| Post: | President |
| Body: | FIFA |
| Insignia: | FIFA logo without slogan.svg |
| 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 three times) |
| 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) |
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]
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Country of origin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | Robert Guérin | 22 May 1904 | 4 June 1906 |  France | |||
| 2 | Daniel Burley Woolfall | 4 June 1906 | 24 October 1918 (died in office) | ||||
| – | Cornelis August Wilhelm Hirschman | 24 October 1918 (acting) | 28 August 1920 |  Netherlands | |||
| – | Jules Rimet | 28 August 1920 (acting) | 1 March 1921 | France | |||
| 3 | 1 March 1921 | 21 June 1954 | |||||
| 4 | Rodolphe Seeldrayers | 21 June 1954 | 7 October 1955 (died in office) |  Belgium | |||
| – | Arthur Drewry | 7 October 1955 (acting) | 9 June 1956 | ||||
| 5 | 9 June 1956 | 25 March 1961 (died in office) | |||||
| – | Ernst Thommen | 25 March 1961 (acting) | 28 September 1961 |  Switzerland | |||
| 6 | Stanley Rous | 28 September 1961 | 8 May 1974 (Named Honorary FIFA President over a month after leaving office) | ||||
| 7 | João Havelange | 8 May 1974 | 8 June 1998 (Named Honorary FIFA President on the day he left office) |  Brazil | |||
| 8 | Sepp Blatter | 8 June 1998 | 8 October 2015 (impeached) | Switzerland | |||
| – | Issa Hayatou | 8 October 2015 (acting) | 26 February 2016 |  Cameroon | |||
| 9 | Gianni Infantino | 26 February 2016 | Incumbent | Switzerland Italy | |||
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