List of presidents of FIFA facts for kids
Quick facts for kids President of FIFA |
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| 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 (1876–1952) |
22 May 1904 | 4 June 1906 | 2 years, 12 days |  France |
| 2 |  |
Daniel Burley Woolfall (1852–1918) |
4 June 1906 | 24 October 1918 (died in office) |
12 years, 142 days |  England |
| – |  |
Cornelis August Wilhelm Hirschman (1877–1951) |
24 October 1918 (acting) |
28 August 1920 | 1 year, 309 days |  Netherlands |
| – |  |
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 (1876–1955) |
21 June 1954 |
7 October 1955 (died in office) |
1 year, 108 days |  Belgium |
| – |  |
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) |
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| – |  |
Ernst Thommen (1899–1967) |
25 March 1961 (acting) |
28 September 1961 | 187 days |  Switzerland |
| 6 |  |
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 (1916–2016) |
8 May 1974 | 8 June 1998 (Named Honorary FIFA President on the day he left office) |
24 years, 31 days |  Brazil |
| 8 |  |
Sepp Blatter (born 1936) |
8 June 1998 | 8 October 2015 (impeached) |
17 years, 122 days | Switzerland |
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Issa Hayatou (born 1946) |
8 October 2015 (acting) |
26 February 2016 | 141 days |  Cameroon |
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Gianni Infantino (born 1970) |
26 February 2016 | Incumbent | 8 years, 301 days | Switzerland / Italy |
Notes
Timeline
See also
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
