| Alan Stevens | |
| Fullname: | Alan Keith Stevens |
| Nickname: | Ginty |
| Birth Date: | 5 August 1923 |
| Birth Place: | Coogee, New South Wales[1] |
| Height: | 183 cm |
| Weight: | 80 kg |
| Club1: | Ainslie |
| Years1: | 1940–1941 |
| Club2: | Eastlake-Manuka |
| Years2: | 1942–1944 |
| Club3: | Eastlake |
| Years3: | 1945 |
| Club4: | Ainslie |
| Years4: | 1946–1947 |
| Club5: | St Kilda |
| Years5: | 1948–1950 |
| Games Goals5: | 22 (1) |
| Club6: | Ainslie |
| Years6: | 1952–1953 |
| Statsend: | 1953 |
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Alan Keith Stevens (5 August 1923 – 2 November 2010)[2] was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also had a noted career in the Canberra Australian National Football League, with Ainslie, Eastlake-Manuka and Eastlake.
Stevens, a defender, spent his first two years of senior football with Canberra club Ainslie.[3] [4]
He won Ainslie's best and fairest award and finished third in voting for the Mulrooney Medal in 1941, his second season.[4] [5]
From 1942 to 1944, Stevens played for the merged Eastlake-Manuka combination.[6] [7]
The merger ended in 1945 and Stevens played for Eastlake that season.[8] He was named amongst Eastlake's best players in their one-point win over Navy in the 1945 grand final.[8]
Stevens returned to Ainslie in 1946, as club captain.[9] He had a triumphant return, ending the season with a premiership, Mulrooney Medal and another Ainslie best and fairest.[4] [10] The following year he was given the additional responsibility of being playing coach and steered Ainslie to another premiership.[4] [11] Stevens, who captained Canberra at the 1947 Hobart Carnival, also won a third club best and fairest award.[3] [4]
Stevens played for St Kilda from 1948 to 1950, during which time he amassed 22 league appearances.[12]
While in Victoria he was a state representative, in 1948.[3]
Stevens finished his career back at Ainslie, where he was playing coach for two more seasons, after moving back to Canberra late in 1951.[4] [13]
He led Ainslie to another premiership in 1952, when they were undefeated all year.[14]