2015 Copa América disciplinary record

In the 2015 Copa América, the main disciplinary action taken against players came in the form of red and yellow cards.

Any player picking up a red card was expelled from the pitch and automatically banned for his country's next match, whether via a straight red or second yellow. After a straight red card, FIFA would conduct a hearing and could extend this ban beyond one match. If the ban extended beyond the end of the finals (i.e. if a player was sent off in the match in which his team was eliminated), it had to be served in the team's next competitive international match(es). In most cases, that was the first matches of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying.

• Total number of yellow cards: 113
• Average yellow cards per match: 4.71
• Total number of red cards: 7
• Average red cards per match: 0.25
• First yellow card: Fidel Martínez (Ecuador against Chile)
• First red card: Matías Fernández (Chile against Ecuador)
• Fastest yellow card from kick off: 5 minutes (Abel Hernández; Uruguay against Paraguay)
• Fastest yellow card after coming on as substitute: 1 minute (Derlis González; Paraguay against Argentina and Franklin Lucena; Venezuela against Colombia)
• Latest yellow card in a match without extra time: 90+2 minutes (Matías Fernández; Chile against Ecuador)
• Fastest dismissal from kick off: 21 minutes (Carlos Zambrano; Peru against Chile)
• Fastest dismissal of a substitute: 18 minutes (Carlos Bacca; Colombia against Brazil)
• Latest dismissal in a match without extra time: 90+4 minutes (Carlos Bacca; Colombia against Brazil and Neymar; Brazil against Colombia)
• Least time difference between two yellow cards given to the same player: 19 minutes (Matías Fernández; Chile against Ecuador)
• Most yellow cards (team): 14 (Paraguay)
• Most red cards (team): 2 (Uruguay)
• Fewest yellow cards (team): 4 (Mexico)
• Most yellow cards (player): 3 (Richard Ortiz)
• Most red cards (player): 1 (Fernando Amorebieta, Carlos Bacca, Edinson Cavani, Jorge Fucile, Matías Fernández, Neymar, Carlos Zambrano)
• Most yellow cards (match): 8 (Argentina against Colombia)
• Most red cards (match): 2 (Chile against Uruguay, Brazil against Colombia)
• Fewest yellow cards (match): 1 (Chile against Peru)
• Most cards in one match: 6 yellow cards, 2 red cards (Chile against Uruguay)

Day	Match	Round	Referee	Total cards	Yellow	Second yellow	Straight red
Day 01	Chile vs Ecuador	Group A	Néstor Pitana	5	4	1	0
Day 02	Mexico vs Bolivia	Group A	Enrique Cáceres	3	3	0	0
Day 03	Uruguay vs Jamaica	Group B	José Argote	3	3	0	0
Day 03	Argentina vs Paraguay	Group B	Wilmar Roldán	6	6	0	0
Day 04	Colombia vs Venezuela	Group C	Andrés Cunha	7	7	0	0
Day 04	Brazil vs Peru	Group C	Roberto Garía	4	4	0	0
Day 05	Ecuador vs Bolivia	Group A	Joel Aguilar	5	5	0	0
Day 05	Chile vs Mexico	Group A	Víctor Hugo Carrillo	2	2	0	0
Day 06	Paraguay vs Jamaica	Group B	Carlos Vera	3	3	0	0
Day 06	Argentina vs Uruguay	Group B	Sandro Ricci	6	6	0	0
Day 07	Brazil vs Colombia	Group C	Enrique Osses	6	4	0	2
Day 08	Peru vs Venezuela	Group C	Raúl Orosco	5	4	0	1
Day 09	Mexico vs Ecuador	Group A	José Argote	6	6	0	0
Day 09	Chile vs Bolivia	Group A	Andrés Cunha	3	3	0	0
Day 010	Uruguay vs Paraguay	Group B	Roberto García	6	6	0	0
Day 010	Argentina vs Jamaica	Group B	Julio Bascuñán	5	5	0	0
Day 011	Colombia vs Peru	Group C	Néstor Pitana	5	5	0	0
Day 011	Brazil vs Venezuela	Group C	Enrique Cáceres	4	4	0	0
Day 014	Chile vs Uruguay	Quarterfinal	Sandro Ricci	8	6	2	0
Day 015	Bolivia vs Peru	Quarterfinal	Wilmar Roldán	7	7	0	0
Day 016	Argentina vs Colombia	Quarterfinal	Roberto García	8	8	0	0
Day 017	Brazil vs Paraguay	Quarterfinal	Andrés Cunha	5	5	0	0
Day 019	Chile vs Peru	Semifinal	José Argote	2	1	0	1
Day 020	Argentina vs Paraguay	Semifinal	Sandro Ricci	5	5	0	0
Day 023	Peru vs Paraguay	Third place match	Raúl Orosco	3	3	0	0
Day 024	Chile vs Argentina	Final	Wilmar Roldán	7	7	0	0

Referee	Matches	Red	Yellow	Red Cards	PKs awarded
Sandro Ricci	3	3	17	1 straight reds 2 second yellows	0
José Argote	3	2	10	2 straight reds	1
Enrique Osses	1	2	4	2 straight reds	0
Néstor Pitana	2	1	9	1 second yellow	1
Wilmar Roldán	3	0	20		2
Roberto García	3	0	18		0
Andrés Cunha	3	0	15		1
Enrique Cáceres	2	0	7		0
Raúl Orosco	2	0	7		0
Joel Aguilar	1	0	5		1
Julio Bascuñán	1	0	5		0
Carlos Vera	1	0	3		0
Víctor Hugo Carrillo	1	0	2		1

Team	Yellow	Red	Red Cards	Reason
Uruguay	11	3	Edinson Cavani vs Chile second yellow Jorge Fucile vs Chile second yellow
Peru	14	1	Carlos Zambrano vs Chile straight red
Chile	12	1	Matías Fernández vs Ecuador second yellow
Colombia	11	1	Carlos Bacca vs Brazil straight red
Brazil	9	1	Neymar vs Colombia straight red
Venezuela	8	1	Fernando Amorebieta vs Peru straight red
Argentina	15	0
Paraguay	15	0
Bolivia	12	0
Ecuador	7	0
Jamaica	6	0
Mexico	4	0

1 red card

3 yellow cards

• Javier Mascherano
• Marcos Rojo
• Richard Ortiz

2 yellow cards

1 yellow card

The Fair Play Award was given to the team with the best overall discipline throughout the tournament, Peru. Teams were given a certain number of points — 15 in the first stage, 5 in the quarter-finals, and 10 points for the remaining four teams — from which points were deducted depending on the infraction. As the team that advanced past the first stage with the most points, Peru were awarded the trophy. Teams that drop below 0 points were excluded from winning the award.^[1]