Major League Soccer referees
United States
Major League Soccer referees 2026
Every referee's cards, penalties and fouls per game this season, strictest first. Cards count both teams, second yellows included. The league averages 4.29 cards and 0.29 penalties a match over 498 matches.
Strictest
Joshua Encarnación
6.33 cards a game
Most lenient
Jair Marrufo
2.25 cards a game
Appointed
0
referees named for the next two weeks
| Referee | Next match | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Joshua Encarnación | 3 | 6.33 | 17 | 2 | 0.00 | 29.7 | – |
| Chris Penso | 16 | 5.81 | 90 | 3 | 0.31 | 22.6 | – |
| Ramy Touchan | 12 | 5.50 | 62 | 4 | 0.17 | 27.3 | – |
| Víctor Rivas | 22 | 5.27 | 108 | 8 | 0.41 | 23.1 | – |
| Alexis Da Silva | 20 | 5.10 | 98 | 4 | 0.25 | 25.5 | – |
| Guido Gonzalez | 15 | 5.07 | 69 | 7 | 0.33 | 24.0 | – |
| Malik Badawi | 16 | 4.88 | 77 | 1 | 0.25 | 23.1 | – |
| Fotis Bazakos | 19 | 4.79 | 89 | 2 | 0.21 | 25.0 | – |
| Rosendo Mendoza | 19 | 4.68 | 86 | 3 | 0.42 | 24.5 | – |
| Jon Freemon | 20 | 4.65 | 89 | 4 | 0.25 | 24.1 | – |
| Joe Dickerson | 19 | 4.63 | 83 | 5 | 0.37 | 22.3 | – |
| Ricardo Montero | 15 | 4.60 | 64 | 5 | 0.40 | 24.0 | – |
| Ricardo Fierro | 13 | 4.54 | 55 | 4 | 0.31 | 27.9 | – |
| Drew Fischer | 22 | 4.41 | 93 | 4 | 0.23 | 24.3 | – |
| Ismail Elfath | 17 | 4.29 | 69 | 4 | 0.35 | 21.9 | – |
| Tori Penso | 19 | 4.21 | 79 | 1 | 0.05 | 19.6 | – |
| Elijio Arreguin | 15 | 4.20 | 61 | 2 | 0.27 | 28.8 | – |
| Armando Villarreal | 17 | 4.12 | 70 | 0 | 0.18 | 24.2 | – |
| Timothy Ford | 16 | 3.94 | 60 | 3 | 0.31 | 22.9 | – |
| Sergii Demianchuk | 15 | 3.87 | 58 | 0 | 0.60 | 23.7 | – |
| Filip Dujic | 22 | 3.86 | 81 | 4 | 0.23 | 25.3 | – |
| Rubiel Vazquez | 22 | 3.86 | 80 | 5 | 0.36 | 21.6 | – |
| Sergii Boiko | 16 | 3.81 | 59 | 2 | 0.50 | 19.9 | – |
| Pierre Luce Lauziere | 19 | 3.74 | 70 | 1 | 0.37 | 24.8 | – |
| Lukasz Szpala | 3 | 3.67 | 10 | 1 | 0.00 | 21.7 | – |
| Lorenzo Hernandez | 17 | 3.47 | 57 | 2 | 0.18 | 22.0 | – |
| Nabil Bensalah | 6 | 3.33 | 19 | 1 | 0.00 | 24.2 | – |
| Brandon Stevis | 3 | 3.33 | 9 | 1 | 0.33 | 32.3 | – |
| Allen Chapman | 23 | 3.30 | 72 | 4 | 0.35 | 18.0 | – |
| Marcos de Oliveira | 16 | 3.13 | 50 | 0 | 0.31 | 26.2 | – |
| Jair Marrufo | 12 | 2.25 | 26 | 1 | 0.17 | 18.8 | – |
| Katja Koroleva | 1 | 7.00 | 7 | 0 | 0.00 | 25.0 | – |
| Michael Venne | 2 | 5.50 | 11 | 0 | 0.00 | 29.0 | – |
| Muhammad Kaleia | 1 | 5.00 | 5 | 0 | 0.00 | 20.0 | – |
| Mathew Corrigan | 1 | 5.00 | 5 | 0 | 0.00 | 24.0 | – |
| Abdou Ndiaye | 1 | 4.00 | 4 | 0 | 0.00 | 29.0 | – |
| Matthew Thompson | 1 | 3.00 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 23.0 | – |
| Rodrigo Albuquerque | 1 | 3.00 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 21.0 | – |
| Ismir Pekmic | 1 | 1.00 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 15.0 | – |
| League average | 498 | 4.29 | 4.11 | 0.18 | 0.29 | 23.5 |
Bars compare cards per game with the league average (the middle tick): red is stricter, green more lenient. Tap a referee for their card-line form, recent matches and the card odds on their next match. Callouts need 3+ matches.