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FIFA Congress

Legislative body of FIFA

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 . 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.

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.

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. The 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress in Zürich elected Gianni Infantino as the new president on 26 February 2016. 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
number	Year	City	Member associations
attending	Notes
1st	1904	French Third Republic Paris	5	First FIFA Congress. Robert Guérin elected as the first president of FIFA.
2nd	1905	5
3rd	1906	SUI Bern	7
4th	1907	NED Amsterdam	12
5th	1908	Austria-Hungary Vienna	16
*	1908	BEL Brussels	7
6th	1909	Austria-Hungary Budapest	13
7th	1910	ITA Milan	12
8th	1911	GER Dresden	11
9th	1912	SWE Stockholm	17
10th	1913	DEN Copenhagen	12
11th	1914	NOR Christiania (Oslo)	17	Last Congress before World War I.
12th	1923	SUI Geneva	17	First Congress after World War I. Jules Rimet elected FIFA president.
13th	1924	French Third Republic Paris	27
14th	1925	First Czechoslovak Republic Prague	22
15th	1926	ITA Rome	23
16th	1927	FIN Helsinki	21
17th	1928	NED Amsterdam	29
18th	1929	ESP Barcelona	23	Uruguay selected as the host of the [1930 FIFA World Cup](1930-fifa-world-cup).
19th	1930	HUN Budapest	27
20th	1931	GER Berlin	25
21st	1932	SWE Stockholm	29	Italy selected as the host of the [1934 FIFA World Cup](1934-fifa-world-cup).
22nd	1934	ITA Rome	27
23rd	1936	GER Berlin	37	France selected as the host of the [1938 FIFA World Cup](1938-fifa-world-cup).
24th	1938	French Third Republic Paris	30	Last Congress before World War II.
25th	1946	LUX Luxembourg	34	First Congress after World War II.
Brazil selected as the host of the [1950 FIFA World Cup](1950-fifa-world-cup).
Switzerland selected as the host of the [1954 FIFA World Cup](1954-fifa-world-cup).
26th	1948	ENG London	48
27th	1950	BRA Rio de Janeiro	35	Sweden selected as the host of the [1958 FIFA World Cup](1958-fifa-world-cup).
28th	1952	FIN Helsinki	56
*	1953	FRA Paris	48
29th	1954	SUI Bern	52
30th	1956	POR Lisbon	57	Arthur Drewry elected FIFA president. Chile selected as the host of the [1962 FIFA World Cup](1962-fifa-world-cup).
31st	1958	SWE Stockholm	62
32nd	1960	ITA Rome	69	England selected as the host of the [1966 FIFA World Cup](1966-fifa-world-cup).
*	1961	ENG London	67	Stanley Rous elected FIFA president.
33rd	1962	CHI Santiago	59
34th	1964	JPN Tokyo	99
35th	1966	ENG London	94
36th	1968	MEX Guadalajara	78
37th	1970	MEX Mexico City	86
38th	1972	FRA Paris	102
39th	1974	FRG Frankfurt	122	João Havelange elected FIFA president.
40th	1976	CAN Montreal	108
41st	1978	ARG Buenos Aires	107	João Havelange elected to a second term as FIFA president.
42nd	1980	SUI Zürich	103
43rd	1982	ESP Madrid	127	João Havelange elected to a third term as FIFA president.
44th	1984	SUI Zürich	112
45th	1986	MEX Mexico City	111	João Havelange elected to a fourth term as FIFA president.
46th	1988	SUI Zürich	111	United States selected as the host of the [1994 FIFA World Cup](1994-fifa-world-cup).
47th	1990	ITA Rome	130	João Havelange elected to a fifth term as FIFA president.
48th	1992	SUI Zürich	118	France selected as the host of the [1998 FIFA World Cup](1998-fifa-world-cup).
49th	1994	USA Chicago	164
50th	1996	SUI Zürich	182	Japan and South Korea selected as the hosts of the [2002 FIFA World Cup](2002-fifa-world-cup).
51st ([details](51st-fifa-congress))	1998	FRA Paris	196	Sepp Blatter elected FIFA president.
*	1999	USA Los Angeles	195
52nd	2000	SUI Zürich	200	Germany selected as the host of the [2006 FIFA World Cup](2006-fifa-world-cup).
*	2001	ARG Buenos Aires	202
*	2002	KOR Seoul	202
53rd ([details](53rd-fifa-congress))	2002	202	Sepp Blatter elected to a second term as FIFA president.
*	2003	QAT Doha	204
54th	2004	FRA Paris	203	South Africa selected as the host of the [2010 FIFA World Cup](2010-fifa-world-cup).
55th	2005	MAR Marrakesh	203
56th	2006	GER Munich	207
57th	2007	SUI Zürich	206	Sepp Blatter elected to a third term as FIFA president.
58th	2008	AUS Sydney	200
59th	2009	BAH Nassau	205
60th	2010	RSA Johannesburg	207
61st ([details](61st-fifa-congress))	2011	SUI Zürich	208	Sepp Blatter elected to a fourth term as FIFA president.
62nd	2012	HUN Budapest	209
63rd	2013	MRI Port Louis	208
64th	2014	BRA São Paulo	209
65th ([details](65th-fifa-congress))	2015	SUI Zürich	210	Sepp Blatter elected to a fifth term as FIFA president.
* ([details](2016-fifa-extraordinary-congress))	2016	207	Gianni Infantino elected FIFA president.
66th	2016	MEX Mexico City	209
67th	2017	BHR Manama	211
68th ([details](68th-fifa-congress))	2018	RUS Moscow	210	United States, Mexico, and Canada selected as the hosts of the [2026 FIFA World Cup](2026-fifa-world-cup).
69th ([details](69th-fifa-congress))	2019	FRA Paris	211	Gianni Infantino elected to a second term as FIFA president.
70th	2020	SUI Zürich	211
71st	2021	SUI Zürich	211
72nd	2022	QAT Doha	210
73rd ([details](73rd-fifa-congress))	2023	RWA Kigali	208	Gianni Infantino elected to a third term as FIFA president.
74th	2024	THA Bangkok	211	Brazil selected as the host of the [2027 FIFA Women's World Cup](2027-fifa-women-s-world-cup).
*	2024	SUI Zürich	211	Morocco, Portugal, and Spain selected as the hosts of the [2030 FIFA World Cup](2030-fifa-world-cup).
Saudi Arabia selected as the host of the [2034 FIFA World Cup](2034-fifa-world-cup).
75th	2025	PAR Asunción	210
76th	2026	CAN Vancouver	TBC	[2031 FIFA Women's World Cup](2031-fifa-women-s-world-cup), [2035 FIFA Women's World Cup](2035-fifa-women-s-world-cup), and [2028 FIFA Women's Club World Cup](2028-fifa-women-s-club-world-cup) host to be announced
77th	2027	JPN Osaka or CHN Hangzhou	TBC	[2029 FIFA Club World Cup](2029-fifa-club-world-cup) and [2029 FIFA U-20 World Cup](2029-fifa-u-20-world-cup) host to be announced

Extraordinary congresses

A total of nine extraordinary congresses have taken place: 1908 (Brussels), 1953 (Paris), 1961 (London), 1999 (Los Angeles), 2001 (Buenos Aires), 2002 (Seoul), 2003 (Doha), 2016 (Zürich) and 2024 (Online). In the 2016 Extraordinary Congress, FIFA President Sepp Blatter would have remained in his position until his successor is elected. However, due to the fact he was suspended, the Acting FIFA President, Issa Hayatou was in charge of FIFA.

Notes

References

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