Liverpool Darwin Nunez, Spurs Bentancur and others hit with a long ban from playing football

• Darwin Nunez of Liverpool is barred from the next five games for Uruguay.
• CONMEBOL suspends player after altercation during Copa America
• At least three matches will see 11 players suspended, fined, or both.

Darwin Nunez, a forward for Liverpool, will miss five international matches due to his involvement in an altercation between Uruguayan players and Colombian supporters during the Copa America.

Players from Uruguay claimed that Colombian fans had been pestering their families during the July semi-final match. They then went into the stands to confront the alleged offenders after there had reportedly been violence in that area of the stadium.

Six weeks on, CONMEBOL's disciplinary commission has fined the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) a sum of $20,000 (£15,130), as well issuing fines and/or suspensions for 11 players. AUF official Marcelo Garcia has also been given a six-month stadium ban from all CONMEBOL competitions.

Banned from playing in his country’s next five games, Nunez has been hit with the most severe suspension. He will miss upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Paraguay, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. He is eligible to return against Brazil on 16 November.

Nunez has also been fined $20,000, again the most severe of all the fines applied. Rather than requiring the Liverpool player to pay the sum out of pocket, it will be automatically subtracted from the prize and broadcast money the AUF was expected to receive.

Tottenham Hotspur's Rodrigo Bentancur has been banned for four games and fined $16,000 (£12,100), while there are three game bans and $12,000 (£9,080) fines for Barcelona defender Ronald Araujo and Atletico Madrid's Jose Gimenez, as well as Mathias Olivera.

Sebastian Caceres, Matias Vina, Emiliano Martinez, Brian Rodriguez, Santiago Mele and Facundo Pellistri, who recently left Manchester United for Panathinaikos in a permanent transfer, have been fined $5,000 (£3,780) but haven't been suspended.

All have the right to appeal the decisions within seven days, but it comes with a $3,000 (£2,270) fee.

After six rounds of matches, Uruguay is eight points ahead of the cutoff point and ranks second in the standings, behind only Argentina, signaling a strong start to the lengthy South American World Cup qualifying campaign. But losing a number of players for at least three games is a big blow.

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