Dover Athletic sign former West Ham United forward Djair Parfitt-Williams on a non-contract basis

A forward who once played for West Ham in the Europa League has joined Dover.

The 25-year-old bolsters Whites manager Andy Hessenthaler's attacking options, having signed on a non-contract basis.

He signed for West Ham as a teenager and came off the bench for the first-team in both legs of their Europa League qualifiers over Andorran side Lusitanos in July 2015, playing alongside the likes of strikers Diafra Sakho, while he came on in place of ex-Lazio and Inter Milan frontman Mauro Zárate in the first leg.

He was named in Premier League squads, too, but was only an unused substitute on those occasions.

But Bermudan-born Parfitt-Williams did help the Hammers win the Under-21 Premier League Cup during the 2015/16 season, coming off the bench to score the winner in the first leg of their two-legged final against Hull.

In the then-named Papa John's Trophy, he also scored for the under-21s in a 1-1 draw with Northampton in November 2016, before the east London club won 3-2 on penalties. England international Declan Rice also played in that game.

Having left West Ham in 2018, he moved to Slovenia to sign for top-flight side NK Rudar Velenje, before linking up with Icelandic side Fylkir in February 2020, but is now back in the UK.

National League basement boys Dover, without a weekend fixture following the postponement of their trip to FC Halifax, are due in action at Aldershot on Tuesday night.