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| post = President
| body = FIFA
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| image = Gianni Infantino (2020) (cropped) (2).jpg
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| incumbent = [[Gianni Infantino]]
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| incumbentsince = 26 February 2016
| department = [[Fédération Internationale de Football Association]]
| style = His Excellency
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| member_of = [[FIFA Council]]
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| seat = [[FIFA Headquarters]], [[Zürich]], Switzerland
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| appointer = [[FIFA Congress]]
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| termlength = Four years
| termlength_qualified = Elected in the year following a [[FIFA World Cup]]<br />(renewable twice)
| constituting_instrument = FIFA Statutes
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| formation = 21 May 1904
| first = [[Robert Guérin]]
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| deputy = Senior Vice President of FIFA
| salary = £2.6 million (FIFA figures for 2015)
| website = {{url|https://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/president|Official website}}
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The following is a '''list of presidents of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association''' ([[FIFA]]), the world [[association football]] [[sport governing body|governing body]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The eight Presidents|url=https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/organisation/52/00/03/fs-110_01e_presidency.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221130726/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/organisation/52/00/03/fs-110_01e_presidency.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 December 2016|publisher=[[FIFA|Fédération Internationale de Football Association]]|website=FIFA.com|format=PDF|access-date=20 December 2016}}</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 [[2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress|extraordinary session]] of the FIFA Congress.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Gianni Infantino elected FIFA President|url=https://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/news/y=2016/m=2/news=gianni-infantino-elected-fifa-president-2767180.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160227072841/http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/news/y=2016/m=2/news=gianni-infantino-elected-fifa-president-2767180.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 February 2016|publisher=Fédération Internationale de Football Association|website=FIFA.com|date=February 26, 2016|access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Baxter|first=Kevin|title=Gianni Infantino is elected FIFA president|url=http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-fifa-election-20160226-story.html|newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|date=February 26, 2016|access-date=February 26, 2016}}</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>{{cite news|title=Issa Hayatou takes temporary charge of Fifa|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34476779|work=[[BBC Sport]]|date=8 October 2015|access-date=8 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="FIFA">{{cite news|title=Sepp Blatter: End of era for Fifa boss|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32985553|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=December 21, 2015|access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref>

==Presidents of FIFA==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! rowspan=2| {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! rowspan=2| Portrait
! rowspan=2| Name<br />{{small|(born–died)}}
! colspan=3| Term of office
! rowspan=2| Country of origin
|-
! Took office
! Left office
! Time in office
|-
| 1
| [[File:Robert Guérin 1906 year.jpg|100px]]
| [[Robert Guérin]]<br />{{small|(1876–1952)}}
| 22 May 1904
| 4 June 1906
| {{age in years and days|1904|5|23|1906|6|4}}
| {{flag|France|1830}}
|-
| 2
| [[File:Daniel Burley Woolfall 1908 year.jpg|100px]]
| [[Daniel Burley Woolfall]]<br />{{small|(1852–1918)}}
| 4 June 1906
| 24 October 1918<br />(''died in office'')
| {{age in years and days|1906|6|4|1918|10|24}}
| {{flag|England}}
|-style="background:#e6e6aa;"
| –
| [[File:C. A. W. Hirschmann.jpg|100px]]
| [[Cornelis August Wilhelm Hirschman]]{{refn|group=note|Named Honorary FIFA Secretary}}<br />{{small|(1877–1951)<br />''acting''}}
| 24 October 1918
| 28 August 1920{{refn|group=note|name=Antwerp 1920|Rimet was provisionally placed in control of FIFA as chairman during the [[1920 Summer Olympics]] in [[Antwerp]], Belgium.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/news/jules-rimet-the-father-the-world-cup-71489 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927144814/https://www.fifa.com/news/jules-rimet-the-father-the-world-cup-71489 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2020 |title=Jules Rimet: The Father of the World Cup |work=FIFA |date=17 June 1998 |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/news/history-fifa-more-associations-follow-450 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411140828/https://www.fifa.com/news/history-fifa-more-associations-follow-450 |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 April 2021 |title=History of FIFA – More associations follow |work=FIFA |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref>}}
|{{age in years and days|1918|10|24|1920|8|28}}
| {{flag|Netherlands}}
|-
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| –
| rowspan="2" | [[File:Jules Rimet in 1920.jpg|100px]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Jules Rimet]]{{refn|group=note|Named Honorary FIFA President on 21 June 1954}}<br />{{small|(1873–1956)}}
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| 28 August 1920{{refn|group=note|name=Antwerp 1920}}
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| 1 March 1921
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| {{age in years and days|1920|8|28|1921|03|01}}
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|France|1830}}
|-
| 3
| 1 March 1921
| 21 June 1954
|{{age in years and days|1921|03|01|1954|6|21}}
|-
| 4
| [[File:Rodolphe Seeldrayers.jpg|100px]]
| [[Rodolphe Seeldrayers]]<br />{{small|(1876–1955)}}
| 21 June 1954
| 7 October 1955<br />(''died in office'')
| {{age in years and days|1954|6|21|1955|10|7}}
| {{flag|Belgium}}
|-
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| –
| rowspan="2" | [[File:Arthur Drewry.jpg|100px]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Arthur Drewry]]<br />{{small|(1891–1961)}}
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| 7 October 1955
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| 9 June 1956
| style="background:#e6e6aa;"| {{ayd|1955|10|7|1956|06|09}}
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|England}}
|-
| 5
| 9 June 1956
| 25 March 1961<br />(''died in office'')
| {{age in years and days|1956|06|09|1961|3|25}}
|-style="background:#e6e6aa;"
| –
| [[File:Ernst B. Thommen.jpg|100px]]
| [[Ernst Thommen]]<br />{{small|(1899–1967)<br />''acting''}}
| 25 March 1961
| 28 September 1961
| {{age in years and days|1961|3|25|1961|9|28}}
| {{flag|Switzerland}}
|-
| 6
| [[File:Stanley Rous.jpg|100px]]
| [[Stanley Rous]]{{refn|group=note|Named Honorary FIFA President on 11 June 1974}}<br />{{small|(1895–1986)}}
| 28 September 1961
| 8 May 1974
| {{age in years and days|1961|9|28|1974|5|8}}
| {{flag|England}}
|-
| 7
| [[File:João Havelange.jpg|100px]]
| [[João Havelange]]{{refn|group=note|Named Honorary FIFA President on 8 June 1998}}<br />{{small|(1916–2016)}}
| 8 May 1974
| 8 June 1998
| {{age in years and days|1974|5|8|1998|6|8}}
| {{flag|Brazil}}
|-
| 8
| [[File:Йозеф Блаттер.jpg|100px]]
| [[Sepp Blatter]]<br />{{small|(born 1936)}}
| 8 June 1998
| 8 October 2015<br />(''impeached''){{refn|group=note|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.<ref name="FIFA"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35655454 |title=Sepp Blatter & Michel Platini lose Fifa appeals but bans reduced |access-date= 24 February 2016 |work= BBC Sport }}</ref>}}
| {{age in years and days|1998|6|8|2015|10|8}}
| {{flag|Switzerland}}
|-style="background:#e6e6aa;"
| –
| [[File:Issa Hayatou (cropped).jpg|100px]]
| [[Issa Hayatou]]{{refn|group=note|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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Acting FIFA President Issa Hayatou|url=https://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/acting-president/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010023004/http://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/acting-president/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 October 2015|publisher=Fédération Internationale de Football Association|website=FIFA.com|date=December 21, 2015|access-date=December 22, 2015|quote="On 8 October 2015, given the decision of the Adjudicatory Chamber of the Independent Ethics Committee to provisionally ban Joseph S. Blatter from all football activities on a national and international level, Issa Hayatou assumed the Office of FIFA President on an interim basis, as the longest-serving vice-president on FIFA's Executive Committee - according to article 32 (6) of the FIFA Statutes."}}</ref>}}<br />{{small|(1946–2024)<br />''acting''}}
| 8 October 2015
| 26 February 2016
| {{age in years and days|2015|10|8|2016|2|26}}
| {{flag|Cameroon}}
|-
| 9
| [[File:Gianni Infantino (2020) (cropped).jpg|100px]]
| [[Gianni Infantino]]<br />{{small|(born 1970)}}
| 26 February 2016
| ''Incumbent''
| {{age in years and days|2016|2|26}}
| {{flag|Switzerland}}<br>{{flag|Italy}}
|}
'''Notes'''
{{reflist|group=note}}

==Timeline==
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 from: 22/05/1904 till: 04/06/1906 color:european text:"[[Robert Guérin|Guérin]]" fontsize:10
 from: 04/06/1906 till: 24/10/1918 color:european text:"[[Daniel Burley Woolfall|Woolfall]]" fontsize:10
 from: 01/01/1921 till: 01/07/1954 color:european text:"[[Jules Rimet|Rimet]]" fontsize:10
 from: 01/07/1954 till: 07/10/1955 color:european text:"[[Rodolphe Seeldrayers|Seeldrayers]]" fontsize:10
 from: 07/10/1955 till: 25/03/1961 color:european text:"[[Arthur Drewry|Drewry]]" fontsize:10
 from: 25/03/1961 till: 08/05/1974 color:european text:"[[Stanley Rous|Rous]]" fontsize:10
 from: 08/05/1974 till: 08/06/1998 color:southamerican text:"[[João Havelange|Havelange]]" fontsize:10
 from: 08/06/1998 till: 08/10/2015 color:european text:"[[Sepp Blatter|Blatter]]" fontsize:10
 from: 26/02/2016 till: end color:european text:"[[Gianni Infantino|Infantino]]" 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]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |title=Past Presidents |url=https://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/president/past-presidents |website=fifa.com |access-date=11 November 2022}}

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