Disciplinary Details

The Football Association's disciplinary system for the 2009-10 season works something like this:

Yellow Cards

• Players with a total of five bookings by the end of December will receive a one-match ban. 
   
• Those given 10 yellow cards by the second Sunday in April [TBD] will get a further two-match ban. 
    
• A three-match ban comes into force for 15 cautions and a four-game suspension for 20 bookings

Red Cards

• A player red-carded for receiving a second yellow card in the same match will be automatically suspended for one match. 
    
• A player red-carded for denying a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by physical means or by handling the ball will be automatically suspended for one match. 
    
• A player red-carded for using offensive, insulting or abusive language will be automatically suspended for two matches. 
    
• A player red-carded for violent conduct, serious foul play or spitting at an opponent will automatically be suspended for three matches. 
    
• Players red-carded for a second time in the same season, in addition to the automatic suspension applicable to the offence, will be suspended for one extra match. 
    
• A player red-carded for a third time will be suspended for an extra two matches, and so on.

Periods of suspension will commence with the next game following the date of the last offence, and shall cover all domestic League, League Cup, FA Challenge Cup matches and Friendly matches, until such time that he player's recognised senior team has completed the number of matches appropriate to the punishment.

Any period of suspension or part thereof which remains outstanding at the end of a season must be served at the commencement of the next following season.

Link to latest FA-Premier Bookings Table

Premier League matches only. 
The points column is calculated by FA-Premier.com based on:
 1 points per yellow card; 2 for a second yellow, and 3 points for a red card.