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]
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Country of origin | ||
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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] (born 1946) |
8 October 2015 (acting) |
26 February 2016 | 141 days | Cameroon | |
9 |
Gianni Infantino (born 1970) |
26 February 2016 | Incumbent | 8 years, 58 days |
Switzerland / Italy |
Notes
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.