Oliver Langford
Over the last 10 Championship games Oliver Langford has officiated, the average is 3.20 cards a match — 20% below the league average of 4.01. That splits 2.9 yellow and 0.3 red a game — a red in 2 of the 10. Home and away sides fare about the same here (1.6 v 1.6 a game), where the league tilts +0.4 toward the away side. 5+ cards landed in 30% of those games (3 of 10), from a 17.7% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 16 awarded in 99 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 Oliver Langford 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 | Langford | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.74 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 0.93× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 18.0% | 18.4% |
| Fouls / match | 20.8 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.16 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 16 in 99 | — |
| Red cards shown | 17 | — |
| Matches on record | 99 (21 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Championship games Oliver Langford took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrexham v Middlesbrough2 May | 2–2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Swansea City v Southampton18 Apr | 1–2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford United v Hull City3 Apr | 1–1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| Blackburn Rovers v Middlesbrough21 Mar | 0–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Derby County v Sheffield Wednesday7 Mar | 2–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Southampton v Queens Park Rangers24 Feb | 5–0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Middlesbrough v Oxford United21 Feb | 0–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Hull City v Bristol City7 Feb | 2–3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
Frequently asked
How many cards does Oliver Langford give per game?
Oliver Langford averages 3.74 cards a game across 99 Championship matches — 7% below the league average of 4.01. On a Oliver Langford appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.93.
Is Oliver Langford a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Oliver Langford runs at 18.0% 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 Oliver Langford'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 Oliver Langford's card rate?
It rests on 99 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.