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List of presidents of FIFA

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Field	Value
post	President
body	FIFA
native_name
insignia	FIFA logo without slogan.svg
image	Gianni Infantino (2020) (cropped) (2).jpg
incumbent	Gianni Infantino
incumbentsince	26 February 2016
department	Fédération Internationale de Football Association
style	His Excellency
member_of	FIFA Council
seat	FIFA Headquarters, Zürich, Switzerland
appointer	FIFA Congress
termlength	Four years
termlength_qualified	Elected in the year following a FIFA World Cup
(renewable twice)
constituting_instrument	FIFA Statutes
formation	21 May 1904
first	Robert Guérin
deputy	Senior Vice President of FIFA
salary	£2.6 million (FIFA figures for 2015)
website

(renewable twice)

The following is a list of presidents of FIFA, the world association football governing body.

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. 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.

Presidents of FIFA

No.	Portrait	Name
(born–died)	Term of office	Country of origin	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1	[[File:Robert Guérin 1906 year.jpg	100px]]	Robert Guérin
(1876–1952)	22 May 1904	4 June 1906		France
2	[[File:Daniel Burley Woolfall 1908 year.jpg	100px]]	Daniel Burley Woolfall
(1852–1918)	4 June 1906	24 October 1918
(died in office)		England
–	[[File:C. A. W. Hirschmann.jpg	100px]]	Cornelis August Wilhelm Hirschman
(1877–1951)
acting	24 October 1918	28 August 1920		Netherlands
–	[[File:Jules Rimet in 1920.jpg	100px]]	Jules Rimet
(1873–1956)	28 August 1920	1 March 1921		France
3	1 March 1921	21 June 1954
4	[[File:Rodolphe Seeldrayers.jpg	100px]]	Rodolphe Seeldrayers
(1876–1955)	21 June 1954	7 October 1955
(died in office)		Belgium
–	[[File:Arthur Drewry.jpg	100px]]	Arthur Drewry
(1891–1961)	7 October 1955	9 June 1956		England
5	9 June 1956	25 March 1961
(died in office)
–	[[File:Ernst B. Thommen.jpg	100px]]	Ernst Thommen
(1899–1967)
acting	25 March 1961	28 September 1961		Switzerland
6	[[File:Stanley Rous.jpg	100px]]	Stanley Rous
(1895–1986)	28 September 1961	8 May 1974		England
7	[[File:João Havelange.jpg	100px]]	João Havelange
(1916–2016)	8 May 1974	8 June 1998		Brazil
8	[[File:Йозеф Блаттер.jpg	100px]]	Sepp Blatter
(born 1936)	8 June 1998	8 October 2015
(impeached)		Switzerland
–	[[File:Issa Hayatou (cropped).jpg	100px]]	Issa Hayatou
(1946–2024)
acting	8 October 2015	26 February 2016		Cameroon
9	[[File:Gianni Infantino (2020) (cropped).jpg	100px]]	Gianni Infantino
(born 1970)	26 February 2016	Incumbent		Switzerland
Italy

Notes

Timeline

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from: 22/05/1904 till: 04/06/1906 color:european text:"Guérin" fontsize:10 from: 04/06/1906 till: 24/10/1918 color:european text:"Woolfall" fontsize:10 from: 01/01/1921 till: 01/07/1954 color:european text:"Rimet" fontsize:10 from: 01/07/1954 till: 07/10/1955 color:european text:"Seeldrayers" fontsize:10 from: 07/10/1955 till: 25/03/1961 color:european text:"Drewry" fontsize:10 from: 25/03/1961 till: 08/05/1974 color:european text:"Rous" fontsize:10 from: 08/05/1974 till: 08/06/1998 color:southamerican text:"Havelange" fontsize:10 from: 08/06/1998 till: 08/10/2015 color:european text:"Blatter" fontsize:10 from: 26/02/2016 till: end color:european text:"Infantino" fontsize:10

References

"The eight Presidents". [[FIFA.
(February 26, 2016). "Gianni Infantino elected FIFA President". Fédération Internationale de Football Association.
Baxter, Kevin. (February 26, 2016). "Gianni Infantino is elected FIFA president". [[The Los Angeles Times]].
(8 October 2015). "Issa Hayatou takes temporary charge of Fifa". [[BBC Sport]].
(December 21, 2015). "Sepp Blatter: End of era for Fifa boss". [[BBC]].
(17 June 1998). "Jules Rimet: The Father of the World Cup". FIFA.
"History of FIFA – More associations follow". FIFA.
"Sepp Blatter & Michel Platini lose Fifa appeals but bans reduced". BBC Sport.
(December 21, 2015). "Acting FIFA President Issa Hayatou". Fédération Internationale de Football Association.

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