Francesco Fourneau
Over the last 10 Serie A games Francesco Fourneau has officiated, the average is 3.70 cards a match — 12% below the league average of 4.19. That's 3.7 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.0 to 1.7 a game, in line with the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 30% of those games (3 of 10), from a 15.2% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 11 awarded in 40 matches, 0.28 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 Francesco Fourneau 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 | Fourneau | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.28 | 4.19 |
| vs league | 1.02× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 16.8% | 16.9% |
| Fouls / match | 25.4 | 24.7 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.28 | 0.29 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 11 in 40 | — |
| Red cards shown | 2 | — |
| Matches on record | 40 (2 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Serie A games Francesco Fourneau took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venezia v Fiorentina11 Sep | 2–4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Juventus v Parma29 Aug | 2–0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 35 |
| Pisa v SSC Napoli17 May | 0–3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Sassuolo v Como17 Apr | 2–1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| AC Milan v Torino21 Mar | 3–2 | 5 1 pen | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
| Como v Lecce28 Feb | 3–1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Torino v Bologna15 Feb | 1–2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Parma v Juventus1 Feb | 1–4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Francesco Fourneau give per game?
Francesco Fourneau averages 4.28 cards a game across 40 Serie A matches — roughly above the league average of 4.19. On a Francesco Fourneau appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.02.
Is Francesco Fourneau a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Francesco Fourneau runs at 16.8% 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 Francesco Fourneau'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 Francesco Fourneau's card rate?
It rests on 40 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.