{"id":634629,"date":"2026-06-12T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634629\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:00:08","slug":"world-cup-2026-what-are-the-tournaments-red-card-suspension-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634629\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: What are the tournament&#8217;s red card suspension rules?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players receiving a red card in the 2026 World Cup will receive a one-match suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This applies to both straight red cards and red cards that are the result of the same player being cautioned twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fifa does hold the right to impose &#8220;further sanctions&#8221; if it deems it necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the opening game of the tournament, three red cards were shown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means that South Africa&#8217;s Yaya Sithole and Themba Zwane will miss their side&#8217;s match against the Czech Republic, while Mexico defender Cesar Montes will miss their meeting with South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players can also receive suspensions for an accumulation across multiple matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should players received two bookings, they will be handed a one-match suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, yellow cards are wiped following the conclusion of the group stage. They are wiped again following the conclusion of the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Players receiving a red card in the 2026 World Cup will receive a one-match suspension. This applies to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-634629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}