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.

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.