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 twice)
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 (born–died)	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) acting	24 October 1918	28 August 1920[note 2]	1 year, 309 days	Netherlands
–		Jules Rimet[note 3] (1873–1956)	28 August 1920[note 2]	1 March 1921	185 days	France
3			1 March 1921	21 June 1954	33 years, 112 days
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	9 June 1956	246 days	England
5			9 June 1956	25 March 1961 (died in office)	4 years, 289 days
–		Ernst Thommen (1899–1967) acting	25 March 1961	28 September 1961	187 days	Switzerland
6		Stanley Rous[note 4] (1895–1986)	28 September 1961	8 May 1974	12 years, 222 days	England
7		João Havelange[note 5] (1916–2016)	8 May 1974	8 June 1998	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) acting	8 October 2015	26 February 2016	141 days	Cameroon
9		Gianni Infantino (born 1970)	26 February 2016	Incumbent	9 years, 172 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