Matthew David Edwards (born 15 June 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. He made 68 Football League appearances playing for Reading and Brighton & Hove Albion. He was on the books of Tottenham Hotspur without playing first-team football, appeared once for Peterborough United in the Associate Members' Cup, and played non-league football for clubs including Kettering Town, where he missed the whole 1994–95 Football Conference season through injury, Walton & Hersham (initially on loan), Enfield, Carshalton Athletic, Sutton United, Molesey, Yeading, Bognor Regis Town and Egham Town.