Stevie Mallan

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 3–0 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 as a "contender for goal of the season". Mallan was subsequently presented with the PFA Scotland 'Goal of the Season' award for that effort. Mallan also 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. Later in January, Mallan signed a three-year contract extension with St Mirren. He scored a late winning goal against Motherwell on 16 May, but St Mirren had already been relegated to the Championship. 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…

In March 2017, he made his debut for the Scotland under-21 side in a friendly against Estonia.

As of 31 March 2023

Stevie is the latest of four generations of Mallan men to play football at a high level. 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 1955 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 mainly for Queen of the South in the Nineties, as well as a few other Scottish League clubs. After moving to the Juniors in his mid Thirties, he played for several more years and appeared in the 2011 Scottish Junior Cup Final at the age of 44.