Luca Zufferli
Over the last 10 Serie A games Luca Zufferli has officiated, the average is 3.10 cards a match — 26% below the league average of 4.19. That's 3.1 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.6 to 1.5 a game, flatter than the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 20% of those games (2 of 10), from a 13.8% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 13 awarded in 42 matches, 0.31 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 Luca Zufferli 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 | Zufferli | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 2.89 | 4.19 |
| vs league | 0.69× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 12.3% | 16.9% |
| Fouls / match | 23.5 | 24.7 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.31 | 0.29 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 13 in 42 | — |
| Red cards shown | 4 | — |
| Matches on record | 44 (2 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Serie A games Luca Zufferli took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juventus v Atalanta20 Sep | 2–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | 20 |
| Torino v AC Milan23 Aug | 1–2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | 19 |
| Torino v Juventus24 May | 2–2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Como v Parma17 May | 1–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| AC Milan v Atalanta10 May | 2–3 | 6 1 pen | 6 | 0 | 1 | 25 |
| AS Roma v Fiorentina4 May | 4–0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| SSC Napoli v Lazio18 Apr | 0–2 | 4 1 pen | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
| Pisa v Torino5 Apr | 0–1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Luca Zufferli give per game?
Luca Zufferli averages 2.89 cards a game across 44 Serie A matches — 31% below the league average of 4.19. On a Luca Zufferli appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.69.
Is Luca Zufferli a strict referee?
No — more lenient than most. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Luca Zufferli runs at 12.3% 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 Luca Zufferli'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 Luca Zufferli's card rate?
It rests on 44 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.