CMC – Bermudian winger Justin Donawa has signed a new deal to stay at English National League North side Darlligton, despite the cessation of football due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.

Terms of 23-year-old Donawa’s contract were not disclosed.

Donawa joined the club, who play in the sixth tier of English football, last summer and scored nine times during 37 appearances, with two of the goals coming in the club’s FA Cup run.

For a time Donawa played alongside his Bermuda team-mate Osagi Bascome at Darlington before the midfielder was released by the club earlier this year.

In a statement, Darlington said: “Everyone at the club is very pleased that Justin will be returning for the new season, whenever that is.”

Donawa will again face Bermuda team-mate Dale Eve after the goalkeeper signed a new deal at league rivals Spennymoor Town.

Manager Alun Armstrong joined Donawa in extending his contract, a spokesman saying: “Alun, who was appointed last summer, has made great strides in his first season, guiding the club to the first round of the FA Cup for the first time since 2010, and to 11th place in the league, just outside the play-offs, before the season was prematurely ended [by the coronavirus outbreak].”

Bermudian midfielder Milan Butterfield, who joined National League North side Kidderminster Harriers in 2018, has begun talks with manager Russ Penn over his future at the Worcestershire club.

Elsewhere, Jamaican striker Jamille Matt is waiting to learn his fate at League Two club Newport County as his two-year contract expires at the end of June.

Newport last played on March 10 and sat 15th in the table when the season was halted by the pandemic.

Manager Michael Flynn, his coaches and players were furloughed in mid-April.

Injury-hit Matt, 30, scored only six times this term after netting 20 goals in his first season which saw Newport narrowly miss out on promotion to League One, losing the play-off final 1-0 to Tranmere Rovers.