Allando Matheson (born February 29, 1992) is a Jamaican-Canadian

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playing with

Malvern City FC Malvern City FC is a football (soccer) club in Kooyong, Victoria. The club was established in 1976. They play their home games at Sir Zelman Cowen Park opposite Kooyong Tennis Club. First Team Squad As of 6 September 2018 ...

in the

Victorian State League Division 1 State League 1 is a semi-professional association football league in Victoria, Australia. Sitting at level 4 of the Victorian league system, below the three NPL Victoria divisions, it forms part of the fifth tier of the overall Australian lea ...

Early career

Matheson began playing at the youth level with North Scarborough, and eventually in 2008 joined the

Toronto FC Academy Toronto FC Academy, also known as TFC Academy, is the youth academy and development system of Canadian Major League Soccer club Toronto FC. The academy has divisions from U14 to U19 and includes over 110 young players. The senior academy team is ...

. He began playing in the Reserve Division of the Canadian Soccer League with the TFC Academy U16 team. In 2009, he was promoted to the top U18 Academy team in the main Canadian Soccer League division, where he finished as the club's top goalscorer with seven goals.

Senior and college career

In 2010, he was selected by

Toronto FC Toronto Football Club (commonly known as Toronto FC or TFC) is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Toronto. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its home matches at BM ...

to feature in the

2010 Canadian Championship The 2010 Canadian Championship (officially the Nutrilite Canadian Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a soccer tournament hosted and organized by the Canadian Soccer Association that took place in the cities of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouv ...

against the

Vancouver Whitecaps Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club is a Canadian professional soccer team based in Vancouver. They compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member club of the league's Western Conference. The MLS iteration of the club was established on Marc ...

. He featured as a starter in the match against Vancouver on June 2, 2019, where Toronto drew the match in order to claim the

Canadian Championship The Canadian Championship (french: Championnat canadien) is an annual soccer tournament contested by premier Canadian professional teams. The winner is awarded the Voyageurs Cup and Canada's berth in the CONCACAF Champions League. It is contes ...

. In 2011, he decided to play

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with the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...

, where he played for four seasons. In 2015, he played abroad in the

National Premier League The National Premier League, also known for sponsorship purposes as the Red Stripe Premier League, is sanctioned by the Jamaican Football Federation as the top division for men's association football in Jamaica. Contested between 12 clubs, it ...

with

Harbour View F.C. Harbour View Football Club is a Jamaican football club based in Kingston that currently plays in the top flight Jamaica National Premier League. Harbour View is nicknamed the ''Stars of the East'' or ''Easters'' and play their home games at H ...

After a season abroad he returned home to play in

League1 Ontario League1 Ontario (L1O) is a semi-professional men's soccer league in Ontario, Canada. The league began play in 2014 and is sanctioned by the Canadian Soccer Association and the Ontario Soccer Association as a pro-am league in the Canadian ...

with

Master's Futbol Master's Futbol Academy, commonly known as Master's FA, is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario. The club was founded in 2009 as a soccer academy and added its team in the semi-professional League1 On ...

. In 2017, he signed with Casey Comets FC playing abroad for the second time in the

for two seasons in Australia. In 2019, he signed with

Career statistics

Honours

Toronto FC

(1):

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Matheson, Allando 1992 births Living people Men's association football forwards Canadian men's soccer players Canadian expatriate men's soccer players Canadian people of Jamaican descent Toronto FC players Harbour View F.C. players Canadian Soccer League (1998–present) players National Premier League players Footballers from Kingston, Jamaica Master's FA players