Academy of Football graduate Ezra Mayers is a speedy left-sided defender who can play at left-back or centre-back.

With West Ham United since the age of nine, Wanstead-born Mayers won the Dylan Tombides Award as the Academy's outstanding scholar in 2023/24.

An U18 Premier League Cup winner in 2024/25, Mayers joined the first-team squad in 2025/26 and made his senior debut as a substitute in a 1-1 Premier League draw at Brighton & Hove Albion in December 2025.

Career

2025/26

Appeared in EFL Trophy group-stage ties at MK Dons and Reading and started the round of 32 win at Colchester United...Scored in a 2-2 Premier League 2 draw at Arsenal on 4 October 2025...Made his first-team debut for West Ham United as a substitute in a 1-1 Premier League draw at Brighton & Hove Albion in December 2025...Appeared as a substitute in Premier League fixtures at Manchester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers and home to Brighton and Nottingham Forest either side of Christmas and the New Year...His full senior debut came in the FA Cup, a 2-1 third-round win over Queens Park Rangers at London Stadium.

2024/25

Named in his first senior squad for the Premier League fixture against Arsenal on 30 November 2024...Started 19 out of 20 Premier League 2 fixtures for the U21s...Started both Premier League 2 play-off ties against Sunderland and Manchester United...Started all three EFL Trophy group-stage ties...Started National League Cup ties against Sutton United, Ebbsfleet and Dagenham & Redbridge...Appeared against Olympique Lyonnais B and Borussia Moenchengladbach II in the Premier League International Cup group stage...Started the FA Youth Cup third-round defeat at Grimsby Town...Made 31 appearances in all competitions for the U21s and U18.

2023/24

Started 20 of 26 U18 Premier League matches and made one substitute appearance, and started both play-off ties against Blackburn Rovers and Sunderland...Scored his first U18 Premier League goal in a 3-1 home win over Brighton & Hove Albion on 16 March 2024...Started both FA Youth Cup ties - a penalty shootout win over Southampton and extra-time defeat by Manchester United...Made his U21s debut in a 3-2 home Premier League 2 win over Derby County on 5 April 2024, then started the final two games of the season against Norwich City and Leicester City...Won the Dylan Tombides Award for the Academy of Football's outstanding scholar.

2022/23

Made his U18 Premier League debut in a 2-1 defeat at Southampton on 28 January 2023, aged 16 years and 12 days...Totalled six U18 Premier League appearances, two of them starts.