Rui Manuel Gomes Costa
Rui Manuel Gomes Costa has not taken charge of a Primeira Liga match in 26/27. The figures below are a career record. Over the last 10 Primeira Liga games Rui Manuel Gomes Costa has officiated, the average is 5.20 cards a match — in line with the league average of 5.17. That splits 4.7 yellow and 0.5 red a game — a red in 4 of the 10. The home side sees more cards — 2.3 to 2.9 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.2 gap. 5+ cards landed in 50% of those games (5 of 10), from a 17.8% 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 Rui Manuel Gomes Costa 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 | Costa | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 5.94 | 5.17 |
| vs league | 1.15× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 20.9% | 19.0% |
| Fouls / match | 28.5 | 27.2 |
| Red cards shown | 8 | — |
| Matches on record | 18 (0 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Primeira Liga games Rui Manuel Gomes Costa took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benfica v Santa Clara27 May | 3–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 29 |
| FC Porto v Boavista30 Apr | 1–0 | 8 1 red | 7 | 1 | 38 |
| Benfica v Estoril Praia23 Apr | 1–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 34 |
| Sporting Braga v Gil Vicente16 Apr | 1–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| Paços de Ferreira v Famalicão8 Apr | 1–3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 32 |
| Rio Ave v Benfica2 Apr | 0–1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 29 |
| Estoril Praia v Chaves18 Mar | 0–2 | 6 1 red | 5 | 1 | 36 |
| FC Porto v Gil Vicente26 Feb | 1–2 | 11 2 red | 9 | 2 | 28 |
● a red card in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Rui Manuel Gomes Costa give per game?
Rui Manuel Gomes Costa averages 5.94 cards a game across 18 Primeira Liga matches — 15% above the league average of 5.17. On a Rui Manuel Gomes Costa appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.15.
Is Rui Manuel Gomes Costa a strict referee?
Slightly, yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Rui Manuel Gomes Costa runs at 20.9% 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 Rui Manuel Gomes Costa'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 Rui Manuel Gomes Costa's card rate?
It rests on 18 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.