Referees · Germany
Richard Hempel: referee stats
Richard Hempel has refereed 5 league games in the 2026/27 season, with 5.2 yellow cards, 0.2 red cards and 0.2 penalties a game. That is above the same leagues' average this season: 3.9 yellow and 0.2 red a game. The latest game was Union Berlin – 1. FC Köln 1–1 on 1 November (7 yellow, 0 red). Richard Hempel has refereed 43 league games in our data in 5 seasons (2022/23–2026/27), 5 of them this season. Cards a game: 5.1 yellow and 0.4 red; the average in the same leagues and seasons was 4.5 yellow and 0.2 red.
This season's games
| Date | League | Match | Score | Yellow | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Nov | Bundesliga |  Union Berlin –  1. FC Köln | 1–1 | 7 | 0 |
| 17 Oct | Bundesliga |  Schalke 04 –  Mainz | 0–1 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 Sep | Bundesliga |  Freiburg –  Mönchengladbach | 5–0 | 5 | 1 |
| 28 Aug | 2. Bundesliga |  Braunschweig –  Hertha | 3–5 | 6 | 0 |
| 15 Aug | 2. Bundesliga |  Kaiserslautern –  Karlsruhe | 0–0 | 6 | 0 |
Yellow and red cards of both teams. A match with a page of its own is a link.
By season
| Season | League | Games | Yellow a game | Red a game | Penalties a game | Home wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | Bundesliga | 3 | 4.67 | 0.33 | 0.00 | 33% |
| 2026/27 | 2. Bundesliga | 2 | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0% |
| 2025/26 | 2. Bundesliga | 10 | 5.50 | 0.40 | 0.10 | 60% |
| 2024/25 | 2. Bundesliga | 16 | 5.69 | 0.31 | 0.25 | 56% |
| 2023/24 | 2. Bundesliga | 9 | 4.33 | 0.56 | 0.33 | 22% |
| 2022/23 | 2. Bundesliga | 3 | 3.33 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 67% |
| 5 seasons | 43 | 5.14 | 0.35 | 0.21 | 47% |
Cards of both teams as the source records them, a red counted once (twice when a card tip is settled). Penalties awarded in play, scored or missed, where our data has every game's events (else –).
Leagues
- 2. Bundesliga40 games
- Bundesliga3 games
See also
Germany: all referees 2. Bundesliga: table and matches All referees
League games of every season in our data; a referee gets a page with enough games in the last three. A name that appears in two games on one day belongs to two people and gets no page. History only, never a prediction.
The day's tips on Telegram
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