Fabio Maresca
Over the last 10 Serie A games Fabio Maresca has officiated, the average is 5.70 cards a match — 36% above the league average of 4.19. That splits 5.0 yellow and 0.7 red a game — a red in 4 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 3.1 to 2.6 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 70% of those games (7 of 10), from a 20.7% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 13 awarded in 50 matches, 0.26 a game against a league average of 0.29. 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 Maresca turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Serie A season on record.
| Measure | Maresca | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 5.35 | 4.19 |
| vs league | 1.28× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 20.7% | 16.9% |
| Fouls / match | 25.9 | 24.7 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.26 | 0.29 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 13 in 50 | — |
| Red cards shown | 12 | — |
| Matches on record | 52 (2 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Serie A games Fabio Maresca took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torino v AS Roma14 Sep | 0–2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 27 |
| Bologna v Lazio22 Aug | 0–1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | — | 37 |
| Cremonese v Como24 May | 1–4 | 9 3 red 2 pen | 6 | 3 | 2 | 26 |
| AS Roma v Lazio17 May | 2–0 | 7 2 red | 5 | 2 | 0 | 32 |
| Sassuolo v AC Milan3 May | 2–0 | 8 1 red | 7 | 1 | 0 | 32 |
| Lecce v Fiorentina20 Apr | 1–1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Atalanta v Juventus11 Apr | 0–1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Udinese v Como6 Apr | 0–0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Fabio Maresca give per game?
Fabio Maresca averages 5.35 cards a game across 52 Serie A matches — 28% above the league average of 4.19. On a Fabio Maresca appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.28.
Is Fabio Maresca a strict referee?
Yes. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Fabio Maresca runs at 20.7% against a league average of 16.9%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Fabio Maresca'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 Maresca's card rate?
It rests on 52 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.