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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'
    5.2
    Losing 4.8 · level 7.1
  • Time-wasting cards while winning
    4%
    1 of 25 cards
  • Next card to the other side
    54%
    Chance 49% · 82 pairs
  • Key finding5.2

    cards per 90 for teams winning in the last 15 minutes; teams losing get 4.8.

  • Key finding1

    of the league's 2 time-wasting cards went to Al-Sadd while winning.

  • Key finding70%

    of Mohammed Al-Sherif's next cards go to the other side; chance alone gives 50%.

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'
6
16–30'
16
31–45+'
20
46–60'
8
61–75'
15
76–90+'
47

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
112
Winning
25
Drawing
60
Losing
27

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
54%
Mohammed Al-Sherif
70%
Abdulrahman Ali Al-Mulla
62%
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Al-Jassim
67%
Abdulhadi Alasmar Al-Ruaile
50%
Mohammed Nasser Ahmed
40%
Mohammed Ahmed Al-Shammari
30%