Discipline

What Are Disciplinary Points?

Disciplinary points reflect how many cards your team collects during matches. They are tracked at the team level for every competition that uses group tables and serve as a tiebreaker when teams are level on points, goal difference, and goals scored.

How Are They Calculated?

After each match, your team's disciplinary points increase based on the cards received:

• Yellow card = 1 disciplinary point
• Red card = 2 disciplinary points

These points accumulate throughout the competition and are added to your team's total in the standings.

Where Are They Used?

Disciplinary points are used as a tiebreaker in table rankings for all competitions with group stages:

• National League
• Champions League (group stage)
• Continental Cup (group stage)
• Tournaments (group stage)
• Youth League

When two or more teams are tied, the ranking order is:

1. Points (higher is better)
2. Goal difference (higher is better)
3. Goals scored (higher is better)
4. Disciplinary points (lower is better)

A team with fewer disciplinary points is considered more fair and will be ranked higher in a tie.

Player Cards and Suspensions

Beyond team disciplinary points, individual player cards carry consequences in competitions:

• Yellow cards accumulate across matches. After collecting 3 yellow cards, the player receives a 1-match ban and the counter resets.
• A second yellow card in the same match results in an automatic red card and the player is sent off.
• A straight red card results in a 2-match ban and resets the yellow card counter.

Banned players cannot be selected for any official matches until their ban is served. Each match played reduces the ban by 1.

Season Reset

All player yellow card accumulations and match bans are reset at the start of each new season. Team disciplinary points in the standings also start fresh with each new competition.