List of presidents of FIFA
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| 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) |
| 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 (1876–1952) |
22 May 1904 | 4 June 1906 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |  France |
| 2 |  |
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[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 (1876–1955) |
21 June 1954 | 7 October 1955 (died) |
Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |  Belgium |
| – |  |
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) |
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| – | 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[note 4] (1895–1986) |
28 September 1961 | 8 May 1974 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | England |
| 7 |  |
João Havelange[note 5] (1916–2016) |
8 May 1974 | 8 June 1998 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |  Brazil |
| 8 |  |
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
- ↑ Named Honorary FIFA Secretary
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rimet was provisionally placed in control of FIFA as chairman during the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.[6][7]
- ↑ Named Honorary FIFA President on 21 June 1954
- ↑ Named Honorary FIFA President on 11 June 1974
- ↑ Named Honorary FIFA President on 8 June 1998
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ 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
- 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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