Mateo Busquets Ferrer
Barça did better How to read the numbers
He has not refereed a Clásico. He has refereed 58 matches in La Liga from 2023/24 to 2025/26. With him, Madrid took 14 points where the odds expected 13.0; Barça took 16 where they expected 12.8.
With each club
All his La Liga games with each club, 2023/24 to 2025/26.
 Real Madrid Small sample: fewer than 15 games. |  FC Barcelona Small sample: fewer than 15 games. | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | games with him | 6 |
| 4–2–0 | won–drew–lost | 5–1–0 |
| 14 | points won | 16 |
| 13.0 | points the odds expected | 12.8 |
| 3 usual: 1.3 | penalties won | 4 usual: 1.2 |
| 0 usual: 0.5 | penalties conceded | 0 usual: 0.6 |
"Usual" is the club's rate with other referees in the same seasons, scaled to these games.
Cards and penalties in all his league games
- yellow cards per game
- 5.55
- league average 4.56
- red cards per game
- 0.34
- league average 0.23
- penalties per game
- 0.29
- league average 0.29
More cards can reflect the games he was given, not only how he referees.
Penalty data is missing for 2 of his games.
Every game with each club
Real Madrid won 4; the odds expected about 4
- W
- D
- D
- W
- W
- W
FC Barcelona won 5; the odds expected about 4
- W
- W
- W
- W
- D
- W
Show the games
Real Madrid
- Real Madrid 5–0 Alavés won
- Las Palmas 1–1 Real Madrid drew
- Atlético Madrid 1–1 Real Madrid drew
- Real Valladolid 0–3 Real Madrid won
- Sevilla 0–2 Real Madrid won
- Real Madrid 4–0 Valencia won
FC Barcelona
- FC Barcelona 2–1 Alavés won
- FC Barcelona 1–0 Las Palmas won
- Villarreal 1–5 FC Barcelona won
- FC Barcelona 3–0 Osasuna won
- Rayo Vallecano 1–1 FC Barcelona drew
- Atlético Madrid 1–2 FC Barcelona won
How to read the numbers
Expected points and expected wins come from the pre-match betting odds with the bookmaker margin removed. Like every figure here they are recorded outcomes: they do not establish decision accuracy or anything about a referee's intent. Small samples produce extreme rates, so treat anything under 15 games cautiously.
Across the 23 current referee and club outcome tests, the smallest adjusted q-value is 0.094. None is below 0.05, so no referee's record here is statistically distinguishable from chance at the usual threshold. That is not the same as proving every effect is zero.
Sources
- El Colegiado, La Liga refereeing data (matches, odds, cards, penalties; CC BY-NC 4.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from football-data.co.uk)
- El Colegiado, methodology
- RFEF CTA, current referee list
- football-data.co.uk, La Liga results and pre-match odds
- Wikipedia, Clásico match reports and cup results (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Penalties from 2022/23 come from Wikipedia match reports and may miss some.
Fan project. Figures are recorded outcomes computed from El Colegiado's open data. They describe statistical deviations and are not evidence of misconduct by any referee. Club colours are used for identification only.