Discipline features are available if the tournament’s package includes the Discipline module. Discipline depends on the Players module: if your package does not include Players, Discipline is not available either. In a tournament whose Player Usage is “Without players”, card and sanction actions tied to a player are not available.
Cards and automatic sanctions
- A red card and a red for a second yellow create a sanction of the number of matches you set on the Penalties screen.
- Yellow-card accumulation sanctions are off in a new tournament. If you choose a number under “Yellow card limit”, a player receives a one-match sanction after that many yellow cards. A change to the limit applies only to stages that have not started yet.
- Yellow-card accumulation restarts when moving from groups to knockout; preliminary and reduction stages do not reset the count. Card records and statistics are not deleted.
- Cards shown in a match stay valid even if that match is cancelled later.
The Penalties screen
- Player and team manager sanctions are listed together with the matches they apply to.
- A suspended player cannot be chosen for that match’s team sheet and cannot be written into the match events.
- With “Add manual sanction” you enter a non-card sanction for a player or a team manager.
- After a referee report or a disciplinary review you can change a sanction’s length by giving a reason; it cannot go below the number of matches already served. You can cancel a sanction with a reason; the cancellation record is kept.
Disciplinary Cases
A sanction and a disciplinary case are not the same thing: a card creates a sanction automatically, while a case is opened separately and decided. Tournament management opens the case; if needed, it asks the team manager for a defence and the assigned referee for a report, and then gives the final decision. The team manager is notified only when a defence is requested; a missed deadline does not create a decision automatically. If a decision is changed, the earlier decision is not deleted; the new decision is added as a separate record. A referee cannot open a case directly; they send a case request, which tournament management approves or rejects.
Only active sanctions are shown on the public page; internal case notes and defences never leave the system.