Oliver Langford
Over the last 10 Championship games Oliver Langford has officiated, the average is 2.80 cards a match — 30% below the league average of 4.01. That's 2.8 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.9 to 0.9 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 20% of those games (2 of 10), from a 14.5% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 16 awarded in 102 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 | 3.75 | 4.01 |
| vs league | 0.94× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 17.9% | 18.3% |
| Fouls / match | 20.9 | 21.9 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.16 | 0.17 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 16 in 102 | — |
| Red cards shown | 17 | — |
| Matches on record | 103 (4 in 26/27) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol City v Watford18 Sep | 1–0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | — | 26 |
| West Ham v Derby County5 Sep | 3–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Millwall v Wrexham2 Sep | 0–3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Stoke City v Swansea City15 Aug | 1–2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| 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 pen | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| Blackburn Rovers v Middlesbrough21 Mar | 0–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Oliver Langford give per game?
Oliver Langford averages 3.75 cards a game across 103 Championship matches — 6% below the league average of 4.01. On an Oliver Langford appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.94.
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 17.9% against a league average of 18.3%. 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 103 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.