Overview

• Judges ruled that Rubiales’s on-mouth kiss of Jennifer Hermoso during the 2023 Women’s World Cup victory celebration constituted sexual assault under Spain’s consent laws.
• The court upheld the original €10,800 penalty and maintained a one-year ban on approaching Hermoso within 200 meters.
• Rubiales had been acquitted of coercion charges in the first-instance trial in February 2025.
• FIFA previously suspended him from international football for three years and he resigned as president of the Spanish Football Federation in September 2023.
• His legal team announced plans to take the case to Spain’s Supreme Court.