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			King Victor Emmanuel III
France 1938	Jules Rimet		Albert Lebrun
Brazil 1950			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			Jorge Rafael Videla
Spain 1982			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		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			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

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^ ^a ^b He died before the beginning of the World Cup.
^ ^a ^b The only organiser who organised two World Cups.

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[ff-1] He died before the beginning of the World Cup.

[gcb-2] The only organiser who organised two World Cups.

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Tournaments	Uruguay 1930 Italy 1934 France 1938 Brazil 1950 Switzerland 1954 Sweden 1958 Chile 1962 England 1966 Mexico 1970 West Germany 1974 Argentina 1978 Spain 1982 Mexico 1986 Italy 1990 United States 1994 France 1998 South Korea–Japan 2002 Germany 2006 South Africa 2010 Brazil 2014 Russia 2018 Qatar 2022 Canada–Mexico–United States 2026 2030 2034
Qualification	1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
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Notes: There was no qualification for the 1930 World Cup as places were given by invitation only. In 1950, there was no final; the article is about the decisive match of the final group stage.

FIFA World Cup Organisers

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