Why Callum O’Dowda is on this page

Heritage: Born in Oxfordshire and qualified to play for the Republic of Ireland through Irish family heritage; he chose to represent Ireland and made his senior debut on 31 May 2016. Heritage classification: Irish-diaspora-named, and Republic of Ireland senior international.

Callum O’Dowda (born 23 April 1995) is an Irish-English professional footballer who plays as a left winger and left back for Ferencváros in the Hungarian Nemzeti Bajnokság I and the Republic of Ireland national team. He came through the Oxford United academy from the age of nine, breaking into the first team and winning the club’s Young Player of the Year for 2012–13 before moving to Bristol City in the Championship in summer 2016, where he spent six seasons. Released by Bristol City in May 2022, he later signed for Cardiff City, then on 4 July 2025 moved to Ferencváros, the Hungarian club then managed by his former Republic of Ireland teammate Robbie Keane; he scored on his European debut for the club, in a 2–1 second-qualifying-round win over FC Noah in the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League. He received his first Republic of Ireland senior call-up on 12 May 2016 and made his international debut on 31 May 2016 as a second-half substitute against Belarus. His sister is Jade O’Dowda, the 2022 Commonwealth Games heptathlon bronze medallist.

Family connections

• sister: Jade O’Dowda

Heritage notes

Family root: Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England — irish-diaspora-named-roi-international.

The directory threads Callum O’Dowda back to the O'Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.