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Kamarai Swyer

English footballer (born 2002)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ115130348 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kamarai Joshua Simon-Swyer (born 4 December 2002) is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for EFL League Two club Northampton Town.

Career

Simon-Swyer joined West Ham United at the age of eight. On his 18th birthday, Simon-Swyer signed his first professional contract with West Ham.

Simon-Swyer's first involvement in West Ham's first team came in a 1–0 defeat against Dinamo Zagreb, where he was an unused substitute in a UEFA Europa League tie on 9 December 2021. On 3 November 2022, Simon-Swyer made his debut for West Ham in a 3–0 UEFA Europa Conference League win against Romanian club FCSB coming on as a 77th minute substitute for Divin Mubama.

In July 2023, he signed a further two-year contract with the club.

On 29 July 2023, Simon-Swyer signed for League Two club Crawley Town on a season-long loan. He made his Crawley debut on 5 August in a 1–0 home win against Bradford City coming on as an 83rd minute substitute for Dom Telford. Having made 11 appearances for the club, he was recalled by West Ham in January 2024.

In May 2025, Simon-Swyer signed a two-year contract with League One team Northampton Town linking up again with manager Kevin Nolan with whom he had worked when Nolan was first team coach at West Ham United.

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“Kamarai Swyer” enters the record as english footballer (born 2002). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kamarai, Swyer and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—2002, 2021, 2022, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-12-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kamarai, Swyer and English.
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“Kamarai Swyer” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kamarai, Swyer and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115130348. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kamarai Swyer” 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.