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Ryan Kavuma-McQueen

English footballer (born 2009)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ136678018 ↗
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Ryan Denis Edward Kavuma-McQueen (born 1 January 2009) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for EFL Championship club Portsmouth, on loan from Chelsea.

Early life

Kavuma-McQueen was born on 1 January 2009 at Hammersmith Hospital in White City, London. Born in England, he is of Ugandan descent through his parents.

Club career

Kavuma-McQueen joined the youth academy of Premier League side Chelsea at the age of seven, having played for youth clubs Little Foxes and Shooting Stars. During the 2024–25 season, Kavuma-McQueen regularly featured for Chelsea’s U18 side despite still being eligible for the U16 age group. He also made a number of appearances for the club’s U21 team during the same campaign. On 22 October 2025, Kavuma-McQueen was named on the bench for Chelsea’s first team in the UEFA Champions League match against Ajax. It was his first involvement in a senior matchday squad for the club.

As a second-half substitute, Kavuma-McQueen debuted for Chelsea on 4 April 2026 during the 7–0 victory against Port Vale in the FA Cup quarter-finals.

On 14 August 2026, Kavuma-McQueen joined Championship club Portsmouth on loan for the duration of the 2026–27 season.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ryan Kavuma-McQueen” as english footballer (born 2009). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2024, 2025, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Ryan, Kavuma-McQueen and English can be independently traced.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136678018. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ryan Kavuma-McQueen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.