Stephen Mallan (born 30 August 1967) is a Scottish former

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who played as a striker, mainly for Queen of the South. Mallan's other clubs included

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, Arbroath,

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, Stenhousemuir and

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Playing career

Born in

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, Mallan did not play for any club in his teenage years and started his career in Scottish Junior football with

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at the age of 20, before joining the senior ranks with

for the start of the 1989–90 season. Mallan then joined Dumfries club Queen of the South at the start of the 1993–94 season. In his time at the ''Doonhamers'' Mallan scored 94 goals and is the eighth highest goalscorer in the club's history. This tally includes 82 league goals in his 232 league appearances. Mallan played in the 1997–98 Challenge Cup Final at

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, when Queen of the South put in a spirited performance in a 1–0 defeat to Falkirk, who were playing in the division above ''Queens'' at that time. Nicknamed 'Marvo', Mallan was a fans' favourite and cult-hero and ended up playing seven seasons at

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before being released by John Connolly in the summer of 2000. Mallan then went on to play for Arbroath,

(where he scored versus Heart of Midlothian in a

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match), Stenhousemuir and

. Mallan then returned to Junior football, where he signed for Glenafton in

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as a player-coach and after one season moved to near-neighbours Auchinleck Talbot. In his first year playing for the ''Bot'' and aged 39, Mallan scored in the 2006

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Final with a 30-yard header, after the opposing

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goalkeeper slipped trying to collect the ball. Mallan also appeared from the substitutes' bench and set up the winning goal in the 2009 Scottish Junior Cup Final, 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. Mallan then went on to play for

club St Anthony's for a brief spell. More recently, Mallan has been coaching at St Mirren's

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Personal life

Stevie is the third of four generations of Mallans to play football at a high level. His grandfather, Jim or Jimmy was a defender with

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and St Mirren and was selected for the

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with the '' Hoops'' in 1949 and played in the 1955 Scottish League Cup Final with the ''Buddies''. Mallan's father, also named Jimmy, played Junior football as a striker and scored a

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for

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in the 1964 Scottish Junior Cup Final. Mallan's son

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, who was born in 1996, debuted for St Mirren as a midfielder in November 2014 before moving to England to play for Barnsley and back to Scotland with Hibernian.Stevie Mallan: Hibs sign midfielder from Barnsley on four-year deal
BBC Sport, 6 June 2018

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mallan, Stevie 1967 births Living people Stevie Men's association football forwards Scottish footballers Kirkintilloch Rob Roy F.C. players Clyde F.C. players Queen of the South F.C. players Arbroath F.C. players Forfar Athletic F.C. players Stirling Albion F.C. players Stenhousemuir F.C. players Dumbarton F.C. players Glenafton Athletic F.C. players Auchinleck Talbot F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scottish Junior Football Association players St Mirren F.C. non-playing staff Footballers from Glasgow