Matt Donohue
Over the last 10 Championship games Matt Donohue has officiated, the average is 4.50 cards a match — 12% above the league average of 4.01. That splits 4.3 yellow and 0.2 red a game — a red in 1 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.8 to 1.7 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 50% of those games (5 of 10), from a 19.7% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 17 awarded in 107 matches, 0.16 a game against a league average of 0.17. 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 Matt Donohue turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Championship season on record.
| Measure | Donohue | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.37 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 1.09× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 18.9% | 18.4% |
| Fouls / match | 23.2 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.16 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 17 in 107 | — |
| Red cards shown | 16 | — |
| Matches on record | 107 (25 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games Matt Donohue took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Brom v Ipswich25 Apr | 0–0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Oxford United v Wrexham21 Apr | 0–1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Coventry City v Sheffield Wednesday11 Apr | 0–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Swansea City v Middlesbrough6 Apr | 2–2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 25 |
| Oxford United v Charlton Athletic14 Mar | 1–1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 31 |
| Millwall v Derby County10 Mar | 1–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Bristol City v Coventry City7 Mar | 0–2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 |
| Blackburn Rovers v Bristol City24 Feb | 1–2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
Frequently asked
How many cards does Matt Donohue give per game?
Matt Donohue averages 4.37 cards a game across 107 Championship matches — 9% above the league average of 4.01. On a Matt Donohue appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.09.
Is Matt Donohue a strict referee?
Slightly, yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Matt Donohue runs at 18.9% against a league average of 18.4%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Matt Donohue'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 Matt Donohue's card rate?
It rests on 107 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, an opponent factor and de-vigging, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.