Fabio Melo
Over the last 10 Primeira Liga games Fabio Melo has officiated, the average is 4.70 cards a match — 9% below the league average of 5.17. That splits 4.5 yellow and 0.2 red a game — a red in 2 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.8 to 1.9 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.2 gap. 5+ cards landed in 30% of those games (3 of 10), from a 17.9% 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 Fabio Melo turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Primeira Liga season on record.
| Measure | Melo | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.91 | 5.17 |
| vs league | 0.95× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 19.0% | 19.0% |
| Fouls / match | 25.8 | 27.2 |
| Red cards shown | 3 | — |
| Matches on record | 11 (1 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Primeira Liga games Fabio Melo took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moreirense v Marítimo14 Sep | 3–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 30 |
| Benfica v FC Arouca12 May | 5–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 24 |
| Vizela v Casa Pia31 Mar | 0–4 | 8 1 red | 7 | 1 | 25 |
| Famalicão v Boavista4 Mar | 1–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 32 |
| Vizela v Estoril Praia25 Feb | 3–3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 20 |
| Gil Vicente v Vitória SC28 Jan | 1–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 27 |
| Chaves v Rio Ave21 Jan | 0–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 24 |
| Casa Pia v Famalicão13 Jan | 0–2 | 3 1 red | 2 | 1 | 28 |
● a red card in that match
Fabio Melo has officiated only 11 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 Fabio Melo give per game?
Fabio Melo averages 4.91 cards a game across 11 Primeira Liga matches — 5% below the league average of 5.17. That's a raw rate from only 11 matches, so the model shrinks it toward the league average rather than trusting it outright.
Is Fabio Melo a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Fabio Melo runs at 19.0% against a league average of 19.0%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Fabio Melo'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 Fabio Melo's card rate?
It rests on 11 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.