| 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 aFIFA 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 |
The following is alist of presidents ofFIFA, the worldassociation footballgoverning body.[1]
PresidentsDaniel Burley Woolfall,Rodolphe Seeldrayers, andArthur Drewry died during their term in office.
The current president is Swiss-ItalianGianni Infantino, elected on 26 February 2016 during anextraordinary session of the FIFA Congress.[2][3] Prior to his election, CameroonianIssa Hayatou was acting president after the impeachment ofSepp 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 (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 |
| – | .jpg) | Issa Hayatou[note 7] (1946–2024) acting | 8 October 2015 | 26 February 2016 | 141 days |  Cameroon |
| 9 | _(cropped).jpg) | Gianni Infantino (born 1970) | 26 February 2016 | Incumbent | 9 years, 269 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.
