Question Number: 30823

9/26/2016

RE: Professional

Haji Hussain Jan of Muscat, Muscat Oman asks...

if a player gets a yellow card in a match (first Round) and after 20 minutes he is sent off for denying an obvious goal opportunity. He is suspended for next match. After his suspension is he carrying the yellow card in his record (gets a yellow in 3rd match. will he be suspended in 4th match)?

Answer provided by Referee Joe McHugh

Hi Haji
When a player is sent off for two cautions it is recorded as a dismissal not two cautions on his record. The cautions / yellow cards in the sending off do not count towards the accumulation of cautions. The sending off though can be taken into account in future discipline decisions as a player with a poor disciplinary record will receive little sympathy. Indeed some disciplinary codes require that a player with a second dismissal in a short period must be sanctioned with an extra game ban to the normal sanction so depending on the offence it can be two game suspension instead of one , four instead of three etc.