Betclic postponed match: the 48-hour rule, step by step

If a football match is postponed, a Betclic Portugal bet stands as long as the game is played within 48 hours of its original kick-off. After 48 hours the bet is cancelled ("anulada") and the stake is returned; in a múltipla the postponed selection counts at odds of 1.00 and the rest of the bet carries on. That is the rule in Betclic's own terms and conditions for Portugal, version 6.4, last updated on 17 July 2026.

Before you bet on a match that might not go ahead, it is worth knowing what the match itself looks like. Every fixture has a researched page on BAI8's football predictions; opening one is part of the Free plan's 5 assessments a month, no card needed. If you want to open an account with us instead, sign up here.

The four cases, in Betclic's words

Betclic's football rules (section "Cancelamento – Adiamento") and its general rules cover four situations:

What happens to the match	What happens to your bet
Postponed, played within 48 hours of the original start	Stands, settled on the result
Postponed by more than 48 hours, or cancelled	Cancelled, stake returned
Starts but is abandoned	Cancelled, except markets already decided
Organiser publishes an official result within 48 hours	Stands, settled on that official result

The clock starts at the original kick-off, in local time. A match scheduled for Saturday at 20:30 that is moved to Monday at 19:00 is inside 46.5 hours, so your bet stands. Moved to Monday at 21:00, it is outside 48 hours and is cancelled.

The last row matters for the rare match that is stopped and then awarded: if the league or federation announces an official result within 48 hours of the scheduled start, Betclic settles every bet on that official score.

Abandoned matches: what still counts

When a game kicks off but does not finish, Betclic cancels every bet except those whose outcome was already "fulfilled and irreversible". In practice:

• Half-time result, first-half goals and similar first-half markets stand if the game is abandoned in the second half, because the first half was played in full.
• Over 0.5 goals stands as a winner if a goal had already been scored.
• Over 2.5 goals with one goal on the board is undecided, so it is cancelled.
• The match result is always undecided until the final whistle, so it is cancelled.

The same logic runs through Betclic's 15-minute interval markets: a game stopped in the 35th minute keeps bets on the 0–15 and 15–30 intervals and cancels the rest, using Betclic's own example.

A múltipla worked through

Say you place a 10 € múltipla on three football matches at 2.00, 3.00 and 1.50. The combined odds are 2.00 × 3.00 × 1.50 = 9.00, so a win returns 90 €.

The second match is postponed by four days. Betclic sets that selection to 1.00 and recalculates:

Leg	Odds before	Odds after the postponement
Match 1	2.00	2.00
Match 2 (postponed)	3.00	1.00
Match 3	1.50	1.50
Total	9.00	3.00

If matches 1 and 3 win, you get 10 € × 3.00 = 30 €, stake included. If either of them loses, the múltipla loses; the void leg does not rescue it. A múltipla on Betclic can hold up to 30 selections, and every one of them follows the same rule.

Venue changes and swapped teams

A different stadium does not void a Betclic football bet on its own. Bets stand as long as the team hosting the game is still treated as the home side. If home and away are swapped, every bet is cancelled. At a neutral venue, bets stand whichever team is listed first. This matters more than it sounds: a Portuguese cup tie moved to the opponent's ground is a swapped fixture, and the bets go.

How Betclic compares

Betclic's 48 hours sits between the strictest and the most patient books we have covered. Placard.pt and Betano Portugal give a postponed match only 24 hours (see Placard postponed match rules and Betano postponed match rules), while bet365 waits five days, as bet365 postponed and abandoned match rules explains. For the general idea and how an accumulator shrinks, see postponed match betting rules explained, and for how every major book settles awkward cases, the bookmaker rules hub.

Bookmaker	Postponed match is void after
Placard.pt	24 hours
Betano Portugal	24 hours
Betclic Portugal	48 hours
bet365	5 days

Betclic is a licensed operator in Portugal: the SRIJ, the national gambling regulator, lists it at www.betclic.pt, run by BEM Operations Limited, with a licence for sports betting at fixed odds.

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What this does not tell you

It quotes Betclic Portugal's terms as of version 6.4. Betclic France and other Betclic sites have their own terms, and the Portuguese ones can change, so check the version on your account. Other sports have their own rules in the same document (athletics bets, for one, stay open past 48 hours), and nothing here covers them. Free bets and promotions have separate conditions.