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President of FIFA
FIFA logo without slogan.svg
Gianni Infantino 2018.jpg
Incumbent
Gianni Infantino

since 26 February 2016
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)

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

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. 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.

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 2 years, 12 days  France
2 Daniel Burley Woolfall 1908 year.jpg Daniel Burley Woolfall
(1852–1918)
4 June 1906 24 October 1918
(died in office)
12 years, 142 days  England
C. A. W. Hirschmann.jpg Cornelis August Wilhelm Hirschman
(1877–1951)
24 October 1918
(acting)
28 August 1920 1 year, 309 days  Netherlands
Jules Rimet in 1920.jpg Jules Rimet
(1873–1956)
28 August 1920
(acting)
1 March 1921 33 years, 297 days  France
3 1 March 1921 21 June 1954
4 Rodolphe Seeldrayers.jpg Rodolphe Seeldrayers
(1876–1955)
21 June 1954
7 October 1955
(died in office)
1 year, 108 days  Belgium
Arthur Drewry.jpg Arthur Drewry
(1891–1961)
7 October 1955
(acting)
9 June 1956 5 years, 169 days  England
5 9 June 1956 25 March 1961
(died in office)
Ernst B. Thommen.jpg Ernst Thommen
(1899–1967)
25 March 1961
(acting)
28 September 1961 187 days  Switzerland
6 Stanley Rous.jpg Stanley Rous
(1895–1986)
28 September 1961 8 May 1974
(Named Honorary FIFA President over a month after leaving office)
12 years, 222 days  England
7 João Havelange.jpg João Havelange
(1916–2016)
8 May 1974 8 June 1998
(Named Honorary FIFA President on the day he left office)
24 years, 31 days  Brazil
8 Йозеф Блаттер.jpg Sepp Blatter
(born 1936)
8 June 1998 8 October 2015
(impeached)
17 years, 122 days  Switzerland
Issa Hayatou (cropped).jpg Issa Hayatou
(born 1946)
8 October 2015
(acting)
26 February 2016 141 days  Cameroon
9 Gianni Infantino (2020) (cropped).jpg Gianni Infantino
(born 1970)
26 February 2016 Incumbent 8 years, 255 days  Switzerland /
 Italy

Notes

Timeline

Gianni Infantino Sepp Blatter João Havelange Stanley Rous Arthur Drewry Rodolphe Seeldrayers Jules Rimet Daniel Burley Woolfall Robert Guérin

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Anexo:Presidentes de la FIFA para niños

  • List of association football competitions
  • List of presidents of AFC
  • List of presidents of CAF
  • List of presidents of CONCACAF
  • List of presidents of CONMEBOL
  • List of presidents of OFC
  • List of presidents of UEFA
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