FIFA World Cup Organisers

The following were the presidents of the organising committees of the FIFA World Cup, also the presidents of FIFA and the heads of state of the hosting nation included.

Besides being the president of FIFA and the French Football Federation, Jules Rimet was also chairman of the organising committee of the 1938 FIFA World Cup. In addition to organising the World Cup that was played in the United States in 1994, Alan Rothenberg had been the organiser of the 1984 Summer Olympics. The 2002 World Cup, which was played in Korea and Japan, was organised for the first time by two presidents of football federations. Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup with West Germany in 1974 as a player and as coach in 1990, was the organiser of the 2006 World Cup, played in Germany.

FIFA World Cup Chair of the
Organizing Committee		 FIFA President Head of State
of the host nation
Uruguay 1930 Raúl Jude Jules Rimet Juan Campisteguy
Italy 1934 Giorgio Vaccaro King Victor Emmanuel III
France 1938 Jules Rimet Albert Lebrun
Brazil 1950 Rivadávia Correa Mayer Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Switzerland 1954 Gustav Wiederkehr Rodolphe Rubattel
Sweden 1958 Gunnar Lager Arthur Drewry King Gustaf VI Adolf
Chile 1962 Carlos Dittborn[n 1] Stanley Rous Jorge Alessandri
England 1966 Andrew Stephen Queen Elizabeth II
México 1970 Guillermo Cañedo de la Bárcena[n 2] Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
West Germany 1974 Hermann Gösmann João Havelange Gustav Heinemann
Walter Scheel
Argentina 1978 Alfredo Francisco Cantilo Jorge Rafael Videla
Spain 1982 Pablo Porta King Juan Carlos I
México 1986 Guillermo Cañedo de la Bárcena[n 2] Miguel de la Madrid
Italy 1990 Antonio Matarrese Francesco Cossiga
United States 1994 Alan Rothenberg Bill Clinton
France 1998 Fernand Sastre[n 1] Joseph Blatter Jacques Chirac
South Korea/Japan 2002 Chung Mong-joon
Shunichiro Okano		 Kim Dae-jung
Emperor Akihito
Germany 2006 Franz Beckenbauer Horst Köhler
South Africa 2010 Danny Jordaan Jacob Zuma
Brazil 2014 José Maria Marin Dilma Rousseff
Russia 2018 Vitaly Mutko Gianni Infantino Vladimir Putin
Qatar 2022 Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
Canada/Mexico/United States 2026 Steve Reed
Yon de Luisa
Carlos Cordeiro		 Queen Elizabeth II
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Joe Biden

See also

Notes
  1. He died before the beginning of the World Cup.
  2. The only organiser who organised two World Cups.
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