Boreham Wood have made last season’s Conference title-winning captain, Charlie MacDonald, their second summer addition.

The 34-year-old striker scored eight times in an injury-affected season for Barnet as Martin Allen’s Bees lifted the Conference title for a record third time.

However, the experienced hitman was released at the end of the campaign after not being offered a new contract by the Bees.

Wood boss Ian Allinson said of his newest addition: “I am excited to be able to work with somebody like Charlie and he will be very important to us this season.

“I have said since our promotion that we would need to be patient to get the players that I want at this club and the chairman has thankfully backed me with this deal.

“I will though get a player who understands the level we are now at, a player who is still hungry to perform, a player with great experience and having met him, I know Charlie will be a real asset to the team and his new team mates.”

He had been in discussions with Aldershot Town earlier in the summer but a move to the Recreation Ground did not materialise.

MacDonald was club captain at Barnet last season but knee and calf injuries interrupted the Southwark-born striker’s season at The Hive.

However, he still netted eight league goals in just 24 starts at an average of one every three games.

He won the first of four winners’ medals with Charlton Athletic and scored his first professional goal on his debut for the Division One outfit against Queens Park Rangers in January 2000.

A first Premiership goal followed in 2001 in a 1-1 draw with Newcastle United but that was MacDonald’s last for the Addicks and he left in August 2002 after being released to join Margate of the Conference.

He was soon on the move again, linking up with Stevenage in September and scoring three times in 13 league starts for the Hertfordshire side.

It was MacDonald’s next stop, at Crawley Town, which proved decisive.

A return of ten league goals in 27 starts not only earned the 5ft 7in striker promotion back to the Conference but a switch to Gravesend and Northfleet (now Ebbsfleet United) in 2005 after falling out of favour the following season in Sussex.

After hitting 39 goals in 61 league starts for the Fleet he completed his return to the Football League by joining Southend United in 2007.

Much of his stint at Roots Hall was spent on the bench and after a solitary season in Essex which brought just 11 starts in League One, MacDonald joined Brentford in the league below.

A return of 40 goals in 105 league starts helped the Bees win a third promotion back to the third tier in the 2008/09 campaign. And after a season in League One at Griffin Park, MacDonald sealed a move to MK Dons in the summer of 2011.

Having netted three times in 36 league starts for the League One side he joined Leyton Orient and added a further three goals in 17 starts before a switch to Oldham Athletic in the summer of 2013.

After one season at Boundary Park – which yielded five league goals in 15 starts – he joined Barnet upon his release last summer.