Tottenham are tied with Everton in second place in ‘this’ stat during the 2025-26 Premier League campaign, with four dismissals.
Tottenham Hotspur‘s four red cards this Premier League season place them joint second in the division’s disciplinary table alongside Everton, according to StatMuse FC, a figure that tells its own story about one of the most persistent and damaging problems the club has faced throughout this catastrophic campaign.
Only Chelsea, who accumulated eight red cards across the season, received more sending offs than Tottenham in the entire Premier League. For a club that spent the majority of the campaign fighting relegation, where every player and every minute carried potentially irreversible consequences, the inability to maintain basic on-field discipline represents one of the clearest areas requiring immediate attention as Roberto De Zerbi plans his rebuild.
The human cost of those four red cards across the season was enormous. Cristian Romero’s two dismissals, including the reckless lunge on Casemiro at Manchester United that triggered a four-match suspension, left the club without their captain and defensive leader at the precise moments they could least afford his absence.
Micky van de Ven’s red card against Crystal Palace, hauling back Ismaila Sarr as he ran through on goal, not only cost Tottenham three points in a direct relegation clash but contributed to the subsequent collapse that conceded twice in first-half stoppage time.
Lapses in concentration have been a common cause
Each of those moments shared a common characteristic. They were not the product of genuine physical aggression or malicious intent. They were lapses in concentration and judgment at critical junctures, the kind of individual switching off that has defined Tottenham’s season as much as any tactical or technical failing. A team that concedes red cards through momentary recklessness rather than deliberate fouling is a team with a psychological discipline problem, and that is harder to coach out of players than any technical deficiency.
De Zerbi has spoken about the need to complete the squad with first-level players and to ensure the club never suffers like this again. Part of that process must involve instilling the kind of defensive discipline and situational awareness that prevents gifting opponents advantages through needless dismissals. Four red cards in a near-relegation season is not merely a statistic. It is a pattern that cost Tottenham points, momentum, and belief at the most damaging possible moments throughout an already desperate campaign.