Inter Toronto unveil Ollie Bassett as first signing of new era
Inter Toronto announced the signing of 2022 CPL Player of the Year Ollie Bassett as part of Thursday’s rebranding event in Toronto.
Bassett returns to the league a year after leaving Atlético Ottawa as the club’s second-highest scorer with 26 goals in 92 appearances. He also shared the 2023 Golden Boot award with Myer Bevan after scoring 11 goals in the regular season.
He joined the USL’s Tampa Bay Rowdies in November 2024 but made just four goal contributions during the 2025 campaign.
Bassett won the North Star Cup with Pacific FC in 2021 and lifted the CPL Shield with Atlético Ottawa the following season as the best team in regular-season play.
The 27-year-old midfielder from the East Midlands began his professional career in League Two with Yeovil Town before dropping down the tiers in England. He also spent two seasons in the now-defunct New Zealand Football Championship and had a short stint with a semi-pro team in Australia.
The 2022 season with Atlético Ottawa was by far the best of his nomadic career. Playing as a box-to-box midfielder that year, Bassett ranked third-highest among CPL players with 42 chances created and finished with a 83.1 pass completion percentage.
He now joins his third CPL side and finds a team in transition both on and off the pitch. Formerly named York United, Inter Toronto have traded in their green, white, and blue jerseys for a combination of “Lake Ontario Blue, Trillium White, Sunrise Gold, and Tower Stone,” the club said in a statement Thursday.
York United were eliminated in the quarterfinal stage of the 2025 CPL playoffs after finishing fifth in the eight-team league with a 10-8-10 record and a plus-five goal differential.
