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Footballers With Most Red Cards In A Single Season

Football, despite its beauty and flair, is a fiercely competitive and physically intense sport. Players constantly battle for possession, leading to moments of aggression and heated exchanges. To keep the game as fair as possible, yellow and red cards were introduced. A red card means you are sent off and get suspended for 1-3 games, depending on why the red card was brandished. You can either get a direct red card or accumulate two yellow cards, which are then converted into a red card. However, red cards are not handed out easily, so the balance of the game can be maintained. This article talks about footballers who have picked up the most red cards in a single season.

Players With the Most Red Cards In One Season

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2. Armando Del Debbio – 4 Red Cards

Armando Del Debbio was a Brazilian professional footballer who played left-back throughout his career. He is known for being one of the players who has picked the most reds in a single season. In the 1931/32 season, while playing in his first season for Italian club Lazio, Armando Del Debbio made 31 appearances and picked up four red cards.

2. Giovanni Loseto – 4 Red Cards

Giovanni Loseto was an Italian professional defender who spent his domestic career representing various clubs like Bari, Pescara, Barletta, Audace Cerignola and Civitas Conversano. While he played for all of these clubs in his career, he spent most of his career playing for Bari, a team he represented from 1982 to 1993. In the 1991/92 season, Loseto played very aggressively and, despite having made just 17 appearances, picked up 4 red cards in a single season, becoming one of the only players to do so in history.

2. Juan Francisco Rodriguez – 4 Red Cards

Juan Francisco Rodriguez, commonly known as Juanito, was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a centre-back throughout his career. He played for various famous teams like Las Palmas, Zaragoza, Sevilla, and Extremadura throughout his career, but it was while playing for Atletico Madrid that the defender managed to pull off a shocking feat. Juan Francisco Rodriguez played for Atletico Madrid from 1990 to 1994 and ended up picking up four red cards in the 1992/93 season while making 25 appearances for the club.

2. Xavier Aguado – 4 Red Cards

Xavier Aguado was a Spanish centre-back who played professional football from 1987 to 2003. Aguado played for Badalona and Sabadell, but almost the entirety of his professional football career was spent representing Spanish football club Real Zaragoza. He ended up playing for the Spanish club from 1990 to 2003 and made a total of 383 appearances for them across all competitions. Xavier Aguado made 33 appearances for Zaragoza in the 1994/95 season and ended up picking up four red cards in that season.

2. Jesus Diego Cota – 4 Red Cards

Jesus Diego Cota was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a right-back throughout his career. He spent one season playing for the B team of Rayo Vallecano and one season playing for Pegaso, aside from which he spent his entire football career playing for Rayo Vallecano. Diego Cota was an incredibly loyal player and ended up playing for the Spanish club from 1985 to 2002, making a total of 402 appearances across all competitions. The Spanish defender made 32 appearances for Rayo Vallecano in the 1995/96 season, a season in which he picked up a record four red cards.

2. David Jemmali – 4 Red Cards

David Jemmali was a Tunisian professional footballer who played as a defender throughout his career. He played for three teams throughout his career, i.e., Cannes, Bordeaux, and Grenoble. Out of these three teams, however, most of his time was spent playing for Bordeaux, a team he represented from 1997 to 2008. Jemmali was a very aggressive defender, and his tackles got the best of him in the 2002/03 season. He made 29 appearances for the club that season and ended up picking up a total of four reds.

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2. Eduardo Berizzo – 4 Red Cards

Eduardo Berizzo was an Argentine professional footballer who played as a centre-back throughout his career. He played for various teams during his domestic career, including the likes of Newell’s Old Boys, Atlas, River Plate, Olympique de Marseille, Celta Vigo, and Cadiz. However, it was while playing for Celta Vigo that Berizzo put in one of his most aggressive seasons. In the 2003/04 season, Berizzo made 26 appearances for the Spanish club and ended up picking up four red cards in the process.

2. Lopo – 4 Red Cards

Alberto Lopo was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a centre-back throughout his career. He played professional football from 1998 to 2018 and represented various teams like Espanyol, Deportivo La Coruna, Getafe, Gimnastic, and Inter d’Escaldes. During the early days of his career, while representing Espanyol, Lopo was known for his aggressive defending style and used to pick up red cards regularly. In the 2003/04 season, he ended up making 31 appearances for Espanyol and picked up a total of four reds in just one season.

2. Fabio Simplicio – 4 Red Cards

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Fabio Simplicio was a Brazilian midfielder who played professional football from 2000 to 2017. He is one of the only players on this list who is not a defender. Simpicio played for a plethora of teams during his football career, including the likes of Sao Paulo, Parma, Palermo, Roma, Cerezo Osaka, Vissel Kobe, and Batatais. However, Fabio Simplicio managed to get onto this list thanks to the season he had in 2006/07 with Palermo. He ended up making 33 appearances that season and picked up a total of four red cards while doing so.

2. Yannick Cahuzac – 4 Red Cards

Yannick Cahuzac was a Corsican professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder throughout his career. Cahuzac played for three clubs in the entirety of his professional career, namely Bastia, Toulouse, and RC Lens. However, nearly the entirety of his career was spent playing for the club he started his professional career at, Bastia. He played for a French football club from 2005 to 2017 and made a total of 304 appearances for them across all competitions. In the 2016/17 season, Yannick Cahuzac picked up four red cards and made a total of 29 appearances for them.

1. Luigi Apolloni – 5 Red Cards

Luigi Apolloni was an Italian professional footballer who played as a defender throughout his career. He played for Pistoiese, Reggiana, Parma, and Verona during his playing career. While he represented all these clubs, it was Parma where Apollini spent the major chunk of his career. Luigi Apollini played for Parma from 1987 to 2000 and made 304 appearances for them across all competitions. However, it was while playing for Verona that Apolloni managed to get onto this list. In the 2000/01 season, he made 23 appearances for Verona and ended up picking up a record five red cards in one season, becoming the only player to do so at that time.

1. Gabriel Paletta – 5 Red Cards

Gabriel Paletta was an Italian professional footballer who played as a centre-back throughout his career. He is the only other player on this list apart from Luigi Apolloni, who has managed to pick up five reds in one season. Paletta played for a plethora of clubs during his career, namely Banfield, Liverpool, Boca Juniors, Parma, AC Milan, Atalanta, Jiangsu Suning, and Monza. However, it was while playing for AC Milan in the 2016/17 season that Paletta managed to pick up five red cards in a single season, doing so while making 30 appearances for the club during the season.

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