Callum Roddie Elder is an Australian professional footballer born in Sydney on 27 January 1995. A left-sided defender and full-back, he developed in Australia before joining Leicester City’s academy. After a series of English loan spells, he established himself at Hull City, later played for Derby County and joined Lincoln City on a reported two-year contract in June 2026. He has represented Australia at under-20 and senior level. Provider data supplied for this profile—sport=FOOTBALL, provider_id=19724, team=Lincoln, position=Defender, status=Active—matches the player identified in the cited records.
Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Callum Elder began his development with Manly United before moving to Leicester City’s academy as a teenager. He progressed through Leicester’s system as a left-sided defender and gained his first substantial senior experience on loan in the English Football League. His early pathway included Mansfield Town, Peterborough United, Brentford, Barnsley and Wigan Athletic, followed by a loan spell at Ipswich Town.
Elder’s breakthrough came through regular League One football, particularly during his time with Mansfield Town, Peterborough United and Wigan Athletic. At Wigan in 2017–18 he became part of a side that won League One and produced a notable FA Cup run, including a 3–0 victory over Premier League Bournemouth in which Elder scored. He later joined Hull City permanently in 2019 and became an established option at left-back, making more than 130 league appearances for the club and winning the 2020–21 League One title.
After Hull, Elder signed for Derby County in 2023. He played in both League One and the Championship, and was used as a conventional left-back and at times in a more advanced wing-back role. During the 2025–26 season he scored his first Derby goal from a direct free-kick against Coventry City, but his campaign was curtailed by a toe injury and subsequent knee surgery. Derby confirmed that he would leave when his contract expired in June 2026.
Lincoln City announced Elder’s arrival on a free transfer in June 2026. The move gave him a return to the Championship with a recently promoted club. As at 24 August 2026, he is listed as an active Lincoln defender. His international career includes one Australia under-20 appearance and three senior caps, with his senior debut coming in 2021. Elder is left-footed, 1.80 metres tall and primarily operates as a left-back or left wing-back.
Elder’s first major senior opportunity came through his 2014–15 loan at Mansfield Town, where he made 21 League Two appearances. His wider breakthrough followed with regular League One football for Peterborough United and Wigan Athletic. The available records do not verify a single named scout or exact discovery event.
Verified records show 304 club and international appearances, five goals and 32 assists in the FootyStats database, excluding friendlies; competition coverage and aggregation methods should be read with that source’s stated limitations. Opta records list 79 Derby appearances from 2023 through 2025–26 and 131 Hull appearances from 2019 through 2022–23. Elder has three senior Australia caps and one Australia under-20 appearance in the available career records. His documented team honours include League One titles with Wigan Athletic in 2017–18 and Hull City in 2020–21.
Elder scored Wigan Athletic’s third goal in a 3–0 FA Cup replay victory over Premier League Bournemouth on 17 January 2018. He also scored Derby County’s first goal for the club with a direct free-kick in a 3–5 Championship defeat by Coventry City on 16 August 2025. In January 2025, he was denied by goalkeeper Josh Keeley in Derby’s FA Cup penalty shoot-out defeat by Leyton Orient.