Italy are averaging 13.3 fouls drawn per game in 2026/2027, with matches involving them seeing 23.5 total fouls drawn on average. Below you'll find player foul-drawn-rate forecasts, the matchup read for the upcoming fixture against Belgium, and a full match-by-match log.
Pio Esposito leads with 17 fouls drawn across 8 qualifying appearances (2.13/g, 75% hit rate). The fouls-drawn-rate table below ranks every Italy player by fouls drawn per qualifying appearance and six-game form.
Italy are averaging 13.3 fouls drawn per game over 10 games and concede 10.2 for a match-total of 23.5. They commit 10.7 fouls per game themselves (drawn/committed ratio of 1.24).
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Fouls-drawn matchup blends our attackers' draw rate (50%) with the opposition's fouls-committed rate (50%). For the upcoming fixture against Belgium, the page weights Italy's ball-carriers against the opposition's last-season fouls-committed rate.
Italy's ratio is currently 1.24 — that means they draw 1.24 fouls for every one they commit. Above 1.0 is good for forward foul-draw markets; below 1.0 is the reverse.
All numbers come from match-level Sportmonks data ingested into Statz — 10 Italy fixtures in the active window for 2026/2027. Team-level fouls drawn is aggregated from per-player rows since Sportmonks doesn't always populate it directly.
A player must have featured for at least 20 minutes in a fixture for that match to count toward their fouls-drawn rate and form. Cameo appearances are excluded.
| Player | Position | Apps | Fouls drawn | Per game | 1+ hit rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matteo Politano | attacker | 5 | 7 | 1.4 | 100% |
| Moise Kean | attacker | 4 | 5 | 1.25 | 100% |
| Mattia Zaccagni | attacker | 2 | 4 | 2 | 100% |
| Davide Bartesaghi | defender | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Luca Lipani | midfielder | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Cher Ndour | midfielder | 2 | 2 | 1 | 100% |
| Luca Koleosho | attacker | 2 | 2 | 1 | 100% |
| Raoul Bellanova | midfielder | 1 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| Alessandro Buongiorno | defender | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Marco Palestra | defender | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Luigi Cherubini | attacker | 1 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| Honest Ahanor | defender | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Sandro Tonali | midfielder | 7 | 15 | 2.14 | 86% |
| Mateo Retegui | attacker | 8 | 11 | 1.38 | 75% |
| Pio Esposito | attacker | 8 | 17 | 2.13 | 75% |
| Nicolò Barella | midfielder | 7 | 7 | 1 | 71% |
| Alessandro Bastoni | defender | 6 | 7 | 1.17 | 67% |
| Davide Frattesi | midfielder | 3 | 2 | 0.67 | 67% |
| Riccardo Orsolini | attacker | 3 | 4 | 1.33 | 67% |
| Giovanni Di Lorenzo | defender | 5 | 4 | 0.8 | 60% |
| Gianluca Mancini | defender | 6 | 5 | 0.83 | 50% |
| Giacomo Raspadori | attacker | 4 | 4 | 1 | 50% |
| Federico Gatti | defender | 2 | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| Fabio Chiarodia | defender | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Niccolò Pisilli | midfielder | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Score | Team fouls drawn | Opposition fouls drawn | Match total | Top player |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jun 2026 | Greece | Away | 0-1 | 11 | 13 | 24 | Pio Esposito (4) |
| 3 Jun 2026 | Luxembourg | Away | 0-1 | 13 | 9 | 22 | Luca Lipani (2) |
| 31 Mar 2026 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Away | 1-1 | 19 | 8 | 27 | Sandro Tonali (3) |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Northern Ireland | Home | 2-0 | 8 | 10 | 18 | Alessandro Bastoni (2) |
| 16 Nov 2025 | Norway | Home | 1-4 | 8 | 15 | 23 | Matteo Politano (2) |
| 13 Nov 2025 | Moldova | Away | 0-2 | 13 | 8 | 21 | Raoul Bellanova (3) |
| 14 Oct 2025 | Israel | Home | 3-0 | 10 | 11 | 21 | Mateo Retegui (4) |
| 11 Oct 2025 | Estonia | Away | 1-3 | 22 | 8 | 30 | Pio Esposito (5) |
| 8 Sep 2025 | Israel | Away | 4-5 | 15 | 11 | 26 | Sandro Tonali (3) |
| 5 Sep 2025 | Estonia | Home | 5-0 | 14 | 9 | 23 | Sandro Tonali (3) |