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Yellow cards in football

Are there any football leagues in which a single yellow card, not accompanied by a second yellow card (whether in the same match or later) attracts any off-the-pitch sanctions from the league, or in which an accumulation of yellow cards during non-tournament play can attract sanctions of any sort? Yellow card (association football) mentions suspensions for players who get too many yellow cards in certain tournaments, but that's the closest I'm seeing to my hypothetical situation. Nyttend (talk) 00:23, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if this is what you mean but the A-League in Australia has a match review system where incidents resulting in yellow cards can be reviewed to determine whether an obvious error has occurred and a suspension applied. There are many leagues where an accumulation of yellow cards can lead to a suspension.[1][2] Hack (talk) 03:15, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Just out of interest, see Ken Aston for the origin of Yellow cards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.38.221.49 (talk) 08:28, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Such rules exist in the German Bundesliga as well as in the Premier League. The German wikipedia has an article on this (of cause

).

Also, although you excluded tournaments explicitly, I can’t help remembering that this happened to Thiago Silva during the 2014 world cup, leading to a match that Brasilians very much try to forget and we Germans rewatch whenever we’re depressed. Cheers ✦ _hugarheimur 11:35, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the rules for Major League Soccer [3]. In short, the league's disciplinary committee has the right to review yellow card infractions if the play in question should have resulted in a red card in the unequivocal opinion of the committee, and is of an "egregious or reckless nature". This also applies to plays the referee may have missed and which did not result in any sanctions during the game itself. Also, an accumulation of 5 yellow cards in league play leads to a fine and one-game suspension, with escalating discipline for further sanctions. I am confident that most professional leagues around the world have adopted similar rules. --Xuxl (talk) 13:23, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean by "non-tournament play"? Is it friendly matches? What do you mean by "off-the-pitch sanctions"? Does missing a match count, or are you thinking of something like a monetary fine? jnestorius^(talk) 21:17, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe I'm unclear what's meant by tournaments in a football context. In the context of North American major sports, you play a regular season, and tournaments are special competitions, whether a bunch of games at the beginning of the season or during breaks in it (for a random example, see Chicago Invitational Challenge), or the playoffs at the end — but they all count in some way, so they're not friendlies. I was supposing the same to be true in this context; was I wrong? Off-the-pitch — I was excluding only on-the-pitch consequences, i.e. getting sent off if you get two of them in one match; I meant anything that matters after the end of the match when you incur the yellow cards. Nyttend (talk) 00:19, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]