Player discipline & suspensions

Card-sport divisions (football, hockey, ice hockey) get a Discipline tab beside Settings. It turns the cards your scorers record into a running disciplinary ledger, raises pending suspensions when a player crosses a threshold, and flags banned players across the console, the score pad, the public page and each player's own home. Discipline is a Pro feature (cards are already Pro), so free organisations see the upgrade prompt on the tab.

Rules

Two families of rule, each over the card colours your sport actually shows:

• Accumulation — a repeating count across the season. The FA default is 5 yellows → 1 match and 10 yellows → 2 matches. Each threshold is its own row; a player who reaches the 5th yellow gets a 1-match ban, and again a 2-match ban at the 10th.
• Dismissal — fired the moment a single card is shown. The default is second yellow → 1 match and straight red → 1 match.

Sport defaults are prefilled the first time you open the tab; edit the counts, the ban length or the colours, add or remove rows, then Save rules. Turn the whole thing off with the Enforce suspensions toggle without losing your rules.

Only person-attributed cards count — a card recorded against a named player, not an anonymous team card. (Ball-by-ball attribution is itself a Pro feature.)

The review queue

Every raised suspension lands Pending review — nothing takes effect until you say so:

• Confirm makes the ban active. Served progress shows as match pips (● ● ○), one per match; a ban is served as the player's team plays out its next fixtures (a forfeit by that team counts; abandoned or cancelled matches don't).
• Waive dismisses it with no ban.
• You can also Record suspension manually for any player in the division — handy for a report or an off-field incident.

If the card that triggered a pending suspension is later voided, the pending row disappears on its own. Once you've confirmed a ban it's yours to keep — a voided trigger then shows a "trigger card was voided" hint rather than deleting the ban, so you decide.

Where bans show up

• Entrants tab — a red card chip on each team with active bans; tap it to see who and how many matches are left.
• Score pad — a soft, dismissible warning when you record an event for a suspended player. It never blocks scoring — it just reminds you.
• Public division page — a Suspensions strip under the standings. Names follow each player's consent setting exactly like the stats table, so a player who hasn't consented to a public name shows as initials.
• The player's home (/me) — claimed players see their own active bans across every organisation.

Emails

Claimed players get an email when you confirm a suspension, and again when it's fully served. Players who haven't claimed a profile have no address on file, so they get neither — the console remains the source of truth for them.