Malik Badawi🇺🇸

49 matches as referee, 2020–2026. Active.

Born: 2 June 1995
Birthplace: Fresno, California
Hometown: Fresno, California
Nationality: United States

See Malik Badawi’s appearances in other positions (4th official, VAR) →

Career

Matches: 49
Goals (per match): 144 (2.94)
Fouls (per match): 1161 (23.69)
Yellow cards (per match): 195 (3.98)
Red cards (per match): 7 (0.14)
Penalties (per match): 13 (0.27)

By season

Malik Badawi’s record by season, newest first.
Season	Matches	YC/M	RC	PEN	F/M

2026	8	5.00	1	2	24.38
2025	17	3.65	4	3	23.06
2024	12	4.42	1	4	23.75
2023	8	3.63	1	3	22.88
2022	1	2.00	0	0	26.00
2020	3	3.00	0	1	26.67
All seasons	49	3.98	7	13	23.69

Malik Badawi’s record by season — the home sides’ share of each figure, and how home sides fared.
Season	Matches	YC/M	RC	PEN	F/M	Record	PPG

2026	8	2.63	1	1	12.00	3–2–3	1.375
2025	17	1.71	2	1	11.94	8–6–3	1.765
2024	12	2.17	0	2	12.67	6–3–3	1.750
2023	8	2.25	1	2	11.75	6–1–1	2.375
2022	1	0.00	0	0	11.00	1–0–0	3.000
2020	3	1.67	0	0	14.00	0–2–1	0.667
All seasons	49	2.02	4	6	12.20	24–14–11	1.755

Malik Badawi’s record by season — the away sides’ share of each figure, and how away sides fared.
Season	Matches	YC/M	RC	PEN	F/M	Record	PPG

2026	8	2.38	0	1	12.38	3–2–3	1.375
2025	17	1.94	2	2	11.12	3–6–8	0.882
2024	12	2.25	1	2	11.08	3–3–6	1.000
2023	8	1.38	0	1	11.13	1–1–6	0.500
2022	1	2.00	0	0	15.00	0–0–1	0.000
2020	3	1.33	0	1	12.67	1–2–0	1.667
All seasons	49	1.96	3	7	11.49	11–14–24	0.959

Card reasons

Yellow cards issued, by reason.
Reason	Yellow cards
Unsporting behaviour	157
Dissent	26
Delaying the restart	8
Failing to respect distance	3
Entering the referee review area	1
Total	195

Red cards issued, by reason.
Reason	Red cards
Second caution	6
Denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity (foul)	1
Total	7

Yellow card reasons are unofficial, and some of them may be incorrect. “???” means we are missing a reason for a card.

Cards by minute

Cards issued, by minute band.
Minute	Cards	Share
1–15	7
16–30	20
31–45 (incl. added time)	33
46–60	31
61–75	41
76–90 (incl. added time)	74
Extra time	0
Shootout	2

By club

Malik Badawi’s record by club.
Club	Matches	GF	GA	YC	Opp YC	RC	Opp RC	PEN	Opp PEN

Atlanta United FC	1 matches against Atlanta United FC	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Austin FC	3 matches against Austin FC	1	8	3	2	0	0	0	0
CF Montréal	1 matches against CF Montréal	0	3	1	3	0	0	1	0
Charlotte FC	2 matches against Charlotte FC	5	0	5	4	0	0	2	0
Chicago Fire FC	8 matches against Chicago Fire FC	18	12	16	16	0	0	3	2
Colorado Rapids	6 matches against Colorado Rapids	9	9	14	12	1	0	2	0
Columbus Crew	1 matches against Columbus Crew	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
D.C. United	5 matches against D.C. United	3	9	14	9	2	0	0	1
FC Cincinnati	3 matches against FC Cincinnati	6	6	6	7	0	1	1	1
FC Dallas	2 matches against FC Dallas	4	3	4	2	0	0	0	0
Houston Dynamo FC	2 matches against Houston Dynamo FC	3	4	3	4	0	1	0	2
Inter Miami CF	1 matches against Inter Miami CF	1	4	1	2	0	0	0	0
LA Galaxy	3 matches against LA Galaxy	4	8	7	5	2	0	0	0
Minnesota United FC	4 matches against Minnesota United FC	4	1	9	5	0	0	0	0
Nashville SC	1 matches against Nashville SC	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
New England Revolution	4 matches against New England Revolution	6	5	6	7	0	0	0	0
New York City FC	3 matches against New York City FC	6	3	6	5	0	0	0	1
Orlando City SC	2 matches against Orlando City SC	2	1	1	5	0	0	0	0
Philadelphia Union	4 matches against Philadelphia Union	10	6	6	11	0	0	0	0
Portland Timbers	3 matches against Portland Timbers	2	5	6	9	0	0	0	0
Real Salt Lake	7 matches against Real Salt Lake	11	12	20	17	0	1	1	2
Red Bull New York	4 matches against Red Bull New York	5	4	10	11	1	2	1	0
Saint Louis CITY SC	3 matches against Saint Louis CITY SC	6	3	5	8	0	1	0	0
San Diego FC	3 matches against San Diego FC	9	0	8	4	0	0	0	0
San Jose Earthquakes	6 matches against San Jose Earthquakes	6	8	17	9	1	1	0	1
Seattle Sounders FC	6 matches against Seattle Sounders FC	9	10	9	15	0	0	1	0
Sporting Kansas City	2 matches against Sporting Kansas City	3	1	5	5	0	0	0	0
Toronto FC	2 matches against Toronto FC	0	3	3	2	0	0	0	2
Vancouver Whitecaps FC	6 matches against Vancouver Whitecaps FC	7	12	6	16	0	0	1	1

Most frequent crewmates

Crewmate position: All On field AR AR1 AR2 4th official VOR VAR AVAR

Malik Badawi’s most frequent crewmates, AR2.
Official	Positions	Matches
Eduardo Jeff	AR2 (4) with Eduardo Jeff	4 matches with Eduardo Jeff
Kali Smith	AR2 (4) with Kali Smith	4 matches with Kali Smith
Meghan Mullen	AR2 (4) with Meghan Mullen	4 matches with Meghan Mullen
Chris Elliott	AR2 (3) with Chris Elliott	3 matches with Chris Elliott
Gianni Facchini	AR2 (3) with Gianni Facchini	3 matches with Gianni Facchini
Adam Garner	AR2 (2) with Adam Garner	2 matches with Adam Garner
Brian Dunn	AR2 (2) with Brian Dunn	2 matches with Brian Dunn
Felisha Mariscal	AR2 (2) with Felisha Mariscal	2 matches with Felisha Mariscal
Ian McKay	AR2 (2) with Ian McKay	2 matches with Ian McKay
Jeffrey Swartzel	AR2 (2) with Jeffrey Swartzel	2 matches with Jeffrey Swartzel
Kevin Klinger	AR2 (2) with Kevin Klinger	2 matches with Kevin Klinger
Peter Balciunas	AR2 (2) with Peter Balciunas	2 matches with Peter Balciunas
Walter Heatherly	AR2 (2) with Walter Heatherly	2 matches with Walter Heatherly
Ben Pilgrim	AR2 (1) with Ben Pilgrim	1 matches with Ben Pilgrim
Brooke Mayo	AR2 (1) with Brooke Mayo	1 matches with Brooke Mayo
Chris Wattam	AR2 (1) with Chris Wattam	1 matches with Chris Wattam
Diego Blas	AR2 (1) with Diego Blas	1 matches with Diego Blas
Eric Weisbrod	AR2 (1) with Eric Weisbrod	1 matches with Eric Weisbrod
Gérard-Kader Lebuis	AR2 (1) with Gérard-Kader Lebuis	1 matches with Gérard-Kader Lebuis
Jeffrey Greeson	AR2 (1) with Jeffrey Greeson	1 matches with Jeffrey Greeson
Kevin Lock	AR2 (1) with Kevin Lock	1 matches with Kevin Lock
Matthew Nelson	AR2 (1) with Matthew Nelson	1 matches with Matthew Nelson
Nicholas Balcer	AR2 (1) with Nicholas Balcer	1 matches with Nicholas Balcer
Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho	AR2 (1) with Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho	1 matches with Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho
Ryan Graves	AR2 (1) with Ryan Graves	1 matches with Ryan Graves

Match log

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Malik Badawi’s match log, newest first.
Date	Round	Home	Score	Away	Fouls	YC	RC	PEN
2026-08-08	Reg	NE	—	HOU
2026-07-22	Reg	LA	1–3	STL	28	4+1	1	0
2026-05-16	Reg	RSL	2–1	COL	27	5	0	0
2026-05-13	Reg	SD	5–0	ATX	16	1	0	0
2026-05-09	Reg	SJ	1–1	VAN	29	5	0	0
2026-04-18	Reg	CIN	3–3	CHI	20	7	0	2
2026-04-04	Reg	LA	1–2	MIN	25	5	0	0
2026-03-07	Reg	SKC	0–1	SD	23	7	0	0
2026-02-22	Reg	SEA	2–0	COL	27	6	0	0
2025-09-27	Reg	SEA	2–2	VAN	27	3	0	0
2025-09-20	Reg	LA	2–3	CIN	15	3+1	1	0
2025-08-16	Reg	MIN	1–0	SEA	18	3	0	0
2025-08-09	Reg	DAL	2–0	POR	23	3	0	0
2025-07-26	Reg	PHI	3–1	COL	23	4	0	0
2025-07-05	Reg	SJ	1–1	NYRB	22	5+2	2	0
2025-06-08	Reg	POR	2–1	STL	20	5	0	0
2025-05-24	Reg	DC	0–2	NYRB	23	6	0	0
2025-05-14	Reg	ATX	1–1	ATL	20	1	0	0
2025-05-10	Reg	PHI	2–2	CLB	23	2	0	0
2025-05-03	Reg	VAN	2–1	RSL	25	4	0	2
2025-04-19	Reg	HOU	2–2	COL	24	4+1	1	1
2025-04-12	Reg	TOR	0–0	MIN	26	3	0	0
2025-04-05	Reg	SD	3–0	SEA	32	4	0	0
2025-03-22	Reg	VAN	1–3	CHI	19	3	0	0
2025-03-15	Reg	NYC	2–1	NE	24	3	0	0

Includes at least one match with a substitution involving the named official. Appearances are credited by starting position; cards are credited to the official who issued them, so the two can differ.

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