Luís Godinho
Over the last 10 Primeira Liga games Luís Godinho has officiated, the average is 4.40 cards a match — 15% below the league average of 5.17. That splits 4.3 yellow and 0.1 red a game — a red in 1 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.8 to 1.6 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.2 gap. 5+ cards landed in 40% of those games (4 of 10), from a 15.9% 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 Luís Godinho 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 | Godinho | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 5.39 | 5.17 |
| vs league | 1.04× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 19.1% | 19.0% |
| Fouls / match | 28.2 | 27.2 |
| Red cards shown | 20 | — |
| Matches on record | 77 (5 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Primeira Liga games Luís Godinho took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benfica v Vitória SC11 Oct | 2–0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 32 |
| Famalicão v Sporting CP13 Sep | 1–1 | 7 1 red | 6 | 1 | 25 |
| FC Alverca v Sporting Braga5 Sep | 1–2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 26 |
| Casa Pia v Moreirense30 Aug | 0–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 32 |
| FC Porto v FC Alverca9 Aug | 2–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 23 |
| Sporting CP v Gil Vicente16 May | 3–0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 27 |
| Vitória SC v Casa Pia11 May | 0–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 27 |
| Santa Clara v Sporting Braga26 Apr | 2–1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 26 |
● a red card in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Luís Godinho give per game?
Luís Godinho averages 5.39 cards a game across 77 Primeira Liga matches — 4% above the league average of 5.17. On a Luís Godinho appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.04.
Is Luís Godinho a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Luís Godinho runs at 19.1% 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 Luís Godinho'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 Luís Godinho's card rate?
It rests on 77 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.