Yellow Card Betting Odds And Historical Statistics

Yellow Card Football Betting Markets

Betting on Yellow Cards

The best betting sites generally offer

• First Team Booking
• First Player Booking
• To Be Shown A Card
• Player To Be Sent Off
• Total Cards

The bookings market tends to be added to bookmaker lists of markets when they have a "rough" idea of which players are going to be involved in the game. 

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Below can see the disciplinary odds for an EPL game between Leeds United and Newcastle United in the 2021/22 EPL season, this will give you a kind of idea of the odds available in the bookings markets. 

The odds for First Team Booking and First Player Booking are regularly as above. 

The odds for an individual named player to be shown a card generally go between 1/1 (2.0) and around 7/1 (8.0).

Spread betting firms Sporting Index and Spreadex have a Booking Points market, here they award 25 Points for a red and 10 for a yellow, with a maximum of 35 for any player.

Depending on the teams taking part these spreads are normally around the 40-45 mark. 

How To Place  A Yellow Card Bet

There is a simple process to making a bet on yellow cards the odds will always be available. 

1. Select an online bookmaker offering the best odds for the player you think will be booked. 
2. Make that selection and add them to your bet slip
3. Select the stake you wish to wager
4. Confirm
5. You can double-check your bet is on by visiting the history section of your account.

That's it, you are done, your wager is on, and now all you have to do is wait until the match finishes.

If you make the right selection, you win, if your prediction is incorrect you will lose the stake you have wagered just as with any normal bet. 

Accumulators & Bet Builders & Request A Bet

Many of us love accumulating selections for a big payout, and the accumulator tips page is a good starting point. 

Bet builders are becoming increasingly popular and yellow cards are often included as an option in these bet builders. 

EPL Yellow Cards 2021/22 Season

• A total of 1300 yellow cards from 380 EPL games in the 2021/22 season.

• Leeds United topped the bookings table with 101 followed by Aston Villa and Newcastle United with 79

• The Yorkshire club broke the EPL record for most yellow cards in a season - (Sunderland received 94 in the 2014/15 season).

• James Tarkowski (Burnley), Junior Firpo (Leeds), and Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa) received the most yellow cards in 2021/22. 

• Referee Craig Pawson issued the most yellow cards this season with 109 from 26 games.  
  
  

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When placing a single or a request a bet wager it is always good to know which players are prone to a yellow card. 

Below you can see the players and teams who have received the most cards in the current 2021/22 EPL season. 

These tables will be updated every week after each round of EPL games, we hope you can glean helpful info from the table. 

Booking odds do vary between the best betting sites so please shop around for the biggest odds. 

If any of the top 6 teams in the bookings table are playing against each other then you could consider that it may be a game with plenty of yellow cards. 

We saw in the recent game between Leeds v Manchester United this in action, with 9 yellow cards issued by referee Paul Tierney. 

All 9 bookings came in the second half!

EPL Referee Statistics

EPL Yellow Cards 2016 -2021