1990 FIFA World Cup discipline

Aspect of the 1990 FIFA World Cup August 2026 In the 1990 FIFA World Cup the main disciplinary action taken against players came in the form of red and yellow cards.Jones Grahame L WORLD CUP ’90 : Men Wearing Black Are Being Called the Bad Guys https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-29-sp-794-story.html 6 August 2026 Los Angeles Times 1990-06-29 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: 193 Average number of yellow cards: 3.71 Total number of red cards: 16 Average number of red cards: 0.31 First yellow card: Benjamin Massing – Cameroon against Argentina First red card: André Kana-Biyik – Cameroon vs Argentina Fastest yellow card from kick off: 4 minutes – Marius Lăcătuş – Romania vs Argentina Fastest yellow card after coming on as a substitute: 1 minute – Peter Beardsley – England vs. Egypt Latest yellow card in a match without extra time: 90 minutes + – Ernst Aigner – Austria vs. Czechoslovakia Fastest dismissal from kick off: 34 minutes – Peter Artner – Austria vs United States Fastest dismissal of a substitute: 6 minutes – Andreas Reisinger – Austria vs United States Latest dismissal in a match without extra time: 89 minutes – Benjamin Massing – Cameroon against Argentina Least time difference between two yellow cards given to the same player: 0 minutes – Yoon Deuk-Yeo – Korea Republic against Uruguay (Yoon was given two yellow cards in the 70th minute) Most yellow cards (team): 21 – Argentina Most red cards (team): 3 – Argentina Fewest yellow cards (team): 2 – Belgium Most yellow cards (player): 3 – (three players) Benjamin Massing, Yoon Deuk-Yeo, Frank Rijkaard Most red cards (player): 1 – (16 players) Ricardo Giusti, Eric Wynalda, Peter Artner, Frank Rijkaard, Rudi Völler, Yoon Deuk-Yeo, Ľubomír Moravčík, Ricardo Gomes, Benjamin Massing, André Kana-Biyik, Volodymyr Bezsonov, Khalil Ghanim, Refik Šabanadžović, Eric Gerets, Gustavo Dezotti, Pedro Monzón Most yellow cards (match): 9 – Austria vs United States (Group A) Most red cards (match): 2 – West Germany vs Netherlands (round of 16) Most cards in one match: 9 yellow cards and 1 red card – Austria vs United States (Group A) Sanctions By referee RefereeMatches10px Red10px YellowRed Cards AUT Helmut Kohl 4 1 15 1 second yellow BRA José Ramiz Wright 4 0 11 FRA Michel Vautrot 3 3 13 1 straight red2 second yellow MEX Edgardo Codesal 3 2 11 1 straight red1 second yellow ITA Tullio Lanese 3 1 16 1 second yellow FRA Joël Quiniou 3 1 9 1 straight red ARG Juan Carlos Loustau 2 2 7 2 second yellow SUI Kurt Röthlisberger 2 2 11 1 straight red1 second yellow GDR Siegfried Kirschen 2 1 8 1 second yellow URU Juan Daniel Cardellino 2 0 8 NIR Alan Snoddy 2 0 8 GER Aron Schmidhuber 2 0 7 POR Carlos Silva Valente 2 0 7 YUG Zoran Petrović 2 0 4 DEN Peter Mikkelsen 2 0 2 SYR Jamal Al Sharif 1 1 9 1 straight red2 second yellow SWE Erik Fredriksson 1 1 5 1 straight red JPN Shizuo Takada 1 1 5 1 second yellow ITA Pierluigi Pairetto 1 0 7 SCO George Smith 1 0 6 TUN Neji Jouini 1 0 4 ENG George Courtney 1 0 3 CHI Hernán Silva 1 0 3 ECU Elías Jácome 1 0 3 URS Alexey Spirin 1 0 3 POR Carlos Maciel 1 0 2 ESP Emilio Soriano Aladrén 1 0 2 BEL Marcel van Langenhove 1 0 2 ITA Luigi Agnolin 1 0 1 USA Vincent Mauro 1 0 1 Total 52 16 193 6 straight red11 second yellow By team Team 10px Yellow 10px Red Red Cards SuspensionsARG 24 3 R. Giusti vs Italy2nd yellow cardG. Dezotti vs West Germany (final)2nd yellow cardP. Monzón vs West Germany (final)straight red card J. Serrizuela vs BrazilP. Monzón vs Yugoslavia (quarter finals)S. Batista vs West Germany (final)C. Caniggia vs West Germany (final)R. Giusti vs West Germany (final)J. Olarticoechea vs West Germany (final)AUT 10 1 P. Artner vs United Statesstraight red card BEL 2 1 E. Gerets vs Uruguay2nd yellow card E. Gerets vs SpainBRA 7 1 R. Gomes vs Argentinastraight red card Mozer vs ScotlandCMR 15 2 B. Massing vs Argentina2nd yellow cardA. Kana-Biyik vs Argentinastraight red card B. Massing vs RomaniaA. Kana-Biyik vs RomaniaCOL 5 0 CRC 10 0 R. Gómez vs CzechoslovakiaCZE 6 1 Ľ. Moravčík vs West Germany2nd yellow card L. Kubík vs ItalyEGY 4 0 ENG 5 0 P. Gascoigne vs Italy (Match for third place)ITA 6 0 N. Berti vs Republic of IrelandKOR Korea Republic 8 1 D.Y. Yoon vs Uruguay NED 5 1 F. Rijkaard vs West Germany2nd yellow card IRL 5 0 C. Morris vs NetherlandsROM 12 0 M. Lăcătuş vs Republic of Ireland (round of 16)SCO 3 0 URS 3 1 V. Bezsonov vs Argentina V. Bezsonov vs CameroonESP 4 0 SWE 4 0 UAE 7 1 K. Ghanim vs Yugoslavia2nd yellow card URU 9 0 USA 7 1 E. Wynalda vs Czechoslovakiastraight red card E. Wynalda vs AustriaGER West Germany 9 1 R. Völler vs Netherlands (round of 16)2nd yellow card A. Brehme vs ColombiaR. Völler vs Czechoslovakia (Quarter finals)YUG 9 1 R. Šabanadžović vs Argentina2nd yellow card By individual 22em 1 red card ARG Gustavo Dezotti ARG Ricardo Giusti ARG Pedro Monzón AUT Peter Artner BEL Eric Gerets BRA Ricardo Gomes CMR André Kana-Biyik CMR Benjamin Massing CZE Ľubomír Moravčík KOR Yoon Deuk-Yeo NED Frank Rijkaard UAE Khalil Ghanim URS Volodymyr Bezsonov USA Eric Wynalda GER Rudi Völler YUG Refik Šabanadžović 3 yellow cards ARG Ricardo Giusti CMR Benjamin Massing CZE Ľubomír Moravčík FRG Andreas Brehme FRG Rudi Völler KOR Yoon Deuk-Yeo NED Frank Rijkaard YUG Refik Šabanadžović 2 yellow cards ARG Sergio Batista ARG Claudio Caniggia ARG Gustavo Dezotti ARG Diego Maradona ARG Pedro Monzón ARG Julio Olarticoechea ARG José Serrizuela ARG Pedro Troglio AUT Robert Pecl AUT Manfred Zsak BEL Eric Gerets BRA Mozer CMR André Kana-Biyik CMR Emile M'Bouh CMR Roger Milla CMR Victor N'Dip CMR Thomas N'Kono CMR Jules Onana COL Gabriel Gómez CRC Róger Gómez CRC Hector Marchena CZE Luboš Kubík CZE František Straka ENG Paul Gascoigne FRG Rudi Völler IRL Chris Morris ITA Nicola Berti ROM Gheorghe Hagi ROM Marius Lăcătuş UAE Khalil Ghanim UAE Yousuf Hussain USA Jimmy Banks URU José Perdomo 1 yellow card ARG Jorge Burruchaga ARG Sergio Goycochea ARG Oscar Ruggeri ARG Roberto Sensini ARG Juan Simón AUT Ernst Aigner AUT Gerald Glatzmeyer AUT Andreas Herzog AUT Klaus Lindenberger AUT Anton Pfeffer AUT Andreas Reisinger BRA Branco BRA Dunga BRA Mauro Galvão BRA Jorginho BRA Ricardo Rocha COL Leonel Álvarez COL Luis Fernando Herrera COL Luis Carlos Perea CRC Rónald González Brenes CRC Claudio Jara CZE Michal Bílek CZE Jozef Chovanec CZE Ivan Hašek CZE Miroslav Kadlec CZE Ivo Knoflíček CZE Ján Kocian CZE Tomáš Skuhravý EGY Magdi Abdelghani EGY Ibrahim Hassan EGY Ahmed Ramzy EGY Ahmed Shobair ENG Peter Beardsley ENG Steve McMahon ENG Paul Parker ENG Stuart Pearce FRG Thomas Berthold FRG Jürgen Klinsmann FRG Lothar Matthäus ITA Roberto Baggio ITA Luigi De Agostini ITA Riccardo Ferri ITA Giuseppe Giannini KOR Choi Kang-Hee KOR Choi Soon-Ho KOR Chung Hae-Won KOR Hwangbo Kwan KOR Lee Heung-Sil NED Wim Kieft NED Marco van Basten NED Jan Wouters IRL John Aldridge IRL Paul McGrath IRL Kevin Moran ROM Michael Klein ROM Ioan Lupescu ROM Dănuţ Lupu SCO Mo Johnston SCO Murdo MacLeod SCO David McPherson URS Vagiz Khidiyatullin URS Oleh Protasov URS Andrei Zygmantovich ESP Chendo ESP Manuel Jiménez Jiménez ESP Roberto ESP Francisco Villarroya SWE Joakim Nilsson SWE Stefan Schwarz SWE Glenn Strömberg SWE Jonas Thern UAE Hussain Ghuloum UAE Eissa Meer UAE Ibrahim Meer URU Fernando Álvez URU Enzo Francescoli URU Nelson Gutiérrez URU José Herrera URU José Pintos Saldanha USA Paul Caligiuri USA Tony Meola USA Bruce Murray USA Steve Trittschuh USA Mike Windischmann YUG Dragoljub Brnović YUG Srečko Katanec YUG Darko Pančev YUG Dragan Stojković YUG Zlatko Vujović YUG Zoran Vulić References Discipline, 1990 Fifa World Cup