# 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.
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 (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Country of origin |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Country of origin |
| 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 (1877–1951) | 24 October 1918 (acting) | 28 August 1920 | 1 year, 309 days | Netherlands |
| – | | Jules Rimet (1873–1956) | 28 August 1920 (acting) | 1 March 1921 | 33 years, 297 days | France |
| 3 | | Jules Rimet (1873–1956) | 1 March 1921 | 21 June 1954 | 33 years, 297 days | France |
| 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 (acting) | 9 June 1956 | 5 years, 169 days | England |
| 5 | | Arthur Drewry (1891–1961) | 9 June 1956 | 25 March 1961 (died in office) | 5 years, 169 days | England |
| – | | Ernst Thommen (1899–1967) | 25 March 1961 (acting) | 28 September 1961 | 187 days | Switzerland |
| 6 | | Stanley Rous (1895–1986) | 28 September 1961 | 8 May 1974 (Named Honorary FIFA President over a month after leaving office) | 12 years, 222 days | England |
| 7 | | João Havelange (1916–2016) | 8 May 1974 | 8 June 1998 (Named Honorary FIFA President on the day he left office, resigned on 30 April 2013) | 24 years, 31 days | Brazil |
| 8 | | Sepp Blatter (born 1936) | 8 June 1998 | 8 October 2015 (impeached) | 17 years, 122 days | Switzerland |
| – | | Issa Hayatou (1946–2024) | 8 October 2015 (acting) | 26 February 2016 | 141 days | Cameroon |
| 9 | | Gianni Infantino (born 1970) | 26 February 2016 | Incumbent | 8 years, 307 days | Switzerland Italy |
Notes
* ↑ Named Honorary FIFA Secretary
* 1 2 Rimet was provisionally placed in control of FIFA as chairman during the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
* ↑ 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.
* ↑ 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.