Statistics

Discipline

Sendings-off in the Clásico: by team, decade and competition, the players sent off most often, matches with two or more reds, and how a side fared after going down to ten men.

Filters

Red-card coverage. Red-card data is fully audited for 242 of 264 matches in this slice (92% coverage). The totals below count only recorded sendings-off: the absence of a card in an unaudited match is unknown, not a clean record.

Totals

Sendings-off 61 recorded in this slice
Straight reds 36 direct red card
Second yellows 25 two yellows → off
Verified matches 242 91.7% of the slice

Reds by team

Sendings-off per team.
Team Reds Straight 2nd yellow
FC Barcelona crest Barça 26 17 9
Real Madrid crest Real Madrid 35 19 16

Reds by decade

Sendings-off per decade.
DecadeReds
1900s 0
1910s 0
1920s 0
1930s 1
1940s 1
1950s 4
1960s 2
1970s 2
1980s 9
1990s 7
2000s 8
2010s 18
2020s 9

Reds by competition

Sendings-off per competition.
CompetitionReds
Copa del Rey 9
Copa de la Coronación 0
La Liga 38
Copa de la Liga 3
Supercopa de España 9
Champions League 2

Players sent off

Players by number of sendings-off.
Player Reds Straight 2nd yellow
Sergio Ramos 5 2 3
Hristo Stoichkov 2 2 0
Roberto Carlos 2 1 1
Adriano 1 1 0
Aloísio (footballer, born 1963) 1 1 0
Andriy Lunin 1 1 0
Antonio Rüdiger 1 1 0
Balmanya 1 1 0
Benito 1 1 0
Benito Rubiñán 1 1 0
Bernd Schuster 1 0 1
Casemiro 1 0 1
Cristiano Ronaldo 1 0 1
Dani Carvajal 1 1 0
David Villa 1 1 0
Eladio Silvestre 1 1 0
Enrique Morán 1 0 1
Felo 1 1 0
Fernando Hierro 1 0 1
Frenkie de Jong 1 1 0
Guti 1 0 1
Isco 1 1 0
John Metgod 1 0 1
José Manuel Pinto 1 1 0
José Santamaría 1 1 0
Jude Bellingham 1 1 0
Julio Alberto 1 1 0
Lassana Diarra 1 0 1
Lucas Vázquez 1 1 0
Luís Figo 1 0 1
László Kubala 1 1 0
Marcelo 1 1 0
Mesut Özil 1 1 0
Míchel Salgado 1 0 1
Oleguer 1 0 1
Oliva 1 1 0
Paco Bonet 1 0 1
Patrick Kluivert 1 1 0
Pedri 1 0 1
Pepe 1 1 0
Rafael Martín Vázquez 1 0 1
Raúl Albiol 1 1 0
Ronald Araújo 1 0 1
Ronald Koeman 1 1 0
Sergi Roberto 1 1 0
Sergio Busquets 1 0 1
Steve Archibald 1 0 1
Uli Stielike 1 1 0
Vicente Miera 1 1 0
Víctor Muñoz (footballer, born 1957) 1 0 1
Víctor Valdés 1 0 1
Wojciech Szczęsny 1 1 0
Xavi 1 0 1
Zoltán Czibor 1 1 0
Ángel Di María 1 0 1

Results with ten men

How a team fared in matches where it had a player sent off (counted once per match).

Record when a team was reduced to ten men.
Team Matches W D L Win %
FC Barcelona crest Barça 25 8 5 12 32.0
Real Madrid crest Real Madrid 31 7 6 18 22.6

Matches with two or more reds

Matches with at least two sendings-off.
Date Match Reds Barça Real
1953-04-05 FC Barcelona crest B v R Real Madrid crest 2 1 1
1958-10-26 FC Barcelona crest B v R Real Madrid crest 2 1 1
1982-11-27 Real Madrid crest R v B FC Barcelona crest 2 0 2
1985-05-01 FC Barcelona crest B v R Real Madrid crest 2 1 1
1990-02-15 Real Madrid crest R v B FC Barcelona crest 2 2 0
2009-11-29 FC Barcelona crest B v R Real Madrid crest 2 1 1
2011-04-27 Real Madrid crest R v B FC Barcelona crest 2 1 1
2011-08-17 FC Barcelona crest B v R Real Madrid crest 3 1 2
2025-04-26 FC Barcelona crest B v R Real Madrid crest 3 0 3
2025-10-26 Real Madrid crest R v B FC Barcelona crest 2 1 1