Full name Stephen Mallan Number 14 Current team St. Mirren | Playing position Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland Name Stevie Mallan | |
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Date of birth (1996-03-25) 25 March 1996 (age 19) | ||
Stevie Mallan (born 25 March 1996) is a Scottish footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Barnsley.
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St Mirren
Born in Glasgow, he was included in St Mirren's matchday squad for the first time on 18 October 2014, remaining on the substitutes' bench as they lost 0–1 at home against Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish Premiership. On 8 November, he was again unused as they lost by the same score against Partick Thistle, again at St Mirren Park. His debut came two weeks later as St Mirren lost 0–3 away to Hamilton Academical, starting and making way for James Marwood after 68 minutes.
Mallan scored his first goal on his fifth appearance, the team's second in a 3–1 away win against Dundee at Dens Park. BBC Sport described the goal, in which Mallan dispossessed an opponent in his own half, went on a run and shot from outside the penalty area, as "a contender for goal of the season". They also questioned whether he could ever score a better goal in the remainder of his career. With footage having received several million 'hits' online, on 4 May 2015 Mallan was awarded with the PFA Scotland 'Goal of the Season' award for the Dundee strike.
On 9 January 2015 Mallan won the SPFL Young Player of the Month award for December 2014. Eight days later he scored his second goal, the 87th-minute winner in a 2–1 victory at Ross County. It was announced on 24 January that Mallan had signed a three-year contract extension, tying him to the club until the summer of 2018. On 16 May, he scored an added-time winner in a 2–1 home victory against Motherwell, confining the opponents to the relegation play-offs.
On 25 August 2015, Mallan equalised with a 25-yard free kick in first-half added time in a Scottish League Cup second round game against Livingston, but his team lost 2–3 at home. He scored twice in a 4–0 win over Dunfermline Athletic on 10 October to send his team into the semi-finals of the 2015-16 Scottish Challenge Cup.
In October 2016 at Easter Road, he scored a "magnificent" free kick from 30 yards to help St Mirren eliminate Hibernian from the Challenge Cup.
Barnsley
On 18 May 2017 Mallan completed a transfer to EFL Championship side Barnsley for an undisclosed fee.
International career
In March 2017 he made his debut for the Scotland Under-21 side in a friendly against Estonia.
Personal life
Stevie is the latest of four generations of Mallan men to play football to a high standard. His great-grandfather Jim or Jimmy, a defender, played for Celtic and St Mirren, being selected for the Scottish Football League XI with the former and playing in the 1956 Scottish League Cup Final with the latter. His grandfather, also Jimmy, played Junior football as a striker, scoring a hat-trick for Johnstone Burgh in the 1964 Scottish Junior Cup final. His father Stevie, a striker born in 1967, played for several Scottish Football League clubs in the 1990s, and after moving to the Juniors in his mid-30s, played for several more years and appeared in the 2011 Scottish Junior Cup Final at the age of 44.