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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="FIFA">Template:Cite news</ref>

Presidents of FIFA

Template:Abbr	Portrait	Name Template:Small	Term of office			Country of origin
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1	File:Robert Guérin 1906 year.jpg	Robert Guérin Template:Small	22 May 1904	4 June 1906	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag
2	File:Daniel Burley Woolfall 1908 year.jpg	Daniel Burley Woolfall Template:Small	4 June 1906	24 October 1918 (died in office)	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag
–	File:C. A. W. Hirschmann.jpg	Cornelis August Wilhelm HirschmanTemplate:Refn Template:Small	24 October 1918	28 August 1920Template:Refn	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag
–	File:Jules Rimet in 1920.jpg	Jules RimetTemplate:Refn Template:Small	28 August 1920Template:Refn	1 March 1921	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag
3			1 March 1921	21 June 1954	Template:Age in years and days
4	File:Rodolphe Seeldrayers.jpg	Rodolphe Seeldrayers Template:Small	21 June 1954	7 October 1955 (died in office)	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag
–	File:Arthur Drewry.jpg	Arthur Drewry Template:Small	7 October 1955	9 June 1956	Template:Ayd	Template:Flag
5			9 June 1956	25 March 1961 (died in office)	Template:Age in years and days
–	File:Ernst B. Thommen.jpg	Ernst Thommen Template:Small	25 March 1961	28 September 1961	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag
6	File:Stanley Rous.jpg	Stanley RousTemplate:Refn Template:Small	28 September 1961	8 May 1974	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag
7	File:João Havelange.jpg	João HavelangeTemplate:Refn Template:Small	8 May 1974	8 June 1998	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag
8	File:Йозеф Блаттер.jpg	Sepp Blatter Template:Small	8 June 1998	8 October 2015 (impeached)Template:Refn	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag
–	File:Issa Hayatou (cropped).jpg	Issa HayatouTemplate:Refn Template:Small	8 October 2015	26 February 2016	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag
9	File:Gianni Infantino (2020) (cropped).jpg	Gianni Infantino Template:Small	26 February 2016	Incumbent	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Flag Template:Flag

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Timeline

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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
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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

External links

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