François Letexier
Over the last 10 UEFA Champions League games François Letexier has officiated, the average is 2.50 cards a match — 37% below the league average of 3.96. That's 2.5 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.4 to 1.1 a game, in line with the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 10% of those games (1 of 10), from a 12.5% foul-to-booking rate. These are raw match figures from those games, not odds.
Match cards last 10 games
Career profile
The two numbers that matter are vs league — the multiplier the model applies to a player's booking chance — and conversion, the share of fouls François Letexier turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every UEFA Champions League season on record.
| Measure | Letexier | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.63 | 3.96 |
| vs league | 0.92× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 18.2% | 18.1% |
| Fouls / match | 20.0 | 21.9 |
| Red cards shown | 6 | — |
| Matches on record | 24 (8 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 UEFA Champions League games François Letexier took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenal v Sporting CP15 Apr | 0–0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 18 |
| FC Barcelona v Newcastle18 Mar | 7–2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 22 |
| Benfica v Real Madrid17 Feb | 0–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
| AFC Ajax v Olympiacos FC28 Jan | 1–2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 19 |
| Atlético Madrid v Inter26 Nov | 2–1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20 |
| Eintracht Frankfurt v Liverpool22 Oct | 1–5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Arsenal v Olympiacos FC1 Oct | 2–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 31 |
| Juventus v Borussia Dortmund16 Sep | 4–4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 21 |
● a red card in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does François Letexier give per game?
François Letexier averages 3.63 cards a game across 24 UEFA Champions League matches — 8% below the league average of 3.96. On a François Letexier appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.92.
Is François Letexier a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and François Letexier runs at 18.2% against a league average of 18.1%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does François Letexier's record change bet builder card prices?
It should. The referee is the single biggest factor in the to-be-carded market, and the appointment is public before kick-off — so a strict official on a combative player is the archetypal card edge. The player cards guide walks through exactly how the model turns a tendency like this into a price.
How reliable is François Letexier's card rate?
It rests on 24 career matches, a solid record. The model shrinks a referee's tendency toward the league average when the sample is thin and discounts its own confidence for officials with young records, so a number like this never gets trusted beyond what the evidence earns.
Rates shown are figures from public match data for context; the model adds shrinkage and an opponent factor, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. It compares against the bookmaker's price as offered — card markets are priced one side only, so that price still carries the bookmaker's margin. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.