El ColegiadoData on refereeing in the Liga

César Muñiz Fernández × Xavi

21 matches of Xavi (FC Barcelona) refereed by César Muñiz Fernández, from 2000-01 to 2013-14.

Report an error on this pageHow to read this page
Player data: 2000-01 → 2021-22 only. Player-level match sheets come from Zenodo (BeSoccer, CC BY-NC 4.0 licence, non-commercial use). No free source provides them after 2021-22: more recent matches are not counted here. Penalties conceded are not attributed to players in the source, so they are not analysed.

In short

César Muñiz Fernández refereed 21 Liga matches in which Xavi took part, from 2000-01 to 2013-14: 1,652 minutes played, 2 yellow cards and 0 red cards. With the other referees, over the same seasons (407 matches, 32,625 minutes), Xavi receives 0.09 yellow cards per 90 minutes, against 0.11 with César Muñiz Fernández.

Verdict: no clear difference with the other referees.

Cards are rare (less than one per player per match): over a few dozen matches, only a very large deviation can be told apart from chance. "No clear difference" does not mean "no effect".

Matches

21

20 starts · 1,652 minutes · 14 seasons

Yellow cards

2for 1.9 expected

0.11 per 90 minutes with this referee · 0.09 with the others

no clear difference

Red cards

0for 0.1 expected

0.00 per 90 minutes with this referee · 0.01 with the others

no clear difference
For experts: statistical tests and method

Permutation test stratified by season: within each season, the player's matches given to this referee are drawn again at random among all the player's matches (same number per season). Deviation = (observed − expected cards) per 90 minutes played with this referee; positive = more cards than expected. q: Benjamini-Hochberg correction over the 3,781 pairs with at least 10 matches, separately for yellows and reds.

MeasureObservedExpectedDeviation / 90 minpqVerdict
Yellow cards21.88+0.0070.841.00no clear difference
Red cards00.06−0.0031.001.00no clear difference

The 21 matches

Minutes played and cards received by Xavi in each match refereed by César Muñiz Fernández.

DateMatchTeamMinutesYellowsReds
2 Dec 2000RC Celta de Vigo 3-3 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 48′00
2 Feb 2002CD Tenerife 0-6 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
19 Apr 2003Real Madrid CF 1-1 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
5 Oct 2003FC Barcelona 0-1 Valencia CFFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
3 Oct 2004FC Barcelona 1-0 CD NumanciaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
22 Oct 2005FC Barcelona 3-0 CA OsasunaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
15 Oct 2006FC Barcelona 3-1 Sevilla FCFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
4 Feb 2007CA Osasuna 0-0 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
20 May 2007Atlético Madrid 0-6 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 81′00
26 Aug 2007Racing de Santander 0-0 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
22 Mar 2009FC Barcelona 6-0 Málaga CFFC Barcelona0′ → 67′00
25 Apr 2009Valencia CF 2-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 76′00
14 Mar 2010FC Barcelona 3-0 Valencia CFFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
24 Apr 2010FC Barcelona 3-1 Xerez CDFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00
20 Nov 2010UD Almería 0-8 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 46′00
19 Mar 2011FC Barcelona 2-1 Getafe CFFC Barcelona0′ → 90′10
16 Apr 2011Real Madrid CF 1-1 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 90′10
17 Sept 2011FC Barcelona 8-0 CA OsasunaFC Barcelona0′ → 61′00
25 Oct 2011Granada CF 0-1 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona0′ → 83′00
26 Aug 2012CA Osasuna 1-2 FC BarcelonaFC Barcelona↑ 70′ → 90′00
14 Sept 2013FC Barcelona 3-2 Sevilla FCFC Barcelona0′ → 90′00

↑: came on as a substitute. Stoppage time is not recorded in the source: minutes stop at 90.

Xavi with other referees

  • Undiano Mallenco31 matches
  • David Fernández Borbalán22 matches
  • Fernando Teixeira Vitienes22 matches
  • Pérez Lasa21 matches
  • Iturralde González20 matches
  • Manuel Mejuto González17 matches
  • Javier Turienzo Álvarez17 matches
  • Carlos Velasco Carballo17 matches
  • Ramírez Domínguez16 matches
  • Carlos Clos Gómez15 matches
  • Bernardino González Vázquez15 matches
  • Mateu Lahoz15 matches
  • Alfonso Pérez Burrull14 matches
  • Arturo Daudén Ibáñez12 matches
  • Delgado Ferreiro11 matches
  • José Losantos Omar11 matches
  • Luis Medina Cantalejo11 matches
  • Carlos Megía Dávila11 matches
  • Víctor Esquinas Torres10 matches
  • Evaristo Puentes Leira10 matches