List of presidents of FIFA

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

President of FIFA
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)
Website	Official website

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 (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[note 1] (1877–1951)	24 October 1918 (acting)	28 August 1920[note 2]	1 year, 309 days	Netherlands
–		Jules Rimet[note 3] (1873–1956)	28 August 1920[note 2] (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)
–		Ernst Thommen (1899–1967)	25 March 1961 (acting)	28 September 1961	187 days	Switzerland
6		Stanley Rous[note 4] (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[note 5] (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)[note 6]	17 years, 122 days	Switzerland
–		Issa Hayatou[note 7] (1946–2024)	8 October 2015 (acting)	26 February 2016	141 days	Cameroon
9		Gianni Infantino (born 1970)	26 February 2016	Incumbent	8 years, 269 days	Switzerland  Italy

Notes

1. Named Honorary FIFA Secretary
2. 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 impeachment, Blatter was given an eight-year exclusion 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 exclusion 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

• 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

References

1. "The eight Presidents" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
2. "Gianni Infantino elected FIFA President". FIFA.com (Press release). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 26 February 2016. Archived from the original on 27 February 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
3. Baxter, Kevin (26 February 2016). "Gianni Infantino is elected FIFA president". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
4. "Issa Hayatou takes temporary charge of Fifa". BBC Sport. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
5. "Sepp Blatter: End of era for Fifa boss". BBC. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
6. "Jules Rimet: The Father of the World Cup". FIFA. 17 June 1998. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
7. "History of FIFA – More associations follow". FIFA. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
8. "Sepp Blatter & Michel Platini lose Fifa appeals but bans reduced". BBC Sport. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
9. "Acting FIFA President Issa Hayatou". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 21 December 2015. Archived from the original on 10 October 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015. On 8 October 2015, given the decision of the Adjudicatory Chamber of the Independent Ethics Committee to provisionally ban Joseph S. Blatter from all football activities on a national and international level, Issa Hayatou assumed the Office of FIFA President on an interim basis, as the longest-serving vice-president on FIFA's Executive Committee - according to article 32 (6) of the FIFA Statutes.

External links

• "Past Presidents". fifa.com. Retrieved 11 November 2022.