Inter Miami CF has signed Haitian attacker Lovens Delinois to his first Major League Soccer first-team contract, promoting the 21-year-old from the club’s MLS NEXT Pro affiliate, Inter Miami CF II.
The club announced the move on Saturday.
According to Inter Miami, Delinois signed a contract that runs through the 2027 MLS “Sprint” season — the shortened transitional campaign as the league shifts to a fall-to-spring calendar — with extension options for the 2027-28, 2028-29 and 2029-30 seasons.
To make room for him, the club acquired an international roster slot from the New England Revolution in exchange for $250,000 in general allocation money, split as $125,000 in 2026 and $125,000 in 2027.
Delinois will occupy that international slot through the end of the 2026 MLS season; Field Level Media reported the slot expires Dec. 31, 2026.
Delinois, whose full name is listed as Lovend’s Junior Delinois, was born Oct. 5, 2004, in Haiti. Listed as a forward who can operate on the left wing, he stands about 5-foot-11 and is right-footed, according to his Transfermarkt profile and his agency, Future Soccer.
He made his professional debut for Inter Miami CF II in August 2024, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 5-1 win over Chattanooga, and continued developing with the affiliate through the 2026 season before earning the jump to the senior squad.
The promotion follows a stretch of senior action.
Delinois was part of Inter Miami’s roster for the 2026 Leagues Cup and started the club’s Phase One matches against Liga MX sides CF Monterrey and Club León.
Inter Miami, the defending MLS Cup champion and one of the most watched clubs in North America under manager Javier Mascherano, has regularly used its developmental setup to move academy and reserve players into the senior team — and Delinois is the latest to take that step.
At the first-team level, he joins a squad headlined by Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, Casemiro, and Rodrigo De Paul, among the most decorated players in the world game.
How much playing time Delinois earns down the stretch remains to be seen, but the contract secures the Haiti-born forward a place on a marquee MLS roster for the rest of the season.
Available records show no senior appearances for Haiti’s national team. His signing adds to the growing presence of Haitian and Haitian-descended players in North American professional soccer, and places a Haiti-born forward on one of MLS’s highest-profile rosters — a point of pride for Haitian football fans following the league.
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