List of FIFA World Cup red cards

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This is a list of all red cards shown during FIFA World Cups; that is, the occasions when a player has been expelled from the game in a football World Cup Finals match (not including qualifying matches). As FIFA is the governing body of football, official red cards are only noted when FIFA recognised that a player was expelled or sent off in a match.

This list includes all dismissals since the first FIFA World Cup in 1930. The use of red and yellow cards to respectively indicate dismissals and cautions is a more recent invention, having been introduced at the 1970 tournament.

Notable World Cup red cards[]

• Plácido Galindo was the first player to be sent off in a World Cup match, playing for Peru on 14 July 1930 against Romania.
• Uruguay's José Batista received the quickest red card when he was sent off in the first minute in 1986 for bringing down Gordon Strachan in a game against Scotland.
• Five players have been sent off in the final. Argentina's Pedro Monzón was the first in 1990 and was quickly followed by teammate Gustavo Dezotti in the same match. Marcel Desailly, playing for France in 1998, was the first player to be sent off from the winning team in the final. In 2006, Zinedine Zidane of France, who scored twice in 1998, would become the first captain to be sent off in the final.
• Argentina's Claudio Caniggia became the first person to be sent off from the substitute's bench, after he swore at the referee in a game against Sweden in 2002.
• The most players sent off on one day occurred on 18 June 1998 when five players received a red card across two different first round matches.
• The 2006 tournament had the highest amount of red cards; a total of 27 players were sent off.
• Rigobert Song became the first player to receive two red cards – one in 1994 and one in 1998. Zinedine Zidane replicated this in 1998 and 2006.
• Three South American countries lead the list of most red cards for a national team with Brazil having 11 players dismissed. Argentina have had 10 players sent off, and Uruguay 9 players.
• The single World Cup match with the greatest number of red cards was the Portugal-Netherlands game in the second round of the 2006 World Cup, this match also known as the "Battle of Nuremberg". 4 players, 2 from each team, were sent off; overall referee Valentin Ivanov dished out 16 yellow cards and 4 red cards, the greatest number of players booked and sent off in any one match.
• The physical red card was introduced in 1970, but nobody was sent off. Carlos Caszely of Chile became the first person to receive a red card, after his second yellow card against West Germany in 1974, for bringing down Berti Vogts.^{[citation needed]} Chile lost 1–0.

List of World Cup red cards[]

No.	Player	Card combination	Time of card(s)	Representing	Final Score	Opponent	Tournament	Round	Date
1.	Plácido Galindo		54'	Peru	1–3	Romania	1930, Uruguay	First round	14 July 1930
2.	Imre Markos		63'	Hungary	1–2	Austria	1934, Italy	Quarter-finals	31 May 1934
3.	Hans Pesser		96'	Germany	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Switzerland	1938, France	First round	4 June 1938
4.	Zezé Procópio		14'	Brazil	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Czechoslovakia		Quarter-finals	12 June 1938
5.	Jan Říha		89'	Czechoslovakia	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Brazil		Quarter-finals	12 June 1938
6.	Machado		89'	Brazil	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Czechoslovakia		Quarter-finals	12 June 1938
7.	József Bozsik		71'	Hungary	4–2	Brazil	1954, Switzerland	Quarter-finals	27 June 1954
8.	Nílton Santos		71'	Brazil	2–4	Hungary		Quarter-finals	27 June 1954
9.	Humberto		79'	Brazil	2–4	Hungary		Quarter-finals	27 June 1954
10.	Ferenc Sipos		79'	Hungary	1–2	Wales	1958, Sweden	First round	17 June 1958
11.	Titus Buberník		102'	Czechoslovakia	1–2	Northern Ireland		First round	17 June 1958
12.	Erich Juskowiak		59'	West Germany	1–3	Sweden		Semi-finals	24 June 1958
13.	Giorgio Ferrini		8'	Italy	0–2	Chile	1962, Chile	First round	2 June 1962
14.	Mario David		41'	Italy	0–2	Chile		First round	2 June 1962
15.	Ángel Cabrera		71'	Uruguay	1–3	Yugoslavia		First round	2 June 1962
16.	Vladica Popović		71'	Yugoslavia	3–1	Uruguay		First round	2 June 1962
17.	Honorino Landa		80'	Chile	2–4	Brazil		Semi-finals	13 June 1962
18.	Garrincha		83'	Brazil	4–2	Chile		Semi-finals	13 June 1962
19.	Rafael Albrecht		65'	Argentina	0–0	West Germany	1966, England	First round	16 July 1966
20.	Antonio Rattín		35'	Argentina	0–1	England		Quarter-finals	23 July 1966
21.	Horacio Troche		49'	Uruguay	0–4	West Germany		Quarter-finals	23 July 1966
22.	Héctor Silva		54'	Uruguay	0–4	West Germany		Quarter-finals	23 July 1966
23.	Igor Chislenko		44'	Soviet Union	1–2	West Germany		Semi-finals	25 July 1966
24.	Carlos Caszely		13', 67'	Chile	0–1	West Germany	1974, West Germany	First round	14 June 1974
25.	Julio Montero Castillo		69'	Uruguay	0–2	Netherlands		First round	15 June 1974
26.	Mulamba Ndaye		22'	Zaire	0–9	Yugoslavia		First round	18 June 1974
27.	Ray Richards		37', 83'	Australia	0–0	Chile		First round	22 June 1974
28.	Luís Pereira		84'	Brazil	0–2	Netherlands		Second round	3 July 1974
29.	András Törõcsik		48', 82'	Hungary	1–2	Argentina	1978, Argentina	First round	2 June 1978
30.	Tibor Nyilasi		21', 89'	Hungary	1–2	Argentina		First round	2 June 1978
31.	Dick Nanninga		88'	Netherlands	2–2	West Germany		Second round	18 June 1978
32.	Ladislav Vízek		87'	Czechoslovakia	1–1	France	1982, Spain	First round	24 June 1982
33.	Gilberto Yearwood		89'	Honduras	0–1	Yugoslavia		First round	24 June 1982
34.	Mal Donaghy		62'	Northern Ireland	1–0	Spain		First round	25 June 1982
35.	Américo Gallego		84'	Argentina	1–2	Italy		Second round	29 June 1982
36.	Diego Maradona		85'	Argentina	1–3	Brazil		Second round	2 July 1982
37.	Mike Sweeney		52', 85'	Canada	0–2	Hungary	1986, Mexico	First round	6 June 1986
38.	Ray Wilkins		40', 42'	England	0–0	Morocco		First round	6 June 1986
39.	Basil Gorgis		52'	Iraq	1–2	Belgium		First round	8 June 1986
40.	Miguel Bossio		13', 19'	Uruguay	1–6	Denmark		First round	8 June 1986
41.	José Batista		1'	Uruguay	0–0	Scotland		First round	13 June 1986
42.	Frank Arnesen		36', 88'	Denmark	2–0	West Germany		First round	13 June 1986
43.	Thomas Berthold		64'	West Germany	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Mexico		Quarter-finals	21 June 1986
44.	Javier Aguirre		20', 100'	Mexico	0–0 (a.e.t.)	West Germany		Quarter-finals	21 June 1986
45.	André Kana-Biyik		61'	Cameroon	1–0	Argentina	1990, Italy	First round	8 June 1990
46.	Benjamin Massing		10', 89'	Cameroon	1–0	Argentina		First round	8 June 1990
47.	Eric Wynalda		52'	United States	1–5	Czechoslovakia		First round	10 June 1990
48.	Volodymyr Bezsonov		48'	Soviet Union	0–2	Argentina		First round	13 June 1990
49.	Eric Gerets		35', 42'	Belgium	3–1	Uruguay		First round	17 June 1990
50.	Khalil Ghanim		36', 76'	United Arab Emirates	1–4	Yugoslavia		First round	19 June 1990
51.	Peter Artner		34'	Austria	2–1	United States		First round	19 June 1990
52.	Yoon Deuk-yeo		70'	South Korea	0–1	Uruguay		First round	21 June 1990
53.	Ricardo Gomes		85'	Brazil	0–1	Argentina		Second round	24 June 1990
54.	Rudi Völler		22'	West Germany	2–1	Netherlands		Second round	24 June 1990
55.	Frank Rijkaard		22'	Netherlands	1–2	West Germany		Second round	24 June 1990
56.	Refik Šabanadžović		31'	Yugoslavia	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Argentina		Quarter-finals	30 June 1990
57.	Ľubomír Moravčík		11', 70'	Czechoslovakia	0–1	West Germany		Quarter-finals	1 July 1990
58.	Ricardo Giusti		103'	Argentina	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Italy		Semi-finals	3 July 1990
59.	Pedro Monzón		65'	Argentina	0–1	West Germany		Final	8 July 1990
60.	Gustavo Dezotti		5', 87'	Argentina	0–1	West Germany		Final	8 July 1990
61.	Marco Etcheverry		84'	Bolivia	0–1	Germany	1994, United States	First round	17 June 1994
62.	Miguel Ángel Nadal		26'	Spain	2–2	South Korea		First round	17 June 1994
63.	Ion Vlădoiu		74'	Romania	1–4	Switzerland		First round	22 June 1994
64.	Gianluca Pagliuca		21'	Italy	1–0	Norway		First round	23 June 1994
65.	Luis Cristaldo		22', 82'	Bolivia	0–0	South Korea		First round	23 June 1994
66.	Rigobert Song		84'	Cameroon	0–3	Brazil		First round	24 June 1994
67.	Sergei Gorlukovich		1', 49'	Russia	1–3	Sweden		First round	24 June 1994
68.	Tsanko Tsvetanov		45', 67'	Bulgaria	2–0	Argentina		First round	30 June 1994
69.	Leonardo		44'	Brazil	1–0	United States		Second round	4 July 1994
70.	Fernando Clavijo		64', 85'	United States	0–1	Brazil		Second round	4 July 1994
71.	Gianfranco Zola		76'	Italy	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Nigeria		Second round	5 July 1994
72.	Emil Kremenliev		12', 50'	Bulgaria	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Mexico		Second round	5 July 1994
73.	Luis García		28', 57'	Mexico	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Bulgaria		Second round	5 July 1994
74.	Stefan Schwarz		43', 101'	Sweden	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Romania		Quarter-finals	10 July 1994
75.	Jonas Thern		64'	Sweden	0–1	Brazil		Semi-finals	13 July 1994
76.	Anatoli Nankov		27', 89'	Bulgaria	0–0	Paraguay	1998, France	First round	12 June 1998
77.	Ha Seok-ju		30'	South Korea	1–3	Mexico		First round	13 June 1998
78.	Patrick Kluivert		79'	Netherlands	0–0	Belgium		First round	13 June 1998
79.	Raymond Kalla		43'	Cameroon	0–3	Italy		First round	17 June 1998
80.	Miklos Molnar		67'	Denmark	1–1	South Africa		First round	18 June 1998
81.	Alfred Phiri		65', 68'	South Africa	1–1	Denmark		First round	18 June 1998
82.	Morten Wieghorst		85'	Denmark	1–1	South Africa		First round	18 June 1998
83.	Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi		19'	Saudi Arabia	0–4	France		First round	18 June 1998
84.	Zinedine Zidane		71'	France	4–0	Saudi Arabia		First round	18 June 1998
85.	Pável Pardo		29'	Mexico	2–2	Belgium		First round	20 June 1998
86.	Gert Verheyen		55'	Belgium	2–2	Mexico		First round	20 June 1998
87.	Darryl Powell		4', 45+1'	Jamaica	0–5	Argentina		First round	21 June 1998
88.	Rigobert Song (2)		8', 51'	Cameroon	1–1	Chile		First round	23 June 1998
89.	Lauren		89'	Cameroon	1–1	Chile		First round	23 June 1998
90.	Craig Burley		54'	Scotland	0–3	Morocco		First round	23 June 1998
91.	Ramón Ramírez		89'	Mexico	2–2	Netherlands		First round	25 June 1998
92.	David Beckham		47'	England	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Argentina		Second round	30 June 1998
93.	Arthur Numan		17', 76'	Netherlands	2–1	Argentina		Quarter-finals	4 July 1998
94.	Ariel Ortega		87'	Argentina	1–2	Netherlands		Quarter-finals	4 July 1998
95.	Christian Wörns		40'	Germany	0–3	Croatia		Quarter-finals	4 July 1998
96.	Laurent Blanc		74'	France	2–1	Croatia		Semi-finals	8 July 1998
97.	Marcel Desailly		48', 68'	France	3–0	Brazil		Final	12 July 1998
98.	Boris Živković		59'	Croatia	0–1	Mexico	2002, South Korea/Japan	First round	3 June 2002
99.	Alpay Özalan		86'	Turkey	1–2	Brazil		First round	3 June 2002
100.	Hakan Ünsal		24', 90+4'	Turkey	1–2	Brazil		First round	3 June 2002
101.	Thierry Henry		25'	France	0–0	Uruguay		First round	6 June 2002
102.	Salif Diao		62'	Senegal	1–1	Denmark		First round	6 June 2002
103.	Carsten Ramelow		37', 40'	Germany	2–0	Cameroon		First round	11 June 2002
104.	Patrick Suffo		60', 77'	Cameroon	0–2	Germany		First round	11 June 2002
105.	Claudio Caniggia[1]		45'	Argentina	1–1	Sweden		First round	12 June 2002
106.	Carlos Paredes		4', 22'	Paraguay	3–1	Slovenia		First round	12 June 2002
107.	Nastja Čeh		81'	Slovenia	1–3	Paraguay		First round	12 June 2002
108.	Shao Jiayi		58'	China PR	0–3	Turkey		First round	13 June 2002
109.	João Pinto		27'	Portugal	0–1	South Korea		First round	14 June 2002
110.	Beto		22', 66'	Portugal	0–1	South Korea		First round	14 June 2002
111.	Roberto Acuña		90+2'	Paraguay	0–1	Germany		Second round	15 June 2002
112.	Rafael Márquez		88'	Mexico	0–2	United States		Second round	17 June 2002
113.	Francesco Totti		22', 103'	Italy	1–2 (a.e.t.)	South Korea		Second round	18 June 2002
114.	Ronaldinho		57'	Brazil	2–1	England		Quarter-finals	21 June 2002
115.	Avery John		15', 46'	Trinidad and Tobago	0–0	Sweden	2006, Germany	First round	10 June 2006
116.	Jean-Paul Abalo		23', 53'	Togo	1–2	South Korea		First round	13 June 2006
117.	Vladyslav Vashchuk		47'	Ukraine	0–4	Spain		First round	14 June 2006
118.	Radosław Sobolewski		28', 75'	Poland	0–1	Germany		First round	14 June 2006
119.	Mateja Kežman		65'	Serbia and Montenegro	0–6	Argentina		First round	16 June 2006
120.	André Macanga		44', 79'	Angola	0–0	Mexico		First round	16 June 2006
121.	Tomáš Ujfaluši		66'	Czech Republic	0–2	Ghana		First round	17 June 2006
122.	Daniele De Rossi		28'	Italy	1–1	United States		First round	17 June 2006
123.	Pablo Mastroeni		45'	United States	1–1	Italy		First round	17 June 2006
124.	Eddie Pope		21', 47'	United States	1–1	Italy		First round	17 June 2006
125.	Luis Pérez		27', 61'	Mexico	1–2	Portugal		First round	21 June 2006
126.	Albert Nađ		17', 45+1'	Serbia and Montenegro	2–3	Ivory Coast		First round	21 June 2006
127.	Cyril Domoraud		41', 90+2'	Ivory Coast	3–2	Serbia and Montenegro		First round	21 June 2006
128.	Jan Polák		35', 45+2'	Czech Republic	0–2	Italy		First round	22 June 2006
129.	Dario Šimić		32', 85'	Croatia	2–2	Australia		First round	22 June 2006
130.	Brett Emerton		81', 87'	Australia	2–2	Croatia		First round	22 June 2006
131.	Josip Šimunić[2]		61', 90+3'	Croatia	2–2	Australia		First round	22 June 2006
132.	Ziad Jaziri		9', 45+1'	Tunisia	0–1	Ukraine		First round	23 June 2006
133.	Teddy Lučić		28', 35'	Sweden	0–2	Germany		Second round	24 June 2006
134.	Costinha		31', 45+1'	Portugal	1–0	Netherlands		Second round	25 June 2006
135.	Khalid Boulahrouz		7', 64'	Netherlands	0–1	Portugal		Second round	25 June 2006
136.	Deco		73', 78'	Portugal	1–0	Netherlands		Second round	25 June 2006
137.	Giovanni van Bronckhorst		59', 90+5'	Netherlands	0–1	Portugal		Second round	25 June 2006
138.	Marco Materazzi		51'	Italy	1–0	Australia		Second round	26 June 2006
139.	Asamoah Gyan		48', 81'	Ghana	0–3	Brazil		Second round	27 June 2006
140.	Leandro Cufré[1]		120'	Argentina	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Germany		Quarter-finals	30 June 2006
141.	Wayne Rooney		62'	England	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Portugal		Quarter-finals	1 July 2006
142.	Zinedine Zidane (2)		110'	France	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Italy		Final	9 July 2006
143.	Nicolás Lodeiro		65', 81'	Uruguay	0–0	France	2010, South Africa	First round	11 June 2010
144.	Abdelkader Ghezzal		59', 73'	Algeria	0–1	Slovenia		First round	13 June 2010
145.	Aleksandar Luković		54', 74'	Serbia	0–1	Ghana		First round	13 June 2010
146.	Tim Cahill		56'	Australia	0–4	Germany		First round	13 June 2010
147.	Itumeleng Khune		76'	South Africa	0–3	Uruguay		First round	16 June 2010
148.	Sani Kaita		33'	Nigeria	1–2	Greece		First round	17 June 2010
149.	Miroslav Klose		12', 37'	Germany	0–1	Serbia		First round	18 June 2010
150.	Harry Kewell		24'	Australia	1–1	Ghana		First round	19 June 2010
151.	Kaká		85', 88'	Brazil	3–1	Ivory Coast		First round	20 June 2010
152.	Valon Behrami		31'	Switzerland	0–1	Chile		First round	21 June 2010
153.	Yoann Gourcuff		25'	France	1–2	South Africa		First round	22 June 2010
154.	Antar Yahia		76', 90+3'	Algeria	0–1	United States		First round	23 June 2010
155.	Marco Estrada		21', 37'	Chile	1–2	Spain		First round	25 June 2010
156.	Ricardo Costa		89'	Portugal	0–1	Spain		Second round	29 June 2010
157.	Felipe Melo		73'	Brazil	1–2	Netherlands		Quarter-finals	2 July 2010
158.	Luis Suárez		120+1'	Uruguay	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Ghana		Quarter-finals	2 July 2010
159.	John Heitinga		56', 109'	Netherlands	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Spain		Final	11 July 2010
160.	Maxi Pereira		90+4'	Uruguay	1–3	Costa Rica	2014, Brazil	First round	14 June 2014
161.	Wilson Palacios		28', 44'	Honduras	0–3	France		First round	15 June 2014
162.	Pepe		37'	Portugal	0–4	Germany		First round	16 June 2014
163.	Alex Song		40'	Cameroon	0–4	Croatia		First round	18 June 2014
164.	Kostas Katsouranis		27', 38'	Greece	0–0	Japan		First round	19 June 2014
165.	Ante Rebić		89'	Croatia	1–3	Mexico		First round	23 June 2014
166.	Claudio Marchisio		59'	Italy	0–1	Uruguay		First round	24 June 2014
167.	Antonio Valencia		48'	Ecuador	0–0	France		First round	25 June 2014
168.	Steven Defour		45'	Belgium	1–0	South Korea		First round	26 June 2014
169.	Óscar Duarte		42', 66'	Costa Rica	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Greece		Second round	29 June 2014
170.	Carlos Sánchez		4'	Colombia	1–2	Japan	2018, Russia	First round	19 June 2018
171.	Jérôme Boateng		71', 82'	Germany	2–1	Sweden		First round	23 June 2018
172.	Igor Smolnikov		27', 36'	Russia	0–3	Uruguay		First round	25 June 2018
173.	Michael Lang		90+4'	Switzerland	0–1	Sweden		Second round	3 July 2018

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