Euro 2020 Red Cards And Yellow Cards

European Football Tournament Statistics

• At Euro 2020 Switzerland have the worst yellow card record with 10 from 5 games, followed by North Macedonia with 8 from 3 games.  

• Tournament Red cards currently stand at 5. 

• Euro 2020 finalists Italy have 7 yellows and England have 5.

Euro Tournaments Booking Statistics Since 2004

The 2004 European Championships held in Portugal was the worst tournament for discipline.

It had an average of 5 cards per match when the norm is closer to 4. 

Greece received 18 yellow cards in surprisingly winning the 2004 tournament.

Euro 2020 Discipline In Qualification

We analysed and collated all the red and yellow cards teams received in qualification.

You can see that countries played between 8 and 12 games. 

Hungary and Slovakia received 2 red cards in qualification. 

Germany was the star team on the discipline front, keeping their cool the most.

North Macedonia averaged 3 yellows a game and will need to improve their behaviour and tackling not to top the list at the Euro 2021. 

Wales needs to be noted as they only played 8 games but received 21 yellow cards, which is 2.625 per game. 

Croatia was another team who only played 8 games but racked up 17 yellow cards. 

Euro 2020 Player Booking And Sending Off In Qualification

We have produced the most booked players in the European Qualification games. 

Any player with 3 or more bookings features in the table. 

You can see some countries had no players with 3 or more bookings. 

For those tipsters who like to use Request A Bet or Bet Builders, it can be helpful to know which players from which countries are likely to receive a yellow/red card.

The OLBG betting school has the definitive guide to this type of bet. 

The red-carded players in qualification matches are listed below. 

Key Disciplinary Games - Group Stages

Obviously, any game has the ability to throw up yellow and red cards, 

It is often to do with the lack of authority of the referee or when neighbouring countries take each other on such as Russia v Ukraine or in the final games when qualifying is at stake.  

We have highlighted four games that have the ability to get out of hand on the bookings front. 

Three because their records in qualifying have shown a level of indiscipline, and one England v Scotland due to years of rivalry + it could be in crucial on which home nation progresses.