Simone Sozza
Over the last 10 Serie A games Simone Sozza has officiated, the average is 3.70 cards a match — 12% below the league average of 4.19. That splits 3.5 yellow and 0.2 red a game — a red in 2 of the 10. The home side sees more cards — 1.7 to 2.0 a game, in line with the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 40% of those games (4 of 10), from a 15.5% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come more often than most: 30 awarded in 57 matches, 0.53 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 Simone Sozza 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 | Sozza | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.22 | 4.19 |
| vs league | 1.01× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 16.9% | 16.9% |
| Fouls / match | 25.1 | 24.7 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.53 | 0.29 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 30 in 57 | — |
| Red cards shown | 10 | — |
| Matches on record | 58 (2 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Serie A games Simone Sozza took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venezia v Lazio19 Sep | 0–2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | — | 22 |
| Inter v SSC Napoli5 Sep | 3–2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Hellas Verona v AS Roma24 May | 0–2 | 4 1 red 1 pen | 3 | 1 | 1 | 22 |
| Genoa v AC Milan17 May | 1–2 | 5 1 pen | 5 | 0 | 1 | 27 |
| AC Milan v Juventus26 Apr | 0–0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Inter v AS Roma5 Apr | 5–2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Lecce v Cremonese8 Mar | 2–1 | 6 1 red 1 pen | 5 | 1 | 1 | 46 |
| AS Roma v Juventus1 Mar | 3–3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Simone Sozza give per game?
Simone Sozza averages 4.22 cards a game across 58 Serie A matches — roughly above the league average of 4.19. On a Simone Sozza appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 1.01.
Is Simone Sozza a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Simone Sozza runs at 16.9% 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 Simone Sozza'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 Simone Sozza's card rate?
It rests on 58 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.