The 27-year-old settled well in his first season at Goodison Park after his switch from Leeds United, when they were in League One, and he hit the net on 10 occasions for David Moyes' team. Beckford said: "I feel like I have improved here, largely because I am playing with better players and over the course of last season I got to know their games and they got to know mine. "Also I have not been used to playing as a one up top and that is something I have had to get used to and hopefully people have been able to see a slight improvement. "My aim now is to come back, have a really good pre-season, get into the team straight away and stay there. If that does not happen then so be it but you can be sure I'll still be working hard. "It was good to get into double figures in my first season and hopefully next year I can get even more."
