{"id":7086,"date":"2026-02-24T23:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2026\/02\/24\/chelseas-discipline-problem-pushes-them-toward-unwanted-red-card-mark\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:07:05","slug":"chelseas-discipline-problem-pushes-them-toward-unwanted-red-card-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2026\/02\/24\/chelseas-discipline-problem-pushes-them-toward-unwanted-red-card-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea\u2019s Discipline Problem Pushes Them Toward Unwanted Red-Card Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea\u2019s disciplinary run this season has left the club staring at the prospect of matching an unwanted Premier League record for dismissals. The Blues have accumulated six red cards in league play and eight across all competitions, with two further sendings coming in the Champions League and Carabao Cup. Red cards as of Feb. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Those six Premier League dismissals occurred under three different managers: Enzo Maresca, Calum McFarlane and Liam Rosenior, which suggests the issue is not confined to a single manager\u2019s approach. In the top flight the club have averaged a red card every 4.5 games and still have 11 league fixtures remaining. At the current rate the season could end with eight or possibly nine red cards; nine is the existing Premier League high, shared by Sunderland (2009\u201310) and Queens Park Rangers (2011\u201312).<\/p>\n<p>The individual dismissals this season were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wesley Fofana, Chelsea 1\u20131 Burnley, Feb. 21 \u2014 Liam Rosenior<\/li>\n<li>Marc Cucurella, Fulham 2\u20131 Chelsea, Jan. 7 \u2014 Calum McFarlane<\/li>\n<li>Mois\u00e9s Caicedo, Chelsea 1\u20131 Arsenal, Nov. 30 \u2014 Enzo Maresca<\/li>\n<li>Malo Gusto, Chelsea 0\u20133 Nottingham Forest, Oct. 18 \u2014 Enzo Maresca<\/li>\n<li>Trevoh Chalobah, Chelsea 1\u20133 Brighton, Sept. 27 \u2014 Enzo Maresca<\/li>\n<li>Robert S\u00e1nchez, Man Utd 2\u20131 Chelsea, Sept. 20 \u2014 Enzo Maresca<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Historically, several clubs have reached eight red cards in a single Premier League season: Leicester City (1994\u201395), Blackburn Rovers (1998\u201399), West Ham United (1999\u201300) and Newcastle United (2008\u201309). From that group, Leicester, Blackburn and Newcastle were relegated in those seasons, while West Ham finished ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland\u2019s season of 2009\u201310 (nine red cards) saw the club finish comfortably in the bottom half, and QPR\u2019s 2011\u201312 campaign also featured nine dismissals; they survived only on the final day despite a famously late loss to Manchester City. The pattern underlines a familiar connection between poor discipline and teams that spend extended periods without the ball or a step behind superior opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have six Premier League red cards and eight across all competitions for Chelsea this season, Feb24 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,969],"tags":[1066,1047,1089],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","tag-carabao-cup","tag-champions-league","tag-chelsea-struggles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}