

Match Reports
Match 15: Austin Aztex 1-2 Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett |Bottom Line: Johan Claesson scored an improbable goal in stoppage time to lift the Portland Timbers to a 2-1 victory over the Austin Aztex in the first ever meeting between the two teams. Just seconds after Austin’s Gifton Noel-Williams leveled the score with a header three minutes deep into stoppage time, Claesson was able [...]
US Open Cup: Portland Timbers 1-2 Seattle Sounders
By: Bob Kellett |Bottom Line: First half goals by Roger Levesque and Stephen King lifted the Seattle Sounders to a 2-1 victory over the Portland Timbers in a US Open Cup match played in front of 16,382 at PGE Park. Levesque, a former member of the USL Sounders, stunned the packed stadium with a goal in [...]
Match 13: Portland Timbers 4-0 Montreal Impact
By: Bob Kellett |The Bottom Line: Mandjou Keita scored a pair of goals and George Josten tallied a pair of assists to lift the Portland Timbers to a 4-0 victory over the Montreal Impact in front of 7,783 at PGE Park on a gorgeous summer Sunday afternoon. Keita started the scoring in the 9th minute when headed [...]
US Open Cup: Portland Timbers defeat Sonoma County Sol; Advance to Face Seattle
By: Bob Kellett |So yeah, taking the US Open Cup a little more seriously might not have been a bad move after all.
A year after fielding a largely reserve squad that proceeded to be bounced from the competition by the amateur side Hollywood United, the Portland Timbers have advanced to the third round of the US [...]
Portland Timbers U23s 4-0 Spokane Spiders
By: Bob Kellett |Bottom Line: On the same day in which they were added to the roster, Warren Ukah and Miguel Guante helped led the Portland Timbers U23s to a convincing 4-0 over the Spokane Spiders in front of 363 at PGE Park. Ukah opened the scoring in the 13th minute after he took a cross [...]
Match 5: Portland Timbers 2-1 Rochester Rhinos
By: Bob Kellett |The Bottom Line: For the second straight game at PGE Park, Brian Farber and Ryan Pore scored to lift the Portland Timbers to victory. After teaming up to defeat Carolina two weeks ago, the Timbers midfielders provided the goals to top the Rochester Rhinos (3-2-1, 10pts) on Thursday evening in front of 7,556 in [...]
Match 4: Cleveland City Stars 0-0 Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett |Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers traveled to Cleveland to face the expansion City Stars for the first time and came away with a 0-0 draw in front of 1,107 at Middlefield Cheese Stadium. In a game in which the Timbers controlled the run of play for 90 minutes, Portland (1-1-2, 5pts) was unable to [...]
Match 3: Portland Timbers 2-0 Carolina RailHawks
By: Bob Kellett |Bottom Line: Ryan Pore set up a goal and scored one of his own to lift the Portland Timbers to a 2-0 victory over the Carolina RailHawks in front of 6,742 at PGE Park. Pore put the Timbers (1-1-1, 4pts) in the lead in the 5th minute when he delivered a cross in the [...]
Match 2: Portland Timbers 0-0 Carolina RailHawks
By: Bob Kellett |Bottom Line:For the third straight year the Carolina RailHawks and the Portland Timbers played to a scoreless draw at PGE Park. In front of 8,549 fans at their 2009 home opener (0-1-1, 1pts), the Timbers outshot the RailHawks (3-0-1, 10pts) 7-2 in the second half but failed to find the goal for the second [...]
Match 1: Vancouver Whitecaps 1-0 Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett |Bottom Line: Martin Nash scored on a full volley in the 63rd minute to lift the Vancouver Whitecaps to a 1-0 victory over the Portland Timbers in front of 5,102 at Swangard Stadium. After a scoreless first half in which both teams had a couple of good scoring chances, the game opened up [...]






