| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stephen Patrick Mallan[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1967-08-30)30 August 1967 (age 58) | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1989 | Kirkintilloch Rob Roy | ||
| 1989–1993 | Clyde | 70 | (13) |
| 1993–2000 | Queen of the South | 232 | (82) |
| 2000–2002 | Arbroath | 52 | (16) |
| 2001 | →Forfar Athletic (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | Stirling Albion | 31 | (6) |
| 2003 | Stenhousemuir | 6 | (1) |
| 2003–2004 | Dumbarton | 5 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Glenafton Athletic | ||
| 2005–2011 | Auchinleck Talbot | ||
| 2011 | St Anthony's | ||
| Total | 399 | (118) | |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Stephen Mallan (born 30 August 1967) is a Scottish formerfootballer who played as astriker, mainly forQueen of the South. Mallan's other clubs includedClyde,Arbroath,Stirling Albion,Stenhousemuir andDumbarton.
Born inGlasgow, Mallan did not play for any club in his teenage years and started his career inScottish Junior football withKirkintilloch Rob Roy at the age of 20, before joining the senior ranks withClyde for the start of the1989–90 season.[2]
Mallan then joinedDumfries clubQueen of the South at the start of the1993–94 season. In his time at theDoonhamers Mallan scored 94 goals and is the eighth highest goalscorer in the club's history.[3] This tally includes 82 league goals in his 232 league appearances.[4] Mallan played in the1997–98 Challenge Cup Final atFir Park, when Queen of the South put in a spirited performance in a 1–0 defeat toFalkirk, who were playing in the division aboveQueens at that time.[5] Nicknamed 'Marvo', Mallan was a fans' favourite and cult-hero[6] and ended up playing seven seasons atPalmerston before being released byJohn Connolly in the summer of 2000.
Mallan then went on to play forArbroath,Stirling Albion (where he scored versusHeart of Midlothian in aScottish League Cup match),[7][8]Stenhousemuir andDumbarton.
Mallan then returned to Junior football, where he signed forGlenafton inNew Cumnock as a player-coach[2] and after one season moved to near-neighboursAuchinleck Talbot. In his first year playing for theBot and aged 39, Mallan scored in the 2006Scottish Junior Cup Final with a 30-yard header, after the opposingBathgate Thistle goalkeeper slipped trying to collect the ball.[9] Mallan also appeared from the substitutes' bench and set up the winning goal in the2009 Scottish Junior Cup Final,[10] and at the end of a six-year spell with Auchinleck Mallan again appeared as a substitute in the 2011 Scottish Junior Cup Final at 44 years old.[11] Mallan then went on to play forGlasgow clubSt Anthony's for a brief spell.[12]
More recently, Mallan has been coaching atSt Mirren'sYouth Academy.[7]
Stevie is the third of four generations of Mallans to play football at a high level. His grandfather,Jim or Jimmy was a defender withCeltic andSt Mirren and was selected for theScottish Football League XI with the Hoops in 1949[13] and played in the1955 Scottish League Cup Final with theBuddies.[14] Mallan's father, also named Jimmy, played Junior football as a striker and scored ahat-trick forJohnstone Burgh in the 1964 Scottish Junior Cup Final.[15][16] Mallan's sonStephen, who was born in 1996, debuted for St Mirren as a midfielder in November 2014[17] before moving to England to play forBarnsley[18] and back to Scotland withHibernian.[19]
