2018 FIFA World Cup disciplinary record

See also: 2018 FIFA World Cup statistics

In the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which is taking place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, the main disciplinary actions taken against players come in the form of red and yellow cards.^[1]

Disciplinary statistics

• Total number of yellow cards: 219
  
• Average yellow cards per match: 3.42
  
• Total number of red cards: 4
  
• Average red cards per match: 0.06
  
• First yellow card of the tournament:
  Aleksandr Golovin for Russia against Saudi Arabia
  
• First red card of the tournament:
  Carlos Sánchez Moreno for Colombia against Japan
  
• Fastest yellow card from kick off: 1st minute
  
• Fastest yellow card after coming on as a substitute: 1st minute
  
• Latest yellow card in a match without extra time: 90+8th minute
  Aleksandar Prijović for Serbia against Costa Rica, Cédric Soares for Portugal against Iran
  
• Latest yellow card in a match with extra time: 118th minute
  
• Fastest dismissal from kick off: 3rd minute
  
• Latest dismissal in a match without extra time: 90+4th minute
  
• Shortest time difference between two yellow cards given to the same player: 9 minutes
  Igor Smolnikov for Russia against Uruguay (booked in the 27th minute and again in the 36th minute)
  
• Most yellow cards (team): 15
  Croatia
  
• Most red cards (team): 1
  Colombia, Germany, Russia, Switzerland
  
• Fewest yellow cards (team): 1
  Saudi Arabia
  
• Most yellow cards (player): 3
  Sebastian Larsson
  
• Most red cards (player): 1
  Jérôme Boateng, Michael Lang, Carlos Sánchez Moreno, Igor Smolnikov
  
• Most yellow cards (match): 8
  Belgium vs Panama, France vs Argentina, Colombia vs England
  
• Most red cards (match): 1
  Colombia vs Japan, Germany vs Sweden, Uruguay vs Russia, Sweden vs Switzerland
  
• Fewest yellow cards (match): 0
  Argentina vs Iceland, Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia
  
• Most cards in one match: 8 yellow cards
  Belgium vs Panama, France vs Argentina, Colombia vs England

Sanctions

By match

Day	Home	Score	Away	Round	Referee	Total cards
Group stage
Day 01	Russia	5–0	Saudi Arabia	Group A	Néstor Pitana	2	2	0	0
Day 02	Egypt	0–1	Uruguay	Group A	Björn Kuipers	2	2	0	0
Day 02	Morocco	0–1	Iran	Group B	Cüneyt Çakır	4	4	0	0
Day 02	Portugal	3–3	Spain	Group B	Gianluca Rocchi	2	2	0	0
Day 03	France	2–1	Australia	Group C	Andrés Cunha	4	4	0	0
Day 03	Argentina	1–1	Iceland	Group D	Szymon Marciniak	0	0	0	0
Day 03	Peru	0–1	Denmark	Group C	Bakary Gassama	3	3	0	0
Day 03	Croatia	2–0	Nigeria	Group D	Sandro Ricci	3	3	0	0
Day 04	Costa Rica	0–1	Serbia	Group E	Malang Diedhiou	4	4	0	0
Day 04	Germany	0–1	Mexico	Group F	Alireza Faghani	4	4	0	0
Day 04	Brazil	1–1	Switzerland	Group E	César Arturo Ramos	4	4	0	0
Day 05	Sweden	1–0	South Korea	Group F	Joel Aguilar	3	3	0	0
Day 05	Belgium	3–0	Panama	Group G	Janny Sikazwe	8	8	0	0
Day 05	Tunisia	1–2	England	Group G	Wilmar Roldán	1	1	0	0
Day 06	Colombia	1–2	Japan	Group H	Damir Skomina	4	3	0	1
Day 06	Poland	1–2	Senegal	Group H	Nawaf Shukralla	3	3	0	0
Day 06	Russia	3–1	Egypt	Group A	Enrique Cáceres	2	2	0	0
Day 07	Portugal	1–0	Morocco	Group B	Mark Geiger	2	2	0	0
Day 07	Uruguay	1–0	Saudi Arabia	Group A	Clément Turpin	0	0	0	0
Day 07	Iran	0–1	Spain	Group B	Andrés Cunha	2	2	0	0
Day 08	Denmark	1–1	Australia	Group C	Antonio Mateu Lahoz	2	2	0	0
Day 08	France	1–0	Peru	Group C	Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed	4	4	0	0
Day 08	Argentina	0–3	Croatia	Group D	Ravshan Irmatov	7	7	0	0
Day 09	Brazil	2–0	Costa Rica	Group E	Björn Kuipers	3	3	0	0
Day 09	Nigeria	2–0	Iceland	Group D	Matthew Conger	1	1	0	0
Day 09	Serbia	1–2	Switzerland	Group E	Felix Brych	5	5	0	0
Day 10	Belgium	5–2	Tunisia	Group G	Jair Marrufo	1	1	0	0
Day 10	South Korea	1–2	Mexico	Group F	Milorad Mažić	4	4	0	0
Day 10	Germany	2–1	Sweden	Group F	Szymon Marciniak	3	2	1	0
Day 11	England	6–1	Panama	Group G	Gehad Grisha	4	4	0	0
Day 11	Japan	2–2	Senegal	Group H	Gianluca Rocchi	5	5	0	0
Day 11	Poland	0–3	Colombia	Group H	César Arturo Ramos	2	2	0	0
Day 12	Uruguay	3–0	Russia	Group A	Malang Diedhiou	3	2	1	0
Day 12	Saudi Arabia	2–1	Egypt	Group A	Wilmar Roldán	2	2	0	0
Day 12	Iran	1–1	Portugal	Group B	Enrique Cáceres	6	6	0	0
Day 12	Spain	2–2	Morocco	Group B	Ravshan Irmatov	6	6	0	0
Day 13	Denmark	0–0	France	Group C	Sandro Ricci	1	1	0	0
Day 13	Australia	0–2	Peru	Group C	Sergei Karasev	6	6	0	0
Day 13	Nigeria	1–2	Argentina	Group D	Cüneyt Çakır	5	5	0	0
Day 13	Iceland	1–2	Croatia	Group D	Antonio Mateu Lahoz	5	5	0	0
Day 14	South Korea	2–0	Germany	Group F	Mark Geiger	4	4	0	0
Day 14	Mexico	0–3	Sweden	Group F	Néstor Pitana	5	5	0	0
Day 14	Serbia	0–2	Brazil	Group E	Alireza Faghani	3	3	0	0
Day 14	Switzerland	2–2	Costa Rica	Group E	Clément Turpin	6	6	0	0
Day 15	Japan	0–1	Poland	Group H	Janny Sikazwe	1	1	0	0
Day 15	Senegal	0–1	Colombia	Group H	Milorad Mažić	2	2	0	0
Day 15	England	0–1	Belgium	Group G	Damir Skomina	2	2	0	0
Day 15	Panama	1–2	Tunisia	Group G	Nawaf Shukralla	6	6	0	0
Knockout stage
Day 16	France	4–3	Argentina	Round of 16	Alireza Faghani	8	8	0	0
Day 16	Uruguay	2–1	Portugal	Round of 16	César Arturo Ramos	1	1	0	0
Day 17	Spain	1–1 aet (3–4 p)	Russia	Round of 16	Björn Kuipers	3	3	0	0
Day 17	Croatia	1–1 aet (3–2 p)	Denmark	Round of 16	Néstor Pitana	1	1	0	0
Day 18	Brazil	2–0	Mexico	Round of 16	Gianluca Rocchi	6	6	0	0
Day 18	Belgium	3–2	Japan	Round of 16	Malang Diedhiou	1	1	0	0
Day 19	Sweden	1–0	Switzerland	Round of 16	Damir Skomina	4	3	0	1
Day 19	Colombia	1–1 aet (3–4 p)	England	Round of 16	Mark Geiger	8	8	0	0
Day 20	Uruguay	0–2	France	Quarter-finals	Néstor Pitana	4	4	0	0
Day 20	Brazil	1–2	Belgium	Quarter-finals	Milorad Mažić	4	4	0	0
Day 21	Sweden	0–2	England	Quarter-finals	Björn Kuipers	3	3	0	0
Day 21	Russia	2–2 aet (3–4 p)	Croatia	Quarter-finals	Sandro Ricci	5	5	0	0
Day 22	France	1–0	Belgium	Semi-finals	Andrés Cunha	5	5	0	0
Day 23	Croatia	2–1 aet	England	Semi-finals	Cüneyt Çakır	3	3	0	0
Day 24	Belgium	2–0	England	Third place play-off	Alireza Faghani	3	3	0	0
Day 25	France	4–2	Croatia	Final	Néstor Pitana	3	3	0	0

Source: ^[2]

By referee

Referee	Country	Matches				PKs awarded
Damir Skomina	Slovenia	3	2	0	8	1
Malang Diedhiou	Senegal	3	0	1	7	0
Szymon Marciniak	Poland	2	0	1	2	1
Alireza Faghani	Iran	4	0	0	18	1
Néstor Pitana	Argentina	5	0	0	15	3
Mark Geiger	United States	3	0	0	14	1
Ravshan Irmatov	Uzbekistan	2	0	0	13	0
Gianluca Rocchi	Italy	3	0	0	13	1
Cüneyt Çakır	Turkey	3	0	0	12	1
Andrés Cunha	Uruguay	3	0	0	11	2
Björn Kuipers	Netherlands	4	0	0	11	1
Milorad Mažić	Serbia	3	0	0	10	1
Sandro Ricci	Brazil	3	0	0	9	1
Nawaf Shukralla	Bahrain	2	0	0	9	0
Janny Sikazwe	Zambia	2	0	0	9	0
Enrique Cáceres	Paraguay	2	0	0	8	3
Antonio Mateu Lahoz	Spain	2	0	0	7	2
César Arturo Ramos	Mexico	3	0	0	7	0
Sergei Karasev	Russia	1	0	0	6	0
Clément Turpin	France	2	0	0	6	1
Felix Brych	Germany	1	0	0	5	0
Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed	United Arab Emirates	1	0	0	4	0
Gehad Grisha	Egypt	1	0	0	4	2
Joel Aguilar	El Salvador	1	0	0	3	1
Bakary Gassama	Gambia	1	0	0	3	1
Wilmar Roldán	Colombia	2	0	0	3	3
Matthew Conger	New Zealand	1	0	0	1	1
Jair Marrufo	United States	1	0	0	1	1

By team

Team				Red cards	Players suspended for World Cup matches
Colombia	1	0	9	Carlos Sánchez Moreno vs Japan (GS) (denying a goal by handling)	Carlos Sánchez Moreno vs Poland (GS)
Switzerland	1	0	9	Michael Lang vs Sweden (R16) (denying a goalscoring chance)	Stephan Lichtsteiner and Fabian Schär vs Sweden (R16)[note 1]
Russia	0	1	6	Igor Smolnikov vs Uruguay (GS)	Igor Smolnikov vs Spain (R16)
Germany	0	1	2	Jérôme Boateng vs Sweden (GS)	Jérôme Boateng vs South Korea (GS)
Croatia	0	0	15
France	0	0	12		Blaise Matuidi vs Uruguay (QF)
Argentina	0	0	11
Belgium	0	0	11		Thomas Meunier vs France (SF)
Panama	0	0	11		Armando Cooper and Michael Amir Murillo vs Tunisia (GS)
South Korea	0	0	10
Mexico	0	0	9		Héctor Moreno vs Brazil (R16)
Serbia	0	0	9
England	0	0	8
Morocco	0	0	8
Sweden	0	0	8		Sebastian Larsson vs Switzerland (R16) Mikael Lustig vs England (QF)
Australia	0	0	7
Brazil	0	0	7		Casemiro vs Belgium (QF)
Iran	0	0	7
Portugal	0	0	7
Costa Rica	0	0	6
Denmark	0	0	6		Yussuf Poulsen vs France (GS)
Senegal	0	0	6
Egypt	0	0	5
Japan	0	0	5
Peru	0	0	5
Nigeria	0	0	4
Tunisia	0	0	4
Iceland	0	0	3
Poland	0	0	3
Uruguay	0	0	3
Spain	0	0	2
Saudi Arabia	0	0	1

By player

Name	Team				Suspended for match(es):
Carlos Sánchez Moreno	Colombia	1	0	1	vs Poland (GS)
Michael Lang	Switzerland	1	0	0	[note 1]
Jérôme Boateng	Germany	0	1	0	vs South Korea (GS)
Igor Smolnikov	Russia	0	1	0	vs Spain (R16)
Sebastian Larsson	Sweden	0	0	3	vs Switzerland (R16)
Toby Alderweireld	Belgium	0	0	2
Éver Banega	Argentina	0	0	2
Wílmar Barrios	Colombia	0	0	2
Valon Behrami	Switzerland	0	0	2
Rodrigo Bentancur	Uruguay	0	0	2
Casemiro	Brazil	0	0	2	vs Belgium (QF)
Armando Cooper	Panama	0	0	2	vs Tunisia (GS)
Karim El Ahmadi	Morocco	0	0	2
Yury Gazinsky	Russia	0	0	2
Lucas Hernández	France	0	0	2
Héctor Herrera	Mexico	0	0	2
Mathias Jørgensen	Denmark	0	0	2
Jung Woo-young	South Korea	0	0	2
N'Golo Kanté	France	0	0	2
Stephan Lichtsteiner	Switzerland	0	0	2	vs Sweden (R16)
Mikael Lustig	Sweden	0	0	2	vs England (QF)
Harry Maguire	England	0	0	2
Mario Mandžukić	Croatia	0	0	2
Javier Mascherano	Argentina	0	0	2
Nemanja Matić	Serbia	0	0	2
Blaise Matuidi	France	0	0	2	vs Uruguay (QF)
Kylian Mbappé	France	0	0	2
Thomas Meunier	Belgium	0	0	2	vs France (SF)
Aleksandar Mitrović	Serbia	0	0	2
Héctor Moreno	Mexico	0	0	2	vs Brazil (R16)
Michael Amir Murillo	Panama	0	0	2	vs Tunisia (GS)
M'Baye Niang	Senegal	0	0	2
Nicolás Otamendi	Argentina	0	0	2
Yussuf Poulsen	Denmark	0	0	2	vs France (GS)
Ante Rebić	Croatia	0	0	2
Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	0	0	2
Ferjani Sassi	Tunisia	0	0	2
Fabian Schär	Switzerland	0	0	2	vs Sweden (R16)
Jan Vertonghen	Belgium	0	0	2
Šime Vrsaljko	Croatia	0	0	2
Kyle Walker	England	0	0	2
Johnny Acosta	Costa Rica	0	0	1
Marcos Acuña	Argentina	0	0	1
Taisir Al-Jassim	Saudi Arabia	0	0	1
Edson Álvarez	Mexico	0	0	1
Vahid Amiri	Iran	0	0	1
Nordin Amrabat	Morocco	0	0	1
Karim Ansarifard	Iran	0	0	1
Pedro Aquino	Peru	0	0	1
Santiago Arias	Colombia	0	0	1
Daniel Arzani	Australia	0	0	1
Ricardo Ávila	Panama	0	0	1
Sardar Azmoun	Iran	0	0	1
Carlos Bacca	Colombia	0	0	1
Anice Badri	Tunisia	0	0	1
Leon Balogun	Nigeria	0	0	1
Édgar Yoel Bárcenas	Panama	0	0	1
Jan Bednarek	Poland	0	0	1
Aziz Behich	Australia	0	0	1
Medhi Benatia	Morocco	0	0	1
Mbark Boussoufa	Morocco	0	0	1
Marcelo Brozović	Croatia	0	0	1
Sergio Busquets	Spain	0	0	1
Francisco Calvo	Costa Rica	0	0	1
Joel Campbell	Costa Rica	0	0	1
Cédric Soares	Portugal	0	0	1
Ghailene Chaalali	Tunisia	0	0	1
Viktor Claesson	Sweden	0	0	1
Vedran Ćorluka	Croatia	0	0	1
Philippe Coutinho	Brazil	0	0	1
Juan Cuadrado	Colombia	0	0	1
Manuel da Costa	Morocco	0	0	1
Erick Davis	Panama	0	0	1
Kevin De Bruyne	Belgium	0	0	1
Thomas Delaney	Denmark	0	0	1
Leander Dendoncker	Belgium	0	0	1
Omid Ebrahimi	Iran	0	0	1
Albin Ekdal	Sweden	0	0	1
Fidel Escobar	Panama	0	0	1
Fagner Conserva Lemos	Brazil	0	0	1
Radamel Falcao	Colombia	0	0	1
Ahmed Fathy	Egypt	0	0	1
Bruno Fernandes	Portugal	0	0	1
Fernandinho	Brazil	0	0	1
Filipe Luís	Brazil	0	0	1
Alfreð Finnbogason	Iceland	0	0	1
Ali Gabr	Egypt	0	0	1
Jesús Gallardo	Mexico	0	0	1
Cristian Gamboa	Costa Rica	0	0	1
Olivier Giroud	France	0	0	1
Aníbal Godoy	Panama	0	0	1
Aleksandr Golovin	Russia	0	0	1
Gabriel Gómez	Panama	0	0	1
Jacek Góralski	Poland	0	0	1
Andrés Guardado	Mexico	0	0	1
Raphaël Guerreiro	Portugal	0	0	1
Paolo Guerrero	Peru	0	0	1
Idrissa Gueye	Senegal	0	0	1
John Guidetti	Sweden	0	0	1
David Guzmán	Costa Rica	0	0	1
Ehsan Hajsafi	Iran	0	0	1
Achraf Hakimi	Morocco	0	0	1
Emil Hallfreðsson	Iceland	0	0	1
Eden Hazard	Belgium	0	0	1
Makoto Hasebe	Japan	0	0	1
Ahmed Hegazi	Egypt	0	0	1
Jordan Henderson	England	0	0	1
Mats Hummels	Germany	0	0	1
Paolo Hurtado	Peru	0	0	1
Hwang Hee-chan	South Korea	0	0	1
Brian Idowu	Nigeria	0	0	1
Takashi Inui	Japan	0	0	1
Branislav Ivanović	Serbia	0	0	1
Alireza Jahanbakhsh	Iran	0	0	1
Mile Jedinak	Australia	0	0	1
Tin Jedvaj	Croatia	0	0	1
Eiji Kawashima	Japan	0	0	1
Kim Shin-wook	South Korea	0	0	1
Kim Young-gwon	South Korea	0	0	1
Grzegorz Krychowiak	Poland	0	0	1
Ilya Kutepov	Russia	0	0	1
Miguel Layún	Mexico	0	0	1
Mathew Leckie	Australia	0	0	1
Lee Jae-sung	South Korea	0	0	1
Lee Seung-woo	South Korea	0	0	1
Lee Yong	South Korea	0	0	1
Jesse Lingard	England	0	0	1
Adem Ljajić	Serbia	0	0	1
Ruben Loftus-Cheek	England	0	0	1
Dejan Lovren	Croatia	0	0	1
Tomoaki Makino	Japan	0	0	1
Gabriel Mercado	Argentina	0	0	1
Lionel Messi	Argentina	0	0	1
John Obi Mikel	Nigeria	0	0	1
Mark Milligan	Australia	0	0	1
Sergej Milinković-Savić	Serbia	0	0	1
Luka Milivojević	Serbia	0	0	1
Johan Mojica	Colombia	0	0	1
Moon Seon-min	South Korea	0	0	1
Sam Morsy	Egypt	0	0	1
Thomas Müller	Germany	0	0	1
Munir Mohand Mohamedi	Morocco	0	0	1
Cheikh N'Doye	Senegal	0	0	1
Neymar	Brazil	0	0	1
Benjamin Pavard	France	0	0	1
Gerard Piqué	Spain	0	0	1
Josip Pivarić	Croatia	0	0	1
Marko Pjaca	Croatia	0	0	1
Paul Pogba	France	0	0	1
Aleksandar Prijović	Serbia	0	0	1
Ricardo Quaresma	Portugal	0	0	1
Ivan Rakitić	Croatia	0	0	1
Josh Risdon	Australia	0	0	1
Cristian Rodríguez	Uruguay	0	0	1
James Rodríguez	Colombia	0	0	1
Tom Rogic	Australia	0	0	1
Marcos Rojo	Argentina	0	0	1
Youssouf Sabaly	Senegal	0	0	1
Birkir Már Sævarsson	Iceland	0	0	1
Carlos Salcedo	Mexico	0	0	1
Salif Sané	Senegal	0	0	1
Xherdan Shaqiri	Switzerland	0	0	1
Masoud Shojaei	Iran	0	0	1
Gaku Shibasaki	Japan	0	0	1
Adrien Silva	Portugal	0	0	1
Pione Sisto	Denmark	0	0	1
Fyodor Smolov	Russia	0	0	1
Son Heung-min	South Korea	0	0	1
John Stones	England	0	0	1
Ivan Strinić	Croatia	0	0	1
Nicolás Tagliafico	Argentina	0	0	1
Renato Tapia	Peru	0	0	1
Youri Tielemans	Belgium	0	0	1
Luis Tejada	Panama	0	0	1
Corentin Tolisso	France	0	0	1
Trézéguet	Egypt	0	0	1
William Troost-Ekong	Nigeria	0	0	1
Domagoj Vida	Croatia	0	0	1
Kendall Waston	Costa Rica	0	0	1
Axel Witsel	Belgium	0	0	1
Granit Xhaka	Switzerland	0	0	1
Yoshimar Yotún	Peru	0	0	1
Denis Zakaria	Switzerland	0	0	1
Roman Zobnin	Russia	0	0	1

Source: ^[2]

Notes

1. As Lang was sent off in Switzerland's last match of the tournament, he will serve a suspension during the next competitive game of Switzerland (vs Iceland in 2018–19 UEFA Nations League).