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Referees and the Score

Does the score change how players are booked, and do referees even things up?

  • Cards per 90 · winning, last 15'
    6.3
    Losing 3.5 · level 5.0
  • Time-wasting cards while winning
    11%
    25 of 224 cards
  • Next card to the other side
    50%
    Chance 52% · 493 pairs
  • Key finding6.3

    cards per 90 for teams winning in the last 15 minutes; teams losing get 3.5.

  • Key finding4

    of the league's 30 time-wasting cards went to Al-Gharafa while winning.

  • Key finding71%

    of Mohammed Nasser Ahmed's next cards go to the other side; chance alone gives 55%.

Booked by Score

How it's counted

Booked by Score

Score at the card

The booked club's score from goals before the card's minute.

Losing
Behind when booked

Cards per 90 by score

Players' cards ÷ minutes each team spent in that score, on a 90-minute clock.

Level
Both teams' minutes count
31–45+, 76–90+
Stoppage cards, minutes not recorded

Players only

Bench staff cards left out.

How often teams are booked while winning, level or losing, window by window.

  • Losing
  • Drawing
  • Winning
Minute
Cards
1–15'
52
16–30'
67
31–45+'
130
46–60'
87
61–75'
95
76–90+'
213

Why They're Booked

How it's counted

Why They're Booked

Booking reasons

The referee's wording on the report, grouped into six reasons.

Score at the card

The booked club's score from goals before the card's minute.

Losing
Behind when booked

Players only

Bench staff cards left out.

What players are booked for while winning, level and losing.

  • Unsporting behaviour
  • Stopping an attack
  • Dissent
  • Delaying the restart
  • Violent or abusive conduct
  • Other
Score
Cards
All cards
644
Winning
224
Drawing
264
Losing
156

Evening It Up?

How it's counted

Evening It Up?

Players only

Bench staff cards left out.

Next card vs chance

Each card and the next one in the match. Chance: the same match's cards dealt at random between the two clubs.

Same minute
One incident, not counted
2 cards each
Chance 67%

After a card, how often the next one goes to the other side, against chance.

  • To the other side
  • By chance
Referee
To the other side
Whole league
50%
Mohammed Nasser Ahmed
71%
Mohammed Ahmed Al-Shammari
53%
Abdulla Ali Al-Athba
60%
Salman Falahi
56%
Mohammed Al-Sherif
49%
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Al-Jassim
49%
Abdulhadi Alasmar Al-Ruaile
45%
Abdulaziz Mousa Abdulla
45%
Mohammed Ahmad Al-Mazyed
46%
Khalid Abdulla Nabet
50%
Naser Ayesh
39%
Abdulrahman Ali Al-Mulla
47%
Nayef Mohamed Al-Kadiri
38%