Kevin Austin
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kevin Levi Austin | ||
| Date of birth | 12 February 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Hackney, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–1993 | Saffron Walden Town | 8 | (0) |
| 1993–1996 | Leyton Orient | 109 | (3) |
| 1996–1999 | Lincoln City | 128 | (2) |
| 1999–2001 | Barnsley | 3 | (0) |
| 2000–2000 | → Brentford (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | Cambridge United | 6 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | Kettering Town | 3 | (0) |
| 2002–2004 | Bristol Rovers | 56 | (0) |
| 2004–2008 | Swansea City | 117 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 | Chesterfield | 54 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Darlington | 12 | (0) |
| 2011 | → Boston United (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Boston United | 25 | (0) |
| Total | 538 | (5) | |
| National team | |||
| 2000–20?? | Trinidad & Tobago | 7 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Kevin Levi Austin (born 12 February 1973 in Hackney, London, UK) is an English born Trinidadian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Austin began his career at Saffron Walden Town, before moving in August 1993 on a free transfer to Leyton Orient, for whom he made 126 first-team appearances.
He moved to Lincoln City in July 1996 for a fee of £30,000, making 146 appearances. A firm favourite during his time at Sincil Bank, Kevin was voted number 56 in Lincoln's 100 league legends in June 2007.
Austin moved to Barnsley in July 1999 on a Bosman free transfer but, in only his fifth match for Barnsley and ironically against Lincoln in the League Cup, he suffered a serious Achilles tendon injury that kept him out of action for the remainder of the season. He only made one further appearance for Barnsley; in a League Cup tie against Rotherham United in August 2000. Returning to fitness, Austin was loaned to Brentford and also linked up with Trinidad and Tobago, making his one and only appearance for the Warriors in a 1–0 2002 World Cup qualifying win over Panama in Port of Spain in November 2000. However, he was then sidelined by a recurrence of his Achilles tendon injury picked up on international duty in the Cayman Islands. A proposed move to Oxford United fell through when he failed a medical and he was released by Barnsley in the summer of 2001.
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