Committee.[9]

Timeline

See also

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