President of FIFA | |
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Fédération Internationale de Football Association | |
Style | His Excellency |
Member of | FIFA Council |
Seat | FIFA Headquarters, Zürich, Switzerland |
Appointer | FIFA Congress |
Term length | Four years Elected in the year following a FIFA World Cup (renewable three times) |
Constituting instrument | FIFA Statutes |
Precursor | Sepp Blatter |
Inaugural holder | Robert Guérin |
Formation | May 21, 1904 |
Deputy | Issa Hayatou |
Salary | £2.6 million (FIFA figures for 2015) |
Website | official website |
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 suspension of Sepp Blatter on 8 October 2015, which later escalated to a ban from all football-related activities on 21 December 2015.