Ollie Bassett

Ollie Bassett
Personal information
Full name Oliver Jacob Bassett
Date of birth (1998-03-06) 6 March 1998
Place of birth Packington, Leicestershire, England[1]
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Playing position Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current team
Dorchester Town
(on loan from Yeovil Town)
Youth career
Aston Villa
2014–2015 Southampton
2015 Yeovil Town
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015– Yeovil Town 2 (0)
2016Dorchester Town (loan) 4 (0)
2016–Dorchester Town (loan) 6 (2)
National team
2016– Northern Ireland U19 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:16, 3 December 2016 (UTC).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11:33, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Oliver Jacob "Ollie" Bassett (born 6 March 1998) is a footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Dorchester Town on loan from Yeovil Town. He represents Northern Ireland at youth international level.

Club career

Born in Packington, Leicestershire,[1] Bassett started his football career as a youngster in the Aston Villa Academy and as a teenager played futsal.[2] Before signing a scholarship at Southampton in the summer of 2014.[3]

On 19 September 2015, Bassett made his Football League debut for Yeovil Town in a 1–0 victory against Crawley Town,[4] at the age of just 17 years, 6 months and 13 days he broke the record for the youngest Yeovil player in the Football League.[5] On 3 December 2015, Bassett was awarded his first professional contract with Yeovil Town, committing him to the club until June 2017.[6]

On 13 September 2016, Bassett joined Southern League Premier Division side Dorchester Town on an initial one-month loan deal.[7] Bassett made his debut the following day as a second-half substitute in Dorchester's 4–0 victory against Frome Town, with Bassett providing the assist for the fourth goal.[8] Having made four appearances in his first loan spell with Dorchester, Bassett returned on loan to the Southern League club on 28 October 2016.[9]

International career

In August 2016, Bassett was called up to the Northern Ireland under-19 side for a training camp.[10] Bassett did enough to impress the Northern Ireland coaching staff to receive a call-up for their 2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification matches in October 2016.[11][12] On 6 October 2016, Bassett made his debut for Northern Ireland under-19s against Slovakia in a 1–0 defeat.[13]

Career statistics

As of match played 3 December 2016.[14]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Yeovil Town 2015–16[15] League Two 2000000020
2016–17[16] League Two 0000000000
Dorchester Town (loan) 2016–17 Southern Premier 102003[lower-alpha 1]1133
Career totals 122000031153
  1. Two appearances and one goal in FA Trophy, one appearance in Dorset Senior Cup

References

  1. 1 2 3 "FootballSquads – Yeovil Town – 2015/16". FootballSquads. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  2. "The Ashbeian – Issue 24 – Spring term 2013" (PDF). Ashby School. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  3. "A Packington teenager has signed for Premiership football club Southampton". Ashby Monitor. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  4. "Crawley Town 0–1 Yeovil Town". BBC Sport. 19 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  5. "Ollie Bassett: Yeovil Town teenager breaks record". BBC Sport. 21 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  6. "Ollie Bassett signs first professional contract". Yeovil Town F.C. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  7. "Academy Graduate Bassett heads out on loan". Yeovil Town F.C. 13 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  8. "Robins grounded by Nathan Walker's treble". Dorchester Town F.C. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  9. "Bassett re-joins Dorchester Town on loan". ytfc.net. Yeovil Town F.C. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  10. "Bassett Given International Training Camp Call-Up". Ciderspace (an independent Yeovil Town FC website). 16 August 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  11. "Bassett called up for Northern Ireland under-19 qualifiers". ytfc.net. Yeovil Town F.C. 20 September 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  12. "Men U19s begin Euro qualifiers on Thursday". irishfa.com. Irish Football Association. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  13. "Under-19 2017 – Northern Ireland–Slovakia". uefa.com. UEFA. 6 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  14. "Ollie Bassett". Soccerbase. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  15. "Games played by Ollie Bassett in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  16. "Games played by Ollie Bassett in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Retrieved 1 July 2016.


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