Marco Di Bello
Over the last 10 Serie A games Marco Di Bello has officiated, the average is 1.80 cards a match — 57% below the league average of 4.19. That's 1.8 yellow a game, with no red card in the 10. Home and away sides fare about the same here (0.9 v 0.9 a game), where the league tilts +0.3 toward the away side. 5+ cards landed in 0% of those games (0 of 10), from a 7.2% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 18 awarded in 51 matches, 0.35 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 Marco Di Bello 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 | Di Bello | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.63 | 4.19 |
| vs league | 0.87× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 14.0% | 16.9% |
| Fouls / match | 25.9 | 24.7 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.35 | 0.29 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 18 in 51 | — |
| Red cards shown | 10 | — |
| Matches on record | 52 (2 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Serie A games Marco Di Bello took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bologna v Sassuolo6 Sep | 2–2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Genoa v SSC Napoli22 Aug | 0–2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | 18 |
| Hellas Verona v Como10 May | 0–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| Bologna v AS Roma25 Apr | 0–2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Parma v SSC Napoli12 Apr | 1–1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Cremonese v Fiorentina16 Mar | 1–4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 |
| AS Roma v Cremonese22 Feb | 3–0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Udinese v Inter17 Jan | 0–1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Marco Di Bello give per game?
Marco Di Bello averages 3.63 cards a game across 52 Serie A matches — 13% below the league average of 4.19. On a Marco Di Bello appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.87.
Is Marco Di Bello a strict referee?
No — more lenient than most. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Marco Di Bello runs at 14.0% 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 Marco Di Bello'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 Marco Di Bello'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.