Disclosed is an apparatus and method for compensating for frequency offset in a wireless communication system using an OFDM system which can compensate for phase change due to carrier frequency offset and sampling frequency offset of data carried on subcarriers. The apparatus includes an FFT window adjustment unit for receiving sampling data when a packet is received, setting a start point of a FFT window at a start point of long training symbols and adjusting a position of the FFT window according to an input window adjustment value, an FFT unit for receiving an output of the FFT window adjustment unit, transforming time-domain symbols into frequency-domain symbols and calculating FFT coefficients, a channel estimation unit for receiving the coefficients from the FFT unit, estimating a channel state and outputting a value for compensating for an estimated value, a channel compensation unit for compensating for the frequency-domain symbols using the output of the channel estimation unit and a phase error tracking and correction unit for receiving an output of the channel compensation unit, detecting a sampling frequency offset and a phase change of a carrier signal and outputting the window adjustment value to the FFT window adjustment unit.