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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta was shown a yellow card by referee Anthony Taylor in the final few minutes of their 0-0 draw against Liverpool at Emirates Stadium
Mikel Arteta looks down during an Arsenal match at Emirates Stadium
Anthony Taylor showed Mikel Arteta a yellow card late on during Arsenal's 0-0 draw with Liverpool(Image: Javier Garcia/Shutterstock)
Everything you need to know about Mikel Arteta's yellow card during the 0-0 draw with Liverpool
Mikel Arteta received a yellow card in the 83rd minute of Thursday night's 0-0 draw with Liverpool. Sky Sports commentator Peter Drury confirmed on their coverage: "Mikel Arteta has just been cautioned for repeatedly leaving his technical area."
The International Football Association Board (IFAB), a self-regulatory body that determines the Laws of the Game, states in Law 12.4, which covers disciplinary action for fouls and misconduct, that a team official "clearly/persistently not respecting the confines of their team's technical area" is a cautionable offence. Deliberately leaving the technical area to "show dissent towards, or remonstrate with, a match official" or "act in a provocative or inflammatory manner" is a sending-off offence.
Arteta should have received a warning beforehand, as that is what "occasionally leaving the confines of the technical area without committing another offence" usually results in. IFAB states that "repeated or blatant offences should result in a caution or sending-off".
The caution is Arteta's second of the 2025/26 season, but first in the Premier League. That means he is two more yellow cards away from an automatic one-match suspension, and they count the same across all domestic competitions, so for Arsenal, that includes the EFL Cup, the FA Cup and the league.
Receiving six yellow cards results in a two-game ban, and nine cautions cause a three-game suspension. A team official accumulating 12 would face a sanction as determined by a regulatory commission, which is the same process used to decide any sanctions for charges by the Football Association.
Unlike for the accumulation of yellow cards by players, there is no cut-off point at which the total of cautions that result in a suspension rises throughout the season. The only point at which a team official's amount resets is at the end of a season.
Arteta's other yellow card this term came in the Champions League when Arsenal won 3-1 against Bayern Munich in their fifth match of the league phase. His caution came just before half-time in the 43rd minute of that game, in which opposition head coach Vincent Kompany also received a yellow card in the 59th minute.
The Arsenal manager's booking versus Bayern came after waving his arms around while running up and down the touchline to protest about a foul on Bukayo Saka by Konrad Laimer to stop a counterattack. Bayern's player was shown a yellow card first by referee Marco Guida, before the Italian then ran over to brandish one to Arteta.
UEFA rules differ from the FA's, although three yellow cards for team officials still result in cautions. Subsequent one-game suspensions follow for the fifth, seventh and ninth cautions, or as they describe "any subsequent odd-numbered caution".
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