The 2015–16 season was the 130th in the history of Luton Town Football Club and the club's 90th season in the Football League. Following their eighth-place finish the previous year, Luton were contesting the season in League Two.

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Luton Town

2015–16 season
Owner	Luton Town Football Club 2020 Limited
Chairman	Nick Owen
Manager	John Still (until 17 December 2015) Andy Awford (caretaker manager until 6 January 2016) Nathan Jones (from 6 January 2016)
Stadium	Kenilworth Road
League Two	11th
FA Cup	Second round
League Cup	Second round
Football League Trophy	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: Jack Marriott (14) All: Jack Marriott (16)
Highest home attendance	9,676 vs Wycombe Wanderers (26 December 2015, League Two)
Lowest home attendance	1,953 vs Leyton Orient (1 September 2015, Football League Trophy first round)
Average home league attendance	8,554
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• 2 June: Luton confirm they have agreed an undisclosed "six-figure" transfer fee for Norwich City midfielder Cameron McGeehan, who will join the club on a two-year contract on 1 July.^[1]
• 30 June: Mark Cullen, the club's top scorer in the previous season, joins League One side Blackpool for £180,000.^[2]
• 1 August: Former Brighton & Hove Albion forward Craig Mackail-Smith signs a two-year contract with Luton after being on trial with the club for over a month.^[3]
• 8 August: Luton begin their 2015–16 campaign with a 1–1 draw away to Accrington Stanley.^[4]
• 24 August: Luton are knocked out of the League Cup at the second round, losing 8–7 in a penalty shootout to Premier League side Stoke City after the game finished 1–1 at extra time.^[5]
• 24 August: Following Brentford's sale of former Luton striker Andre Gray to Burnley, Luton confirm that they will receive £1.1 million in sell-on fees spread over three seasons. Additionally, Luton reveal that if Burnley win promotion to the Premier League with Gray in the side, the club would be due a further £700,000.^[6] The potential total value of Gray's transfer, including the fee Brentford paid in June 2014, makes this one of the most lucrative transfers in Luton Town history.
• 25 August: Striker Jack Marriott signs a new contract to keep him at Luton until the summer of 2017, with the option of extending his deal until 2019.^[7]
• 30 August: Luton's Managing Director Gary Sweet confirms the club is in the final process of buying a 40-acre (160,000 m²) plot of land near Junction 10a of the M1 for £10 million to potentially house a new stadium, or to act as an enabling development to a stadium elsewhere in Luton.^[8]
• 5 September: Luton win their first league game of the season at the sixth time of asking, beating Cambridge United 3–1 at the Abbey Stadium.^[9]
• 22 September: After impressing in his first six games for the club, midfielder Olly Lee signs an extended contract with Luton until June 2017.^[10]
• 3 October: Luton record their biggest Football League away victory since March 2005, winning 4–1 at Hartlepool United to lift the club to tenth in the table.^[11]
• 6 October: Luton are knocked out of the Football League Trophy at the second round following a 2–1 away loss to League One side Gillingham.^[12]

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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

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Players included in matchday squads

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		FL Trophy		Total		Discipline[49]
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ENG	Mark Tyler	27	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	31	0	0	0
2	DF	SCO	Stephen O'Donnell	30	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	33	1	3	0
3	DF	ENG	Dan Potts	14	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	16	0	0	0
4	MF	ENG	Jonathan Smith	33 (4)	4	2	0	1	0	1	0	37 (4)	4	7	0
5	DF	ENG	Steve McNulty †	9 (1)	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	11 (1)	0	3	0
5	DF	IRL	Glen Rea *	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	2	0
6	DF	SCO	Scott Cuthbert	36	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	40	0	2	1
7	MF	WAL	Alex Lawless	21 (7)	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	24 (7)	1	6	0
8	MF	NIR	Cameron McGeehan	35 (6)	12	0 (1)	0	1 (1)	1	1	1	37 (8)	14	9	0
9	FW	ENG	Paul Benson	13 (7)	4	0 (1)	0	1 (1)	1	0	0	14 (9)	5	3	1
10	MF	ENG	Ryan Hall	5 (5)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0 (2)	0	5 (8)	0	2	1
11	MF	ENG	Danny Green	19 (6)	5	0 (2)	0	1	0	1 (1)	1	21 (9)	6	7	0
12	DF	ENG	Scott Griffiths	17 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	20 (4)	0	1	0
14	FW	ENG	Jack Marriott	21 (19)	14	1	0	1	2	2	0	25 (19)	16	2	1
15	MF	NIR	Paddy McCourt	15 (9)	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	16 (9)	1	4	0
16	GK	ENG	Elliot Justham	14 (1)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	16 (1)	0	0	0
17	MF	ENG	Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu	12 (9)	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	15 (9)	2	0	0
18	DF	NGR	Magnus Okuonghae	7 (4)	0	1	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	9 (5)	0	2	0
19	MF	ENG	Olly Lee	31 (3)	3	2	0	1	0	2	0	36 (3)	3	6	0
20	DF	IRL	Sean Long * †	7 (2)	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	9 (2)	0	2	0
21	MF	ENG	Luke Guttridge †	6 (2)	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	9 (2)	2	1	0
21	GK	ENG	Jonathan Mitchell * †	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	0
22	FW	SCO	Craig Mackail-Smith	27 (6)	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	28 (6)	4	3	0
23	FW	NIR	Josh McQuoid	20 (9)	3	2	2	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	24 (11)	5	4	0
24	DF	ENG	Curtley Williams	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	DF	IRL	Mark O'Brien	2 (4)	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	5 (4)	0	1	0
26	MF	ENG	Nathan Doyle	6 (5)	0	1	0	0 (1)	0	1	0	8 (6)	0	2	0
27	MF	ENG	Tyreeq Bakinson	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
30	DF	ENG	Luke Wilkinson †	20	3	2	0	2	0	0	0	24	3	3	0
31	GK	ENG	Craig King	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	FW	ENG	Zane Banton	0 (4)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (4)	0	0	0
36	DF	ENG	James Justin	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
37	DF	ENG	Frankie Musonda	0 (3)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (3)	0	0	0
40	DF	WAL	Jake Howells	14 (3)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14 (3)	0	1	0
44	DF	IRL	Alan Sheehan *	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	1	2	0
45	FW	ENG	Joe Pigott *	10 (5)	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	10 (5)	4	1	0

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