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Matthew Nelson🇺🇸

Appearances in positions other than referee. Active.

Nationality
United States

Appearances — AR2

Show: All (281) AR (262) AR1 (113) AR2 (149) 4th official (2) AVAR (17)
Matches
149
Seasons
15
From
2012
To
2026
2026
5
2025
7
2024
16
2023
16
2022
9
2021
8
2020
12
2019
14
2018
9
2017
7
2016
8
2015
7
2014
13
2013
12
2012
6

By club

Matthew Nelson’s record by club as AR2.
ClubMatches GFGA
Atlanta United FC 9 21 13
Austin FC 3 3 4
CD Chivas USA 2 1 4
CF Montréal 21 30 42
Charlotte FC 6 9 9
Chicago Fire FC 12 11 15
Colorado Rapids 12 16 23
Columbus Crew 16 23 19
D.C. United 19 21 25
FC Cincinnati 7 11 14
FC Dallas 10 9 17
Houston Dynamo FC 12 23 14
Inter Miami CF 2 5 2
LA Galaxy 6 15 8
Los Angeles FC 3 3 2
Minnesota United FC 4 5 9
Nashville SC 4 8 6
New England Revolution 21 36 22
New York City FC 12 14 15
Orlando City SC 5 6 10
Philadelphia Union 17 26 22
Portland Timbers 10 11 18
Real Salt Lake 12 20 8
Red Bull New York 16 19 13
Saint Louis CITY SC 2 1 3
San Jose Earthquakes 9 7 13
Seattle Sounders FC 8 10 8
Sporting Kansas City 14 19 15
Toronto FC 17 16 26
Vancouver Whitecaps FC 7 9 9

Most frequent crewmates

Crewmate position: All On field R AR1 4th official VOR VAR AVAR
Matthew Nelson’s most frequent crewmates as AR2.
OfficialPositionsMatches
Jorge Gonzalez R (7), 4th (2), VAR (11) 20
Alan Kelly R (11), 4th (3), VAR (2) 16
Armando Villarreal R (11), 4th (1), VAR (2) 14
Kevin Terry Jr 4th (2), VAR (12) 14
Adam Wienckowski AR1 (9), AVAR (1) 10
Brian Dunn AR1 (8), AVAR (2) 10
Corey Parker AR1 (10) 10
Craig Lowry AR1 (1), AVAR (9) 10
Drew Fischer R (6), 4th (1), VAR (3) 10
Fotis Bazakos R (5), 4th (3), VAR (2) 10
Guido Gonzales Jr R (5), 4th (5) 10
Jose Carlos Rivero R (1), 4th (1), VAR (8) 10
Mark Geiger R (10) 10
Ramy Touchan R (7), 4th (3) 10
Rosendo Mendoza R (5), 4th (4), VAR (1) 10
Rubiel Vazquez R (8), 4th (2) 10
Thomas Supple AVAR (10) 10
Corey Rockwell AR1 (8), AVAR (1) 9
Daniel Radford VAR (9) 9
Filip Dujic R (4), 4th (4), VAR (1) 9
Sorin Stoica R (2), 4th (3), VAR (4) 9
Chris Penso R (4), 4th (3), VAR (1) 8
Claudiu Badea AR1 (6), AVAR (2) 8
Jeff Muschik AR1 (2), AVAR (6) 8
Peter Balciunas AR1 (3), AVAR (5) 8

Match log

On the match index →
Matthew Nelson’s match log as AR2, newest first.
DateRound Home Score Away RAR1AR24thVARAVAR
2026-05-23 Reg DC 4–4 MTL Filip Dujic Jeremy Kieso Matthew Nelson Jon Freemon Jorge Gonzalez Craig Lowry
2026-05-16 Reg RBNY 1–1 NYC Victor Rivas Ian McKay Matthew Nelson Lorenzo Hernandez Filip Dujic TJ Zablocki
2026-05-02 Reg RSL 2–0 POR Rosendo Mendoza Brooke Mayo Matthew Nelson Cristian Campo Hernandez Jose Carlos Rivero Craig Lowry
2026-04-25 Reg MIN 0–1 LAFC Guido Gonzales Jr Gérard-Kader Lebuis Matthew Nelson Rosendo Mendoza Jorge Gonzalez Craig Lowry
2026-04-18 Reg CIN 3–3 CHI Malik Badawi Justin Howard Matthew Nelson Rosendo Mendoza Kevin Terry Jr TJ Zablocki
2025-09-20 Reg HOU 1–0 POR Allen Chapman Ian McKay Matthew Nelson John Matto Kevin Stott Mark Allatin
2025-09-13 Reg CIN 2–1 NSH Marcos DeOliveira Corey Parker Matthew Nelson Ricardo Montero Araya Kevin Stott Mark Allatin
2025-08-30 Reg NYRB 0–0 CLB Rubiel Vazquez Jose Da Silva Matthew Nelson Brad Jensen Kevin Terry Jr Brian Dunn
2025-08-09 Reg PHI 1–1 TOR Tori Penso Brooke Mayo Matthew Nelson Luis Arroyo Jorge Gonzalez TJ Zablocki
2025-07-26 Reg ATL 2–2 SEA Ramy Touchan Jeremy Hanson Matthew Nelson Alexis Da Silva Shawn Tehini Matthew Seem
2025-05-31 Reg MTL 0–3 NE Michael Venne Gérard-Kader Lebuis Matthew Nelson Guido Gonzales Jr Geoff Gamble Jason White
2025-05-17 Reg CLT 1–4 CHI Ismir Pekmic Justin Howard Matthew Nelson Alyssa Pennington Kevin Terry Jr Mike Kampmeinert
2024-10-19 Reg MTL 2–0 NYC Allen Chapman Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho Matthew Nelson Filip Dujic Edvin Jurisevic Craig Lowry
2024-09-28 Reg DC 2–2 CLB Rubiel Vazquez Jose Da Silva Matthew Nelson Joshua Encarnacion Geoff Gamble Jonathan Johnson
2024-09-07 Reg NYRB 1–1 SKC Ramy Touchan Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho Matthew Nelson Sergii Boiko Kevin Terry Jr TJ Zablocki
2024-08-24 Reg MTL 0–5 NE Ismir Pekmic Lyes Arfa Matthew Nelson Filip Dujic Younes Marrakchi Rene Parra
2024-07-20 Reg LA 3–2 POR Sergii Boiko Stefan Tanaka-Freundt Matthew Nelson Timothy Ford Jorge Gonzalez Mike Kampmeinert
2024-07-17 Reg MIA 3–1 TOR Jair Marrufo Cory Richardson Matthew Nelson Abdou Ndiaye Younes Marrakchi Thomas Supple
2024-07-06 Reg PHI 0–0 NYRB Filip Dujic Lyes Arfa Matthew Nelson Marcos DeOliveira Kevin Terry Jr Jozef Batko
2024-07-03 Reg NE 2–1 ATL Jair Marrufo Ian McKay Matthew Nelson Guido Gonzales Jr Daniel Radford Thomas Supple
2024-06-29 Reg SKC 2–0 ATX Filip Dujic Lyes Arfa Matthew Nelson Alexandra Billeter Jose Carlos Rivero Jozef Batko
2024-06-19 Reg LA 2–0 NYC Rubiel Vazquez Corey Rockwell Matthew Nelson Brandon Stevis Younes Marrakchi TJ Zablocki
2024-05-29 Reg PHI 0–0 TOR Rubiel Vazquez Andrew Bigelow Matthew Nelson Thomas Synder Daniel Radford Thomas Supple
2024-05-15 Reg ATX 1–0 HOU Filip Dujic Justin Howard Matthew Nelson Elton Garcia Edvin Jurisevic Kaili Terry
2024-05-04 Reg NSH 4–1 MTL Rosendo Mendoza Kevin Klinger Matthew Nelson Matthew Corrigan Michael Radchuk Jonathan Johnson

Positions are as each match started. A crew member the source never recorded shows as “???”; a dash means the position was not used in that match.

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