1998 FIFA World Cup disciplinary record

In the 1998 FIFA World Cup the main disciplinary action taken against players came in the form of red and yellow cards. Any player picking up a red card is automatically banned for his country's next game (if it is a serious offense FIFA may extend this ban to a number of games). Players also receive a one-game ban if they pick up two yellow cards within the group stage or within the knockout stage.

Disciplinary statistics

• Total number of yellow cards: 258
• Average yellow cards per match: 4.03
• Total number of red cards: 22
• Average red cards per match: 0.34
• First yellow card of the tournament: Darren Jackson – Scotland against Brazil
• First red card of the tournament: Anatoli Nankov – Bulgaria against Paraguay
• Fastest yellow card from kick off: 3 minutes – Wolfgang Feiersinger – Austria against Italy
• Fastest yellow card after coming on as substitute: 3 minutes – Stig Tøfting – Denmark against France (introduced in the 75th minute)
• Latest yellow card in a match without extra time: 90+2 minutes – Ko Jong-Soo – South Korea against Netherlands, Takashi Hirano – Japan against Argentina
• Latest yellow card in a match with extra time: 119 minutes – Clarence Seedorf – Netherlands against Brazil
• Fastest dismissal from kick off: 19 minutes – Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi – Saudi Arabia against France
• Fastest dismissal of a substitute: 3 minutes – Morten Wieghorst – Denmark against South Africa (introduced in the 82nd minute)
• Latest dismissal in a match without extra time: 87 minutes – Ariel Ortega – Argentina against Netherlands
• Least time difference between two yellow cards given to the same player: 20 minutes – Marcel Desailly – France against Brazil (booked in the 48th minute and again in the 68th minute)
• Most yellow cards (team): 19 – Croatia
• Most red cards (team): 3 – Cameroon, France
• Fewest yellow cards (team): 3 – Iran
• Most yellow cards (player): 3 – Didier Deschamps, Arthur Numan, César Sampaio, Dario Šimić, Mario Stanić
• Most red cards (player): 1 – Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi, David Beckham, Laurent Blanc, Craig Burley, Marcel Desailly, Ha Seok-Ju, Raymond Kalla, Patrick Kluivert, Lauren, Miklos Molnar, Anatoli Nankov, Arthur Numan, Ariel Ortega, Pável Pardo, Alfred Phiri, Darryl Powell, Ramón Ramírez, Rigobert Song, Gert Verheyen, Morten Wieghorst, Christian Wörns, Zinedine Zidane
• Most yellow cards (match): 7 – South Africa vs Denmark, Argentina vs Croatia
• Most red cards (match): 3 – South Africa vs Denmark
• Fewest yellow cards (match): 1 – Morocco vs Norway, Germany vs Yugoslavia
• Most cards in one match: 7 yellow cards and 3 red cards – South Africa vs Denmark

Sanctions

By referee

Referee	Matches	Red	Yellow	Red Cards
Arturo Brizio Carter	3	4	15	3 straight reds 1 second yellow
Said Belqola	3	1	17	1 second yellow
Ali Bujsaim	3	1	12	1 straight red
José Garcia Aranda	3	1	9	1 straight red
Gamal Al-Ghandour	3	0	14
Epifanio González	3	0	11
Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid	2	2	11	1 straight red 1 second yellow
László Vagner	2	2	9	2 straight reds
Hugh Dallas	2	2	8	2 straight reds
Rune Pedersen	2	2	8	1 straight red 1 second yellow
Edward Lennie	2	1	8	1 straight red
Kim Milton Nielsen	2	1	7	1 straight red
Günter Benkö	2	1	6	1 straight red
Pierluigi Collina	2	1	6	1 straight red
Javier Castrilli	2	0	9
Bernd Heynemann	2	0	9
Vítor Melo Pereira	2	0	9
Márcio Rezende de Freitas	2	0	9
Mario Sanchez Yanten	2	0	9
Marc Batta	2	0	8
Mario van der Ende	2	0	7
Esfandiar Baharmast	2	0	6
Urs Meier	2	0	5
Pirom Un-Prasert	2	0	3
John Toro Rendón	1	3	7	3 straight reds
Lucien Bouchardeau	1	0	5
Paul Durkin	1	0	5
Ian McLeod	1	0	5
Ramesh Ramdhan	1	0	5
Lim Kee Chong	1	0	4
Nikolai Levnikov	1	0	4
Masayoshi Okada	1	0	4
Alberto Tejada	1	0	2
Ryszard Wójcik	1	0	2
Total	64	22	258	18 straight reds 4 second yellows

By team

Team	Yellow	Red	Red Cards	Suspensions
Argentina	11	1	A. Ortega vs Netherlands straight red card	Ortega
Austria	6	0
Belgium	4	1	G. Verheyen vs Mexico straight red card	Verheyen vs South Korea
Brazil	12	0
Bulgaria	8	1	A. Nankov vs Paraguay second yellow card	A. Nankov vs Nigeria
Cameroon	6	3	R. Kalla vs Italy straight red card R. Song vs Chile straight red card Lauren vs Chile straight red card	Kalla vs Chile Song Lauren
Chile	13	0
Colombia	5	0
Croatia	19	0		Z. Soldo
Denmark	12	2	M. Molnar vs South Africa straight red card M. Wieghorst vs South Africa straight red card	Molnar and Wieghorst vs France
England	5	1	D. Beckham vs Argentina straight red card	Beckham
France	13	3	Z. Zidane vs Saudi Arabia straight red card L. Blanc vs Croatia straight red card M. Desailly vs Brazil second yellow card	Zidane vs Denmark Blanc vs Brazil (Final) Desailly
Germany	12	1	C. Wörns vs Croatia straight red card	Matthäus vs Croatia Wörns
Iran	3	0
Italy	11	0
Jamaica	6	1	D. Powell vs Argentina second yellow card	D. Powell vs Japan
Japan	7	0
Mexico	10	2	P. Pardo vs Belgium straight red card R. Ramírez vs Netherlands straight red card	Pardo vs Netherlands Ramírez vs Germany
Morocco	4	0
Netherlands	11	2	P. Kluivert vs Belgium straight red card A. Numan vs Argentina second yellow card	Kluivert vs Mexico Numan vs Brazil
Nigeria	8	0
Norway	7	0
Paraguay	8	0
Romania	10	0		I. Filipescu vs Tunisia
Saudi Arabia	4	1	M. Al-Khilaiwi vs France straight red card	Al-Khilaiwi vs South Africa
Scotland	4	1	C. Burley vs Morocco straight red card	Burley
South Africa	7	1	A. Phiri vs Denmark straight red card	Phiri vs Saudi Arabia
South Korea	7	1	Ha S.-J. vs Mexico straight red card	Ha vs Netherlands
Spain	7	0
Tunisia	7	0
United States	4	0
Yugoslavia	7	0
Total	258	22

By individual

1 red card

3 yellow cards

2 yellow cards

1 yellow card