1994 FIFA World Cup disciplinary record
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In the 1994 FIFA World Cup the main disciplinary action taken against players came in the form of red and yellow cards. Any player picking up a red card is automatically banned for his country's next game (if it is a serious offense FIFA may extend this ban to a number of games). Players also receive a one-game ban if they pick up two yellow cards within the group stage or within the knockout stage.
Disciplinary statistics
- Total number of yellow cards: 235
- Average yellow cards per match: 4.52
- Total number of red cards: 15
- Average red cards per match: 0.29
- First yellow card of the tournament: Jürgen Kohler – Germany against Bolivia
- First red card of the tournament: Marco Etcheverry – Bolivia against Germany
- Fastest yellow card from kick off: 1 minute – Sergei Gorlukovich – Russia against Sweden
- Fastest yellow card after coming on as substitute: 2 minutes – Daniel Borimirov – Bulgaria against Greece (introduced in the 82nd minute)
- Latest yellow card in a match without extra time: 90 minutes – José Luis Caminero – Spain against Bolivia, Yuri Nikiforov – Russia against Cameroon, Mohamed Al-Deayea – Saudi Arabia against Morocco
- Latest yellow card in a match with extra time: 108 minutes – Basarab Panduru – Romania against Sweden
- Fastest dismissal from kick off: 21 minutes – Gianluca Pagliuca – Italy against Norway
- Fastest dismissal of a substitute: 3 minutes – Ion Vlădoiu – Romania against Switzerland (introduced in the 80th minute)
- Latest dismissal in a match without extra time: 89 minutes – Gustavo Quinteros – Bolivia against Germany
- Latest dismissal in a match with extra time: 101 minutes – Stefan Schwarz – Sweden against Romania
- Least time difference between two yellow cards given to the same player: 21 minutes – Fernando Clavijo – United States against Brazil (booked in the 64th minute and again in the 85th minute)
- Most yellow cards (team): 23 – Bulgaria
- Most red cards (team): 2 – Bolivia, Bulgaria, Italy, Sweden
- Fewest yellow cards (team): 5 – Cameroon
- Most yellow cards (player): 4 – Zlatko Yankov
- Most red cards (player): 1 – Fernando Clavijo, Luis Cristaldo, Marco Etcheverry, Luis García, Sergei Gorlukovich, Emil Kremenliev, Leonardo, Miguel Ángel Nadal, Gianluca Pagliuca, Stefan Schwarz, Rigobert Song, Jonas Thern, Tsanko Tsvetanov, Ion Vlădoiu, Gianfranco Zola
- Most yellow cards (match): 10 – Mexico vs Bulgaria
- Most red cards (match): 2 – Mexico vs Bulgaria
- Fewest yellow cards (match): 1 – Netherlands vs Republic of Ireland
- Most cards in one match: 10 yellow cards and 2 red cards – Mexico vs Bulgaria
Sanctions
By referee
| Referee | Matches |  Red |
 Yellow |
Red Cards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Joël Quiniou |
4 | 3 | 22 | 1 straight red 2 second yellows |
 José Torres Cadena |
4 | 1 | 21 | 1 straight red |
 Sándor Puhl |
4 | 0 | 11 | |
 Arturo Brizio Carter |
3 | 3 | 18 | 3 straight reds |
 Jamal Al Sharif |
3 | 2 | 19 | 2 second yellows |
 Peter Mikkelsen |
3 | 1 | 10 | 1 straight red |
 Mario van der Ende |
3 | 0 | 15 | |
 Rodrigo Badilla |
3 | 0 | 7 | |
 Neji Jouini |
2 | 2 | 12 | 1 straight red 1 second yellow |
 Philip Don |
2 | 1 | 12 | 1 second yellow |
 Leslie Mottram |
2 | 1 | 11 | 1 second yellow |
 Hellmut Krug |
2 | 1 | 7 | 1 straight red |
 Ali Bujsaim |
2 | 0 | 10 | |
 Renato Marsiglia |
2 | 0 | 10 | |
 Alberto Tejada |
2 | 0 | 9 | |
 Francisco Oscar Lamolina |
2 | 0 | 7 | |
 Kurt Röthlisberger |
2 | 0 | 7 | |
 Pierluigi Pairetto |
1 | 0 | 7 | |
 Manuel Diaz Vega |
1 | 0 | 5 | |
 Filippi Cavani |
1 | 0 | 4 | |
 Arturo Angeles |
1 | 0 | 3 | |
 Bo Karlsson |
1 | 0 | 3 | |
 Lim Kee Chong |
1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Fabio Baldas |
1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Total | 52 | 15 | 235 | 8 straight reds 7 second yellows |
By team
| Team | Yellow |
Red |
Red Cards | Suspensions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina |
9 | 0 | ||
 Belgium |
6 | 0 | J. Weber vs Saudi Arabia | |
 Bolivia |
8 | 2 | M. Etcheverry vs Germany straight red card Luis Cristaldo vs South Korea second yellow card |
M. Etcheverry vs South Korea L. Cristaldo vs Spain |
| Brazil |
8 | 1 | Leonardo vs United States straight red card |
Leonardo vs Netherlands |
 Bulgaria |
23 | 2 | T. Tsvetanov vs Argentina second yellow card E. Kremenliev vs Mexico second yellow card |
T. Tsvetanov vs Mexico (Round of 16) Z. Yankov vs Mexico (Round of 16) E. Kremenliev vs Germany (quarter-final) |
 Cameroon |
5 | 1 | R. Song vs Brazil straight red card |
R. Song vs Russia |
| Colombia |
7 | 0 | ||
| Germany |
13 | 0 | ||
 Greece |
8 | 0 | ||
| Italy |
11 | 2 | G. Pagliuca vs Norway straight red card G. Zola vs Nigeria straight red card |
G. Pagliuca vs Mexico G. Zola vs Spain D. Albertini vs Brazil (final) A. Costacurta vs Brazil (final) |
| Mexico |
11 | 1 | Luis García vs Bulgaria second yellow card |
Claudio Suárez vs Bulgaria J. del Olmo vs Bulgaria (Round of 16) |
 Morocco |
10 | 0 | N. Naybet vs Saudi Arabia | |
| Netherlands |
12 | 0 | J. Wouters vs Republic of Ireland | |
 Nigeria |
9 | 0 | ||
 Norway |
6 | 0 | A. Håland vs Republic of Ireland | |
 Republic of Ireland |
8 | 0 | D. Irwin vs Norway T. Phelan vs Norway |
|
 Romania |
12 | 1 | I. Vlădoiu vs South Korea straight red card |
I. Vlădoiu vs United States F. Răducioiu vs Argentina (Round of 16) |
 Russia |
9 | 1 | S. Gorlukovich vs Sweden second yellow card |
S. Gorlukvich vs Cameroon |
 Saudi Arabia |
10 | 0 | M. Al-Deayea vs Sweden | |
 South Korea |
6 | 0 | ||
| Spain |
13 | 1 | M. Nadal vs South Korea straight red card |
M. Nadal vs Germany |
| Sweden |
14 | 2 | S. Schwarz vs Romania second yellow card J. Thern vs Brazil straight red card |
S. Schwarz vs Brazil J. Thern vs Bulgaria (third-place match) |
| Switzerland |
8 | 0 | ||
| United States |
9 | 1 | F. Clavijo vs Brazil second yellow card |
J. Harkes vs Brazil |
| Total | 235 | 15 |
By individual
- 1 red card
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- 4 yellow cards
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- 3 yellow cards
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- 2 yellow cards
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- Fernando Cáceres
- Oscar Ruggeri
- Julio César Baldivieso
- Luis Cristaldo
- Mazinho
- Emil Kremenliev
- Yordan Letchkov
- Hristo Stoichkov
- Tsanko Tsvetanov
- Leonel Álvarez
- Carlos Valderrama
- Stefan Effenberg
- Thomas Helmer
- Jürgen Klinsmann
- Martin Wagner
- Tasos Mitropoulos
- Alessandro Costacurta
- Noureddine Naybet
- Joaquín del Olmo
- Alberto García Aspe
- Claudio Suárez
- Michael Emenalo
- Sunday Oliseh
- Alf-Inge Håland
- Denis Irwin
- Terry Phelan
- Gheorghe Popescu
- Florin Răducioiu
- Tibor Selymes
- Sergei Gorlukovich
- Dmitri Khlestov
- Yuri Nikiforov
- Khalid Al-Muwallid
- Fuad Amin
- Choi Young-Il
- Abelardo
- Albert Ferrer
- Kennet Andersson
- Martin Dahlin
- Roger Ljung
- Nestor Subiat
- John Harkes
- 1 yellow card
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- Gabriel Batistuta
- Claudio Caniggia
- José Chamot
- Leonardo Rodríguez
- Fernando Redondo
- Philippe Albert
- Vital Borkelmans
- Georges Grün
- Enzo Scifo
- Rudi Smidts
- Josip Weber
- Carlos Borja
- Gustavo Quinteros
- Miguel Rimba
- Vladimir Soria
- Aldair
- Cafu
- Dunga
- Jorginho
- Mauro Silva
- Zinho
- Krassimir Balakov
- Daniel Borimirov
- Petar Houbchev
- Ilian Kiriakov
- Emil Kostadinov
- Borislav Mikhailov
- Nasko Sirakov
- Ivaylo Yordanov
- André Kana-Biyik
- Raymond Kalla
- Emile Mbouh
- Jacques Songo'o
- Stephen Tataw
- Antony de Ávila
- Hernán Gaviria
- Luis Fernando Herrera
- Andreas Brehme
- Thomas Häßler
- Jürgen Kohler
- Andreas Möller
- Rudi Völler
- Alexis Alexoudis
- Minas Hantzidis
- Ioannis Kalitzakis
- Vaios Karagiannis
- Stelios Manolas
- Giotis Tsalouchidis
- Luigi Apolloni
- Dino Baggio
- Pierluigi Casiraghi
- Paolo Maldini
- Daniele Massaro
- Giuseppe Signori
- Rachid Azzouzi
- Abdelmajid Bouyboud
- Rachid Daoudi
- Abdelkirim El Hadrioui
- Tahar El Khalej
- El Arbi Hababi
- Hassan Nader
- Mohammed Samadi
- Jorge Campos
- Ramón Ramírez
- Frank de Boer
- Dennis Bergkamp
- Wim Jonk
- Ronald Koeman
- Frank Rijkaard
- Stan Valckx
- Ulrich van Gobbel
- Aron Winter
- Rob Witschge
- Mutiu Adepoju
- Emmanuel Amuneke
- Augustine Eguavoen
- Stephen Keshi
- Chidi Nwanu
- Stig Inge Bjørnebye
- Erland Johnsen
- Øyvind Leonhardsen
- Gøran Sørloth
- Tommy Coyne
- Ray Houghton
- Roy Keane
- Gary Kelly
- Miodrag Belodedici
- Ilie Dumitrescu
- Ioan Lupescu
- Gheorghe Mihali
- Basarab Panduru
- Dan Petrescu
- Valeri Karpin
- Dmitri Kharine
- Dmitri Kuznetsov
- Mohamed Al-Deayea
- Abdullah Al-Dosari
- Mohamed Al-Jawad
- Hamzah Idris
- Talal Jebreen
- Ahmad Jamil Madani
- Kim Joo-Sung
- Ko Jeong-Woon
- Park Jung-bae
- Shin Hong-Gi
- Francisco José Camarasa
- Luis Enrique
- Ion Andoni Goikoetxea
- Fernando Hierro
- Jorge Otero
- Julio Salinas
- Tomas Brolin
- Klas Ingesson
- Håkan Mild
- Roland Nilsson
- Jonas Thern
- Georges Bregy
- Dominique Herr
- Marc Hottiger
- Adrian Knup
- Marco Pascolo
- Jürg Studer
- Paul Caligiuri
- Thomas Dooley
- Alexi Lalas
- Tab Ramos
