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Fernando Teixeira Vitienes × Iker Casillas

21 matches of Iker Casillas (Real Madrid CF) refereed by Fernando Teixeira Vitienes, from 2003-04 to 2011-12.

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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

Fernando Teixeira Vitienes refereed 21 Liga matches in which Iker Casillas took part, from 2003-04 to 2011-12: 1,890 minutes played, 2 yellow cards and 0 red cards. With the other referees, over the same seasons (308 matches, 27,586 minutes), Iker Casillas receives 0.04 yellow cards per 90 minutes, against 0.10 with Fernando Teixeira Vitienes.

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

21 starts · 1,890 minutes · 9 seasons

Yellow cards

2for 1.1 expected

0.10 per 90 minutes with this referee · 0.04 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 cards21.11+0.0430.601.00no clear difference
Red cards00.14−0.0071.001.00no clear difference

The 21 matches

Minutes played and cards received by Iker Casillas in each match refereed by Fernando Teixeira Vitienes.

DateMatchTeamMinutesYellowsReds
3 Jan 2004Real Madrid CF 1-0 Real Murcia CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
20 Mar 2004Athletic Bilbao 4-2 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
3 Oct 2004Real Madrid CF 0-1 Deportivo de A CoruñaReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
3 Dec 2005Real Madrid CF 1-0 Getafe CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
29 Jan 2006RC Celta de Vigo 1-2 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
7 May 2006Real Madrid CF 3-3 Villarreal CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′10
12 Nov 2006CA Osasuna 1-4 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
4 Mar 2007Real Madrid CF 1-1 Getafe CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
20 Oct 2007RCD Espanyol 2-1 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
16 Dec 2007Real Madrid CF 2-0 CA OsasunaReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
30 Mar 2008Real Madrid CF 3-1 Sevilla FCReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
27 Sept 2008Real Betis 1-2 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′10
25 Jan 2009Real Madrid CF 1-0 Deportivo de A CoruñaReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
18 Apr 2009Recreativo de Huelva 0-1 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
31 May 2009CA Osasuna 2-1 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
24 Oct 2009Sporting de Gijón 0-0 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
12 Dec 2009Valencia CF 2-3 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
18 Apr 2010Real Madrid CF 2-0 Valencia CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
11 Sept 2010Real Madrid CF 1-0 CA OsasunaReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
19 Mar 2011Atlético Madrid 1-2 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00
2 Oct 2011RCD Espanyol 0-4 Real Madrid CFReal Madrid CF0′ → 90′00

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

Iker Casillas with other referees