As a rule, a player or team official sent off by the referee is automatically suspended for the next match in a UEFA women's club competition (i.e. UEFA Women's Champions League or UEFA Women's Europa Cup). In the event of a serious offence, the UEFA disciplinary bodies are entitled to augment this punishment, including by extending it to other competitions.
In case of repeated cautions:
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before the league phase of the UEFA Women’s Champions League or the round of 16 of the UEFA Women’s Europa Cup, players and team officials are suspended for the next competition match after three cautions that did not result in a red card. Exceptionally, after the completion of every two rounds in a UEFA women’s club competition (i.e. UEFA Women’s Champions League and/or UEFA Women’s Europa Cup) in which a player was registered on a club's list and eligible to play, the number of cautions that player received that did not result in a repeated caution suspension is reduced by one;
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as from the round of 16, players and team officials are suspended for the next competition match after three cautions that did not result in a red card, as well as after any subsequent odd-numbered caution (i.e. fifth, seventh, etc.).
Single yellow cards and pending suspensions are always carried forward to the next relevant round of any UEFA women's club competition (i.e. UEFA Women's Champions League and UEFA Women's Europa Cup), except in the cases described in Paragraph 56.04 below.
Exceptionally, all yellow cards and pending yellow-card suspensions expire on completion of the second qualifying round. They are not carried forward to the round of 16. In addition, all yellow cards expire on completion of the semi-finals. They are not carried forward to the final.
Cautions and pending yellow-card suspensions from the UEFA Women's Champions League or the UEFA Women's Europa Cup expire at the end of the season.