Bio

Wales youth international Ollie is developing into an exciting talent for the Baggies. 

The club showed their commitment to progressing Bostock's career by offering him his professional contract in March 2024 - with the then 17-year-old only signing his scholarship in the summer of 2023, thus showing Albion's high hopes for the attacker's future development at the club. 

He ended the 23/24 campaign by picking up the Academy Player of the Year award. 

Ollie was born in Kingston, London, prior to relocating to Lichfield with his family at an early stage of his life - which is where he caught the eyes of Albion's youth staff. 

Bostock joined the academy setup in B71 as a six-year-old and has risen through the ranks since in pursuit of his professional goal.

An attacker, who can play across all of the attacking positions centrally or out wide, Bostock captained Wales' U17 team during his time with the age group and even led them out at the 2024 European Championship finals. 

As he has proven at the club and international level, Ollie is creative player who makes things happen in the final third. He played plenty of minutes in Albion's U18 side while still an U16 during the 2022/23 season, and those promising performances earned him a scholarship at The Hawthorns in June 2023. 

Bostock featured in the U21s during the 23/24 campaign and impressed, settling into a higher age group at just 16-years-old. Due to the academy's recent shift in focus giving youngsters more chances at higher age groups, more of those opportunities continued to come Ollie's way. 

After penning professional terms off the back of his first term as a scholar in March 2024, Bostock was thrown into the first team group for pre-season ahead of the 24/25 season. He impressed coaching staff and players during his summer in the senior fold and, had an injury not set him back towards the end of preparations, he might have joined many of his academy colleagues in making his senior debut for the club that campaign. 

Still, Ollie enjoyed some special moments that term both in the 18s and the 21s. He was instrumental in Albion's run to the FA Youth Cup quarter-finals, scoring two goals and providing two assists along the way, while also chipping in with a handful of goal contributions (two goals, two assists) in the PL2 team.

The 24/25 campaign also saw Bostock make his bow for Wales' U19 side in November 2024 - scoring a fine, memorable goal on his first start against France's youngsters while also appearing against Liechtenstein and Scotland in their Euro qualifiers.

With an already impressive footballing CV under his belt, Ollie will have his eyes set on breaking into Albion's senior mould on a permanent basis.