Kevin Hagan (born 11 August 1957) is an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player who represented

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at international level.

Career

His senior career began with

Napier City Rovers Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, competing in the Central League. Club history The team was founded in 1973 by the merger of Napier Rovers and Napier City. Napier City Rovers have won New Zealand's premier ...

and was followed by stints at Auckland clubs

Manurewa Manurewa is a suburb in South Auckland, New Zealand, located south of Manukau, Manukau Central, and southeast of the Auckland City Centre. It is home to the Auckland Botanic Gardens, which receives over a million visitors a year. Manurewa h ...

and

North Shore United North Shore United Association Football Club is an amateur football club based in the North Shore, Auckland. They compete in the NRFL Championship, after being relegated in 2022. Their home ground is Allen Hill Stadium, which is located in the ...

in the New Zealand

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, before he moved to Australia to join

St George Saints St George FC, commonly called Saints or Budapest, is a semi-professional Australian soccer club based in the St George district in the south of Sydney. The club was founded by Hungarian immigrants in 1957 as Budapest Club and by 1965 was renam ...

in the

National Soccer League The National Soccer League (NSL) was the top-level soccer league in Australia, run by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association. The NSL, the A-League's predecessor, spanned 28 seasons from its inception in 1977 until its ...

. He later played for

APIA Leichhardt APIA Leichhardt Football Club, also known simply as APIA (Associazione Poli-sportiva Italo Australiana), is a semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Leichhardt, New South Wales, Leichhardt in Sydney, Australia. The club was forme ...

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and

Wollongong Wolves Wollongong Wolves Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW, the second-tier of soccer in Austral ...

. Hagan scored on his full

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debut, a 5–0 win over

Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...

on 3 June 1985 and ended his international playing career with 11 A-international caps and 5 goals to his credit, scoring 4 in his final appearance, in a 12–0 win over

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...

on 13 November 1987.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hagan, Kevin 1957 births Living people New Zealand men's association footballers New Zealand men's international footballers National Soccer League (Australia) players Napier City Rovers FC players Manurewa AFC players APIA Leichhardt FC players Sydney Olympic FC players Wollongong Wolves FC players St George FC players Men's association football forwards 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen