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Luton Town F.C.

2020–21 season
Owner	Luton Town Football Club 2020 Limited
Chairman	David Wilkinson
Manager	Nathan Jones
Stadium	Kenilworth Road
Championship	12th
FA Cup	Fourth round (eliminated by Chelsea)
EFL Cup	Third round (eliminated by Manchester United)
Top goalscorer	League: James Collins (10) All: James Collins (13)
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The 2020–21 season was the 135th in the history of Luton Town Football Club, a professional association football club based in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. Their 19th-place finish in 2019–20 meant it was the club's second consecutive season in the Championship and 95th season in the English Football League. Luton were eliminated in the third round of the 2020–21 EFL Cup, after being beaten 3–0 at home to Premier League club Manchester United, and lost 3–1 away to Chelsea, also of the Premier League, in the FA Cup fourth round.

Background and pre-season

The 2019–20 season was Luton Town's first season back in the Championship after a 12-year absence, having won the League One title in 2018–19. Manager Graeme Jones had his contract terminated by mutual consent in April 2020 with Luton in 23rd place, as part of a restructure of the club's football department to reduce its cost base, after professional football in England was suspended in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With nine matches remaining in the 2019–20 Championship season and the club six points from safety, Nathan Jones was reappointed manager in May, after leaving Stoke City in November 2019. The season resumed in June, and despite being in the relegation zone with one match remaining, Jones led Luton to safety from relegation with a 19th-place finish, after a 3–2 home win over Blackburn Rovers on the final day of the season.

At the end of the 2019–20 season, Luton released Jacob Butterfield and Callum McManaman, while Luke Berry, Danny Hylton, Elliot Lee, Kazenga LuaLua and Glen Rea were retained with new contracts. Luton made four pre-season signings, including defenders James Bree from Aston Villa, Tom Lockyer from Charlton Athletic, Rhys Norrington-Davies on loan from Sheffield United, and midfielder Jordan Clark from Accrington Stanley.

Competitions

EFL Championship

League table

Results summary

Last updated: end of season.
Source:

FA Cup

EFL Cup

Transfers

In

† Brackets around club names indicate the player's contract with that club had expired before he joined Luton.

Out

† Brackets around club names indicate the player joined that club after his Luton contract expired.

Loan in

Loan out

Appearances and goals

Source:

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with names struck through and marked † left the club during the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club for the whole of their season with Luton.

Players listed with no appearances have been in the matchday squad but only as unused substitutes.

Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

Players included in matchday squads

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		EFL Cup		Total		Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ENG	James Shea	7	0	0	0	3	0	10	0	1	0
2	DF	ENG	Martin Cranie	20 (3)	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	21 (4)	0	5	0
3	DF	ENG	Dan Potts	20 (4)	1	1 (1)	0	0	0	21 (5)	1	2	0
4	MF	ENG	Ryan Tunnicliffe	17 (7)	2	2	0	2	0	21 (7)	2	2	0
5	DF	ENG	Sonny Bradley	36 (1)	0	1	0	3	0	40 (1)	0	7	0
6	DF	ENG	Matty Pearson	38 (2)	2	0	0	1	0	39 (2)	2	5	1
7	FW	ENG	Harry Cornick	28 (12)	1	1	0	1 (1)	0	30 (13)	1	1	0
8	MF	ENG	Luke Berry	22 (9)	2	0 (2)	0	1	0	23 (11)	2	4	0
9	FW	ENG	Danny Hylton	6 (10)	0	1	0	2	0	9 (10)	0	5	0
10	FW	ENG	Elliot Lee	8 (4)	1	1	0	1 (2)	0	10 (6)	1	0	0
11	MF	SCO	Andrew Shinnie †	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0
12	GK	CRO	Simon Sluga	39	0	2	0	0	0	41	0	1	0
14	MF	ENG	George Moncur	10 (11)	3	1 (1)	1	2	0	13 (12)	4	0	0
15	DF	WAL	Tom Lockyer	18 (2)	0	1	0	2	0	21 (2)	0	0	1
16	MF	IRL	Glen Rea	33 (7)	3	1	0	1	0	35 (7)	3	11	0
17	MF	ENG	Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu	38 (6)	2	1	0	1	0	40 (6)	2	4	0
18	MF	ENG	Jordan Clark	23 (11)	1	1 (1)	1	2 (1)	1	26 (13)	3	1	0
19	FW	IRL	James Collins	29 (13)	10	0 (1)	0	1	3	30 (14)	13	4	0
20	DF	IRL	Peter Kioso	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	1	0
21	GK	ENG	Harry Isted	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	MF	ENG	Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall *	36 (3)	3	1	0	0	0	37 (3)	3	3	0
23	DF	ENG	Brendan Galloway	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
24	DF	WAL	Rhys Norrington-Davies * †	16 (2)	0	0 (1)	0	3	0	19 (3)	0	2	0
24	MF	SCO	Kal Naismith	17 (5)	1	1	0	0	0	18 (5)	1	1	0
25	MF	DRC	Kazenga LuaLua	5 (18)	2	0 (2)	0	2 (1)	0	7 (21)	2	3	0
26	DF	ENG	James Bree	16 (8)	1	2	0	1	0	19 (8)	1	0	0
27	FW	ENG	Sam Nombe *	1 (10)	0	1	0	0	0	2 (10)	0	1	0
28	MF	WAL	Joe Morrell	5 (5)	0	1	0	0	0	6 (5)	0	0	0
29	FW	ENG	Elijah Adebayo	15 (3)	5	0	0	0	0	15 (3)	5	0	0
30	MF	ENG	Dion Pereira	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
33	MF	ENG	Sam Beckwith	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	DF	ENG	Gabriel Osho	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
39	MF	ENG	Tom Ince *	3 (4)	0	0	0	0	0	3 (4)	0	0	0

Players not included in matchday squads

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name
31	GK	NIR	Tiernan Parker
32	DF	ENG	Avan Jones
34	MF	ENG	Jake Peck
35	DF	ENG	Corey Panter
37	FW	ENG	Josh Neufville

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