FIFA Congress

The FIFA Congress is the supreme legislative body of the International Association Football Federation (French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association), commonly known by the acronym FIFA /ˈfiːfə/. FIFA is the international governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer. The congress may be ordinary or extraordinary.

An ordinary congress meets every year, an extraordinary congress may be convened by the FIFA Council (formerly Executive Committee) at any time with the support of one fifth of the members of FIFA.^[1]

Each of the 211 members of FIFA has one vote in the congress. The members of FIFA can propose candidates for the World Cup Host and Presidency of FIFA. The FIFA Presidential Election, FIFA World Cup Host country election takes place at the congress in the year following the FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women's World Cup Host country election takes place at the congress in the year following the FIFA Women's World Cup.^[2]

History

The FIFA Congress has been held annually since 1998. It was previously held every two years. Congresses were not held between 1915 and 1922 and 1939 to 1945, due to the First and Second World Wars. FIFA Presidential Elections have taken place at the 1st, 3rd, 12th, 29th, 30th, 39th, 51st, 53rd, 61st, 65th, 69th and 73rd congresses.

The 1961 FIFA Extraordinary Congress in London elected Stanley Rous as President.^[3] The 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress in Zürich elected Gianni Infantino as the new president on 26 February 2016.^[4] Only five elections have had two or more candidates: the 39th (1974), 51st (1998), 53rd (2002), 65th (2015), and 2016 Extraordinary Congress.

List of congresses

  Congress voting for president

* Extraordinary Congress

  Congress voting for World Cup Host

  Congress voting for Women's World Cup

Congress number^[5]	Year	City	Member associations attending
1st	1904	Paris	5
2nd	1905		5
3rd	1906	Bern	7
4th	1907	Amsterdam	12
5th	1908	Vienna	16
*	1908	Brussels	7
6th	1909	Budapest	13
7th	1910	Milan	12
8th	1911	Dresden	11
9th	1912	Stockholm	17
10th	1913	Copenhagen	12
11th	1914	Christiania (Oslo)	17
12th	1923	Geneva	17
13th	1924	Paris	27
14th	1925	Prague	22
15th	1926	Rome	23
16th	1927	Helsinki	21
17th	1928	Amsterdam	29
18th	1929	Barcelona	23
19th	1930	Budapest	27
20th	1931	Berlin	25
21st	1932	Stockholm	29
22nd	1934	Rome	27
23rd	1936	Berlin	37
24th	1938	Paris	30
25th	1946	Luxembourg	34
26th	1948	London	48
27th	1950	Rio de Janeiro	35
28th	1952	Helsinki	56
*	1953	Paris	48
29th	1954	Bern	52
30th	1956	Lisbon	57
31st	1958	Stockholm	62
32nd	1960	Rome	69
*	1961	London	67
33rd	1962	Santiago	59
34th	1964	Tokyo	99
35th	1966	London	94
36th	1968	Guadalajara	78
37th	1970	Mexico City	86
38th	1972	Paris	102
39th	1974	Frankfurt	122
40th	1976	Montreal	108
41st	1978	Buenos Aires	107
42nd	1980	Zürich	103
43rd	1982	Madrid	127
44th	1984	Zürich	112
45th	1986	Mexico City	111
46th	1988	Zürich	111
47th	1990	Rome	130
48th	1992	Zürich	118
49th	1994	Chicago	164
50th	1996	Zürich	182
51st (details)	1998	Paris	196
*	1999	Los Angeles	195
52nd	2000	Zurich	200
*	2001	Buenos Aires	202
*	2002	Seoul	202
53rd (details)	2002		202
*	2003	Doha	204
54th	2004	Paris	203
55th	2005	Marrakesh	203
56th	2006	Munich	207
57th	2007	Zürich	206
58th	2008	Sydney	200
59th	2009	Nassau	205
60th	2010	Johannesburg	207
61st (details)	2011	Zürich	208
62nd	2012	Budapest	209
63rd	2013	Mauritius	208
64th	2014	São Paulo	209
65th (details)	2015	Zürich	210
* (details)	2016		207
66th	2016	Mexico City	209
67th	2017	Manama^[6]	211
68th (details)	2018	Moscow	210
69th (details)	2019	Paris	211
70th	2020	Online congress^[note 1]	211
71st	2021	Online congress^[note 2]	211
72nd	2022	Doha	210
73rd (details)	2023	Kigali	208
74th	2024	Bangkok	TBC
*	Q4 2024	Zurich	TBC
75th	2025		TBC
76th	2026	or   or	TBC

Extraordinary congresses

A total of eight extraordinary congresses have taken place: 1908 (Brussels), 1953 (Paris), 1961 (London), 1999 (Los Angeles), 2001 (Buenos Aires), 2002 (Seoul), 2003 (Doha), and 2016 (Zürich).^[11] In the 2016 Extraordinary Congress, FIFA President Sepp Blatter would have remained in his position until his successor is elected.^[12] However, due to the fact he was suspended, the Acting FIFA President, Issa Hayatou was in charge of FIFA.^[13]

See also

• List of presidents of FIFA
• List of IOC meetings
• UEFA Congress

Notes

1. The 70th FIFA Congress, originally scheduled to take place in Addis Ababa on 5 June 2020,^[7] was rescheduled as an online event on 18 September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia.^[8]
2. The 71st FIFA Congress, originally scheduled to take place in Tokyo in May 2021,^[9] was rescheduled as an online event on 21 May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.^[10]

References

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