How often do Pro Clubs players get sent off?
EA sends no yellow cards at all, so the only discipline anybody can measure is the walk. This is where the field sits, and why the rate is unkind to substitutes.
Measured hereUpdated 17 August 2026 · from 415 archived players
Sendings-off over time played, for the archived players with enough football behind them to rank. Half sit under this and half over it.
EA counts the walk and nothing before it
There are no yellow cards in the match data. EA’s payload carries a red card count per player and no booking of any kind, which means every discipline figure on this site, and on every other site reading the same endpoints, is a count of times somebody left the pitch early. The player who spends ninety minutes one tackle away from a second yellow is invisible.
A straight red and a second yellow also arrive identically. Both add one to the same counter, so nothing stored anywhere can tell you whether a player was reckless once or careless twice.
Where the field sits
Read this the other way up from the rest of the site. The left column is the share of players at or under the rate beside it, so the row you want to be in is near the top.
| Share of players under it | Red cards per 90 |
|---|---|
| 50% of players | 0.00 |
| 60% of players | 0.00 |
| 70% of players | 0.00 |
| 80% of players | 0.00 |
| 90% of players | 0.00 |
| 95% of players | 0.08 |
| 99% of players | 0.20 |
Built from 415 archived players with at least three full matches. Rebuilt daily.
A high percentile is the bad end
Every other bar on a player page rewards a big number. This one is the exception, and it is worth saying plainly because the bars all look the same: sitting in the top ten per cent for red cards means nine in ten measured players walk less often than you do. Aim low.
The storage does not know that. Cut points are sorted values and nothing about them carries a direction, so the meaning lives in the label rather than in the number — which is the reason a raw percentile copied off one page onto another goes wrong here first.
Split by position
A centre-back defends in the places where a mistake is a foul and the foul is the last one. A forward mostly does not, and the gap between them is a fact about where each player stands rather than about temperament.
| Position | Median | Worst 10% | Players |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build defender | 0.00 | 0.00 | 180 |
| Build midfielder | 0.00 | 0.00 | 111 |
| Build forward | 0.00 | 0.00 | 110 |
The rate is hardest on substitutes
Divide by minutes and a short appearance costs a lot. Come on for the last half hour, get sent off, and the arithmetic prints three per 90 against your name — the same figure a starter would need three sendings-off in three full matches to reach. Neither player is being described well by that.
So the sample under the figure matters more here than on any other axis. One walk in a handful of appearances is an accident with a decimal point on it. The same rate over a few hundred matches is a habit, and only the second one is worth an argument in a squad chat.
What to read it against
Put it beside tackles per 90. A defender going in often and walking occasionally is paying a price for doing the job, and the tackle count shows the job being done. A player with the same red card rate and barely any tackles is a different case entirely: the challenges are not there, so the cards came from somewhere else.
Nothing in the archive says which challenge did it. EA sends a total, not an incident, so the only honest use of this number is as a flag to go and watch the clips.
Questions people ask
- How many red cards does the average Pro Clubs player get?
- The median archived player is sent off 0.00 times per 90 minutes, and 0.20 per 90 is where the worst one per cent start. Both are rates over time rather than counts, so a player who has been on the pitch twice as long has to walk twice as often to match them.
- Does Pro Clubs track yellow cards?
- No. EA sends no bookings in the match payload at all, so discipline here can only mean a sending-off. A straight red and a second yellow arrive as the same thing, and nothing stored anywhere can separate them.
- Why is my red card rate worse than a team-mate who has been sent off more?
- Because it is divided by your minutes. One red in a half is the same arithmetic as two in a full match, so a substitute pays a much higher rate for the same walk. Read the rate beside how much football you have played, which the sample under any of these figures is there to tell you.
- Is a high percentile good on red cards?
- No, and this is the one axis on the site where that is true. Everywhere else a big percentile means you are ahead of most players. Here it means most players are cleaner than you, so the end of the table to aim for is the low one.
Measured from 111,220 players and 46,985 matches, kept since 17 September 2026. EA returns the last ten. Look up your own club and see where you land.
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