Kevin Mac Allister
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.jpg) Mac Allister with Union SG in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 7 November 1997 | ||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Union SG | ||
| Number | 5 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Argentinos Juniors | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2023 | Argentinos Juniors | 136 | (12) |
| 2019 | → Boca Juniors (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2023– | Union SG | 90 | (4) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2025– | Argentina | 1 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20:13, 14 March 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 18:31, 14 November 2025 (UTC) | |||
Kevin Mac Allister (born 7 November 1997) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or full-back for Belgian Pro League club Union SG and the Argentina national team.
Early career
The Mac Allister brothers started their career with Argentinos Juniors.[1] He made his first team debut for Argentinos on 27 February 2016 in a 4–1 defeat against Estudiantes.[2][3] Mac Allister made more appearances followed in his debut season of 2016.[citation needed] The was relegated in that season and he subsequently made sixteen appearances in Primera B Nacional as Argentinos won the title.[2] Mac Allister scored his first senior goal in March 2018 against Gimnasia y Esgrima.[2][better source needed] Mac Allister joined Boca Juniors on loan in January 2019.[2][4]
Union SG
On 12 July 2023, Belgian club Union SG announced the signing of Mac Allister on a three-year contract, with an option of a further year.[5] Later that year, on 5 October, he shared the pitch with his young brother Alexis after the latter came on as a substitute in a Europa League group stage match against Liverpool.[6]
On 25 May 2025, Mac Allister was a member of the Union SG squad that achieved the 2024–25 Belgian Pro League, ending a 90-year title drought.[7] Two months later, on 5 July, he extended his contract with the club until 2027.[8]
International career
Mac Allister received a call-up to the Argentina U20 squad for the 2017 South American Youth Football Championship in Ecuador.[9] However, he missed the tournament due to injury.[2][9]
In November 2025, Mac Allister received his first call-up to the senior Argentina national team for a friendly match against Angola.[10] He debuted in said tournament against the same opponent on 14 November.[11]
Personal life
Mac Allister is of Irish descent, with his ancestry traced back to Donabate, County Dublin.[12][user-generated source] He has two brothers, Alexis who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Argentina national team with whom he won the 2022 FIFA World Cup and Francis who plays as a midfielder for Deportes La Serena of the Liga de Primera.[13] They are the sons of Carlos Mac Allister and nephews of Patricio Mac Allister.[13] His cousin, Luciano Guaycochea is also a professional footballer.[14]
As of 2024, Mac Allister was engaged to marry Tatiana Batista, daughter of former footballer and coach Fernando Batista.[15] The couple married on 14 June 2025, and announced in the same month they were expecting their first child together.[16]
Mac Allister is named after the main protagonist of the American Christmas family comedy film Home Alone, a fact that he did not find out until he was eighteen years old.[17]