Most-Feared World Cup Referees

Daniele Orsato is the most-feared referee for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He has dealt out 33 cards and two penalties in five European qualifiers in the build-up to Qatar 2022. He came out on top of a data poll conducted by Gambling.com.

Daniele Orsato is one of the most feared referees at the World Cup. He averaged 6.6 cards per match and one every 13.5 minutes.

Orsato is the most feared official at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Stephanie Frappart is second on the list. Frappeart has refereed in the Champions League and Ligue 1. She has an Index Score of 72.5 and has received 10 yellow cards.

Stephanie Frappart refereed World Cup 2022 qualifiers for Qatar. Wilton Sampaio was the most prolific penalty-taker in South American qualifiers. Michael Oliver was second with four penalties in five qualifiers in Europe.

Sampaio is the most feared World Cup referee. He has officiated in the joint-most qualifiers. Sampaios also handed out the highest number of red cards.

Referees from USA, Guatemala and Zambia make up the top 10 in the minutes-per-card stakes. New Zealand referee Matthew Conger is joint-second in this metric with an average of one card every 15 minutes.

Ceasar Ramos of Mexico is one of the least efficient referees. He refereed the lowest Index Score of all the referees who took part in World Cup qualifiers.

Ramos is the most lenient referee at the World Cup. Abdulrahman Al Jassim refereed in six qualifiers in the build-up to the finals. He only handed out 14 cards, but none were red and no penalties were awarded.

The Index analysed seven statistics on each of the 36 referees appointed by FIFA for the World Cup in Qatar. The three strongest metrics - yellow cards, red cards and penalties awarded - were totalled up using a points system similar to that used by UK bookmakers on card betting markets.

SportRadar compiled the data using statistics curated by SportRadars.

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