Lens

How Lens play under each referee

Every Lens game grouped by individual referee. Over this sample Lens are 78-30-35 (54.5%); each ref win rate below is compared to that team average.

Francois Letexier has the most Lens games in this sample (16).

Updated Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 a.m.·2021-2026 (2022-04-03 – 2026-04-17)

Lens record: 78-30-35 (54.5%)

Qualified refs in this table account for 95 of 143 team matches (66%) in this sample. Table lists refs with 8+ games.

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Jerome Brisard
+12.2 pts vs team+2.0
Bastien Dechepy
+5.5 pts vs team-0.9
Jeremie Pignard
+5.5 pts vs team-2.1
Thomas Leonard
+1.1 pts vs team-0.8
Stephanie Frappart
+1.1 pts vs team+1.1
Benoit Bastien
-4.5 pts vs team+0.5
Willy Delajod
-12.8 pts vs team+1.7
Benoit Millot
-14.5 pts vs team+0.5
Francois Letexier
-23.2 pts vs team+1.9

Close-match proxy

How Lens compares in one-goal matches vs the full sample. Based on verified match results.

Close games (≤1 goal margin)

88 of 143 games match this window

Avg combined goals
Close-match avg
2.2
Season avg
2.6
Pressure impact
-0.4
Avg cards
Close-match avg
26.3
Season avg
25.4
Pressure impact
+0.9
Over rate
Close-match avg
40.9%
Season avg
51.0%
Pressure impact
-10.1 pp

Over benchmark: 2.6 combined goals · Seasons: 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 · 143 total games in sample

What am I looking at?

Individual refs: stats for one official across all Lens games they worked, even with different partners.
Team baseline: Lens went 78-30-35 (54.5%) across this sample. Ref win rates show how they compare to that team average.
Whistle differential: who gets called more. A positive number means opponents are whistled more often than Lens.

Scores, fouls, cards, and referee assignments from ESPN (1364 games, 132 with sportsbook totals). Referee coverage only where ESPN lists gameInfo.officials (2021-22 onward); games without referee names are excluded entirely. football-data.co.uk I1 CSVs lack a Referee column and are not used. Matrix: 372/518 ref×team pairs with 3+ games. 314 games skipped (no official listed).