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Latest revision as of 19:51, 16 November 2025
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 (born–died) |
Term of office | Country of origin | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 1 | 
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Robert Guérin (1876–1952) |
22 May 1904 | 4 June 1906 | 2Â years, 12Â days |  France
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| 2 | 
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Daniel Burley Woolfall (1852–1918) |
4 June 1906 | 24 October 1918 (died in office) |
12Â years, 142Â days |  England
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| – | 
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Cornelis August Wilhelm Hirschman[note 1] (1877–1951) acting |
24 October 1918 | 28 August 1920[note 2] | 1Â year, 309Â days |  Netherlands
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| – | 
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Jules Rimet[note 3] (1873–1956) |
28 August 1920[note 2] | 1 March 1921 | 185Â days | France
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| 3 | 1 March 1921 | 21 June 1954 | 33Â years, 112Â days | |||
| 4 | 
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Rodolphe Seeldrayers (1876–1955) |
21 June 1954 | 7 October 1955 (died in office) |
1Â year, 108Â days |  Belgium
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| – | 
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Arthur Drewry (1891–1961) |
7 October 1955 | 9 June 1956 | 246Â days | England
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| 5 | 9 June 1956 | 25 March 1961 (died in office) |
4Â years, 289Â days | |||
| – | 
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Ernst Thommen (1899–1967) acting |
25 March 1961 | 28 September 1961 | 187Â days |  Â Switzerland
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| 6 | 
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Stanley Rous[note 4] (1895–1986) |
28 September 1961 | 8 May 1974 | 12Â years, 222Â days | England
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| 7 | 
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João Havelange[note 5] (1916–2016) |
8 May 1974 | 8 June 1998 | 24Â years, 31Â days |  Brazil
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| 8 | 
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Sepp Blatter (born 1936) |
8 June 1998 | 8 October 2015 (impeached)[note 6] |
17Â years, 122Â days | Â Switzerland
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Issa Hayatou[note 7] (1946–2024) acting |
8 October 2015 | 26 February 2016 | 141Â days |  Cameroon
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| 9 | _(cropped).jpg)
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Gianni Infantino (born 1970) |
26 February 2016 | Incumbent | 9Â years, 263Â days | Â Switzerland Italy
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Notes
- ^ Named Honorary FIFA Secretary
- ^ a b 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 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]
- ^ 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]
