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Matthew Nelson🇺🇸

Appearances in positions other than referee. Active.

Nationality
United States

Appearances — AR2

Show: All (290) AR (270) AR1 (116) AR2 (154) 4th official (2) AVAR (18)
Matches
154
Seasons
15
From
2012
To
2026
2026
5
2025
7
2024
17
2023
16
2022
9
2021
8
2020
13
2019
14
2018
10
2017
7
2016
9
2015
7
2014
14
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 22 33 44
Charlotte FC 6 9 9
Chicago Fire FC 12 11 15
Colorado Rapids 12 16 23
Columbus Crew 17 23 20
D.C. United 19 21 25
FC Cincinnati 7 11 14
FC Dallas 12 12 19
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 12 15 21
Real Salt Lake 12 20 8
Red Bull New York 17 20 13
Saint Louis CITY SC 2 1 3
San Jose Earthquakes 9 7 13
Seattle Sounders FC 8 10 8
Sporting Kansas City 15 21 18
Toronto FC 18 18 29
Vancouver Whitecaps FC 8 10 11

Most frequent crewmates

Crewmate position: All On field R AR1 4th official VOR VAR AVAR
Matthew Nelson’s most frequent crewmates as AR2, 4th official.
OfficialPositionsMatches
Mark Kadlecik 4th (7) 7
Robert Sibiga 4th (7) 7
Alejandro Mariscal 4th (5) 5
Guido Gonzales Jr 4th (5) 5
Filip Dujic 4th (4) 4
Fotis Bazakos 4th (4) 4
Marcos DeOliveira 4th (4) 4
Rosendo Mendoza 4th (4) 4
Silviu Petrescu 4th (4) 4
Ted Unkel 4th (4) 4
Victor Rivas 4th (4) 4
Adam Kilpatrick 4th (3) 3
Alan Kelly 4th (3) 3
Chris Penso 4th (3) 3
Dave Gantar 4th (3) 3
Jon Freemon 4th (3) 3
Nima Saghafi 4th (3) 3
Ramy Touchan 4th (3) 3
Sorin Stoica 4th (3) 3
Thomas Synder 4th (3) 3
Younes Marrakchi 4th (3) 3
Alyssa Pennington 4th (2) 2
Armando Villarreal 4th (2) 2
Baldomero Toledo 4th (2) 2
Brad Jensen 4th (2) 2

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
2024-10-29 KO CLB 0–1 NYRB Timothy Ford Logan Brown Matthew Nelson Fotis Bazakos Greg Dopka Joshua Patlak
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

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.

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.

This match had a mid-match referee substitution.

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