Ronaldo missed 31 squad activities, and a 30-day ban still leaves him free for Denmark in November
Cristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for 30 days and fined €255 by the Portuguese Football Federation for walking out of the national team camp, and 19 of those days are already served.
Oct 20, 2026
The Portuguese Football Federation’s disciplinary council published its ruling on Monday, 19 October, and it is about as light as the rules allow. Article 160 of the federation’s disciplinary code sets a suspension of one to six months for a called-up player who walks out of a national team camp without justification. Ronaldo got 30 days and a fine of 2.5 UC, which works out at €255.
The ban is also backdated. His automatic provisional suspension began on 1 October, the day of the Denmark game he missed, so 19 days are already served and 11 are left. Portugal’s next games are at home to Denmark on 14 November and away to Wales on 17 November. If Jorge Jesus wants him, he can pick him.
What the ruling says happened
The judgment sets out a timeline. On 30 September, Ronaldo left the squad in Copenhagen before the official training session at the Parken Stadium, booked for 6pm. He did not turn up to the session or the team dinner at the hotel that followed. He asked the federation’s head of team services for a car and left without telling anyone in charge of the squad that he was going.
Only after leaving did he phone federation president Pedro Proença. According to the judgment, Ronaldo told him he was not in the right state of mind to stay with the squad.
The ruling then lists every squad activity he missed from 6pm that evening until the Norway game in Porto on 4 October. There are 31 of them, including meals, snacks, team talks, a press conference, a recovery session and both matches.
Two out of three
Ronaldo’s defence asked for three mitigating circumstances. The council accepted that he had given relevant service to football and that he held recognition for sporting merit, and it noted he has no disciplinary record with the federation this season or in the three before it. His defence even submitted his CV, awards included.
The third request was turned down. Ronaldo argued that his long public statement on 6 October, in which he apologised to his team-mates and asked to be punished, had helped establish the facts. The council said most of the facts were already public and did not need his help to uncover.
The decision now belongs to Jesus
The ruling does not settle the part that matters to Portugal fans. Ronaldo walked out saying Jesus had twice broken his word to him, and Jesus has always denied making any such agreement. The coach has left the door open, and Proença has said more than once that the federation wants its captain back.
Portugal have done fine without him. They beat Denmark 4-2 in Copenhagen and Norway 2-1 in Porto during his absence and are already through to the Nations League quarter-finals. At 41, with 146 goals in 234 appearances, Ronaldo is not short of reasons to want one more squad. Jesus now has until the November squad announcement to decide whether he is short of reasons to say no.