A yellow card is a warning to a player, and if they get two yellow cards in a game, they get sent off. The team isn't allowed to send on a substitute.

The system of yellow and red cards was officially introduced to the Fifa World Cup in 1970. Before this, players were sent off or given warnings, but without something visual like a card to show ...

The league has introduced a new series of rules to curtail what it calls “intolerable behavior” that could see a rapid rise in the number of yellow and red cards referees will give out.

The International Football Association Board said it is set to introduce a blue card in professional football.

After Tomiyasu was sent off against Palace for a second yellow card, is it worth checking such decisions for such game-altering events?

Explaining how yellow cards in the Premier League work, including suspensions, cut-off points and refereeing stats from the 2024/2025 season.

Football fans will be very familiar with the sight of red and yellow cards that have been a staple of the game since the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. But what may be a more unfamiliar sight to those ...

Red cards and yellow cards During the early part of the World Cup, if a player received a yellow card in two different games during the tournament, he would have been suspended from his team’s ...

The impact on discipline that the new playing enhancements and rules are having has been reflected in a significant drop in the number of red cards issued in Allianz leagues games over the first ...

The rules around suspensions can be confusing and are one of the quirks of English football. Where and when do they apply? How do bans work? When do they apply in different competitions? This ...