Anthony Taylor
Anthony Taylor has retired from refereeing. The figures below are a complete UEFA Europa League career record — fixed from here, with nothing more to add. Over the last 10 UEFA Europa League games Anthony Taylor has officiated, the average is 5.60 cards a match — 23% above the league average of 4.55. That splits 5.2 yellow and 0.4 red a game — a red in 4 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.9 to 2.7 a game, flatter than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 60% of those games (6 of 10), from a 21.0% 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 Anthony Taylor turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every UEFA Europa League season on record.
| Measure | Taylor | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 5.60 | 4.55 |
| vs league | 1.23× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 21.0% | 18.8% |
| Fouls / match | 26.7 | 24.2 |
| Red cards shown | 4 | — |
| Matches on record | 10 (4 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 UEFA Europa League games Anthony Taylor took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting Braga v SC Freiburg30 Apr | 2–1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 26 |
| Celta Vigo v SC Freiburg16 Apr | 1–3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 33 |
| FC Porto v VfB Stuttgart19 Mar | 2–0 | 8 1 red | 7 | 1 | 22 |
| FK Crvena Zvezda v Lille26 Feb | 0–2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 30 |
| Olympique Lyonnais v FCSB13 Mar | 4–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Galatasaray v AZ Alkmaar20 Feb | 2–2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 33 |
| Bayer 04 Leverkusen v Qarabağ FK14 Mar | 3–2 | 4 1 red | 3 | 1 | 13 |
| AC Sparta Praha v Galatasaray22 Feb | 4–1 | 7 1 red | 6 | 1 | 23 |
● a red card in that match
Anthony Taylor has officiated only 10 matches on our record — a thin sample. The model shrinks a thin referee tendency toward the league average and discounts its confidence until the evidence builds, so read the numbers above gently.
Frequently asked
How many cards does Anthony Taylor give per game?
Anthony Taylor averages 5.60 cards a game across 10 UEFA Europa League matches — 23% above the league average of 4.55. That's a raw rate from only 10 matches, so the model shrinks it toward the league average rather than trusting it outright.
Is Anthony Taylor a strict referee?
Yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Anthony Taylor runs at 21.0% against a league average of 18.8%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Anthony Taylor'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 Anthony Taylor's card rate?
It rests on 10 career matches, still a thin sample — read it gently. 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.