Skip to content
The Football Newsroom
Subscribe

NewsThe Game

World record 53 red cards shown in Brazilian youth game

A world record of 43 players, eight members of staff and two board members were sent off during an under-20 championship match between Uberlandia and Mamore in Brazil.

— BBC Sport — Football, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

5 outlets3 languages4 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

BBC Sport — Football

EN · GB

Followed by

4

outlets in 3 languages over 20 h 37 min.

Our read

Corroborated (3)

3 of 4 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had; the other 1 repeat it. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 4 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 5 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

5 outlets · first-seen order
  1. +0 min
  2. +8 h 29 min

    Mundo Deportivo — FútbolES · ESOwn reporting

    Récord mundial: ¡53 tarjetas rojas!

  3. +10 h 57 min
  4. +17 h 42 min
  5. +20 h 37 min

First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.