Sky Bet League Two: Retained Players for the 2023/24 Season
League Two Retain Lists 2023/24
As the 2022/23 season comes to a close, all League Two clubs have been making crucial decisions regarding the futures of their players.
Each club submit a retained list, detailing the status of each player within their respective squads. These lists include players who will remain under contract for the next season, those who have been offered new contracts or are in negotiations for contract extensions, players who have been released, and those returning to their parent clubs after loan spells.
These decisions not only shape the makeup of each club's squad but also impact the overall transfer activity within the league. In the following, we provide a view the retained lists of all League Two clubs for the upcoming 2023/24 season. (Due to Play-Off activity Stockport and Carlisle list are still pending)
AFC Wimbledon
Players under contract
Ali Al-Hamadi, Quaine Bartley, Alfie Bendle, Huseyin Biler, Nathan Broome, Lee Brown, Marcel Campbell, Jack Currie, Josh Davison, Josh Hallard, Ben Mason, Paul Kalambayi, Will Nightingale, Alex Pearce, Harry Pell, Zach Robinson, Ethan Sutcliffe, Nik Tzanev, Alex Woodyard
Players offered new contracts
Ethan Chislett, Aaron Pierre
Players released
Dylan Adjei-Hersey, Elliott Bolton, Aaron Cosgrave, David Fisher, Kwaku Frimpong, Luke Jenkins, George Marsh
Contract option triggered
Isaac Ogundere
Retired
Chris Gunter
Players returning to parent clubs
Diallang Jaiyesimi, Saikou Janneh, Armani Little, Kasey McAteer, Sam Pearson
Barrow
Players under contract
Paul Farman, Tyrell Warren, Elliott Newby, Rory Feely, George Ray, Naill Canavan, Sam Foley, Tom White, Robbie Gotts, Ben Whitfield, Richie Bennett, Ged Garner
Players offered new contracts
Josh Gordon, Josh Kay, Josh Lillis
Players released
Scott Moloney, David Moyo, Mark Ellis, Joe Grayson, Solomon Nwabuokei, Benni Smales-Braithwaite, Pawel Zuk
Retired
Jason Taylor
Players returning to parent clubs
Sam McClelland, Harrison Neal, Jake Young
Bradford
Players under contract
Brad Halliday, Ciarán Kelly, Colin Doyle, Emmanuel Osadebe, Finn Cousin-Dawson, Harry Chapman, Harry Lewis, Jake Young, Jamie Walker, Luke Hendrie, Matt Derbyshire, Matty Foulds, Matty Platt, Richie Smallwood, Ryan East, Sam Stubbs, Timi Odusina, Vadaine Oliver
Players offered new contracts
Alex Gilliead, Andy Cook, Bobby Pointon, Dylan Youmbi, Harvey Rowe, Heath Richardson, Liam Ridehalgh
Players released
Abo Eisa, Adam Clayton, Charlie Wood, Cole Roberts, Jack Wilson, Kian Scales, Oscar Threlkeld, Yann Songo’o
Offered Professional Contracts
Freddy Jeffreys, Jay Tinsdale, Noah Wadsworth, Sam Bentley
Contract option triggered
Colin Doyle
Players returning to parent clubs
Dara Costelloe (Burnley), Dion Pereira (Luton Town), Romoney Crichlow (Huddersfield Town), Scott Banks (Crystal Palace), Thierry Nevers (West Ham United) and Tolaji Bola (Rotherham United)
Carlisle
TBC
Colchester
Players under contract
Sam Hornby, Will Greenidge, Tom Dallison, Fiacre Kelleher, Arthur Read, Alex Newby, Matt Jay, Gene Kennedy, Junior Tchamadeu, John Akinde, Tom Hopper, Connor Hall, Donell Thomas, Jake Hutchinson, Samson Tovide, Ryan Lowe, Frankie Terry, Ted Collins, Oscar Thorn.
First Team/U21 Players To Be Retained/Club Option Exercised
Noah Chilvers, Ossama Ashley, Al-Amin Kazeem, Marley Marshall Miranda, Chay Cooper, Jayden Fevrier, Harry Beadle, Kaan Bennett, Bradley Ihionvien.
Players released
Ryan Clampin, Luke Chambers, Tommy Smith, Luke Hannant, Cole Skuse, Alan Judge, Freddie Sears, Kieran O’Hara, Tom Eastman, Lordon Akolbire, Emyr Huws, Billy Cracknell, Harvey Sayer, Lion Bello, Benedict Bioletti.
Players returning to parent clubs
Kwesi Appiah, Tom Smith, Connor Wood.
Scholars To Be Retained
Bayan Aman, T’iazo Marcel-Dilaver, Matt Yates - contract offer made.
Scholars To Be Released
Sean Brown, Bradley Chakawa, Jaiden Drakes-Thomas, Kacy Parish, Freddie Price, Kai Redgrave, Jaime Tedaldi.
Crawley
Players under contract
Corey Addai, Dion Conroy, Tony Craig, Joel Lynch, Brandon Mason, Tobi Omole, Travis Johnson, Kellan Gordon, James Tilley, Jack Powell, Jayden Davis, Florian Kastrati, Jake Hessenthaler, Ben Gladwin, Jack Roles, Ashley Nadesan, Dom Telford, Kwesi Appiah, Jed Brown.
Option exercised
Harry Ransom, Nick Tsaroulla.
Contract talks with the club
Rafiq Khaleel, Aramide Oteh, Roshan Greensall.
Players returning to parent clubs
Ryan Schofield, Mazeed, Teddy Jenks, Tom Fellows, Jack Spong, Caleb Chukwuemeka.
Players released
Ludwig Francillette, Ben Wells, Jordon Mutch, Anthony Grant, Davide Rodari.
Crewe
Offered fresh terms
Dan Agyei, Lewis Billington, Tom Booth, Charlie Finney, Christopher Long, Rod McDonald, Tariq Uwakwe.
Players released
Callum Ainley, David Amoo, Sean Lawton, Kelvin Mellor.
Scholars offered professional contracts
Zak Kempster-Down, Owen Lunt, Max Woodcock.
Players returning to parent clubs
James Beadle, Lachlan Brook, Ryan Finnigan, Sean Robertson.
Doncaster
Players under contract
Tom Anderson, Harrison Biggins, Ben Close, Jack Degruchy, Bobby Faulkner, Kyle Hurst, Tavonga Kuleya, Adam Long, James Maxwell, George Miller, Luke Molyneux, Joseph Olowu, Liam Ravenhill, Tommy Rowe, Jon Taylor.
Players offered new contracts
Ben Bottomley, Louis Jones, Charlie Seaman, Zain Westbrooke.
Players released
Kieran Agard, Aidan Barlow, Jonathan Mitchell, Ro-Shaun Williams.
Released but invited back for pre-season training
Ollie Younger
Senior players made available for transfer
Reo Griffiths, Caolan Lavery
Players returning to parent clubs
James Brown, Charlie Lakin, Todd Miller, Ben Nelson
Scholar offered professional contract
Jack Goodman
Scholars to be released
Tom Chambers, Alex Fletcher, Ethan Harrison, Faris Khan, Josh Lindley, Tom Parkinson, Charlie Petch, Jack Raper, Jak Whiting.
Gillingham
Players under contract
Glenn Morris, Cheye Alexander, Will Wright, Max Ehmer, Shaun Williams, Robbie McKenzie, Dom Jefferies, Jayden Clarke, Ethan Coleman, Lewis Walker, Tom Nichols, Jake Turner, Oli Hawkins, Joe Gbode, Josh Chambers, Tim Dieng, George Lapslie.
Players offered new contracts
David Tutonda, Alex Macdonald.
Players released
Bailey Akehurst, Stuart O'Keefe, Olly Lee, Ben Reeves, Scott Kashket, Lewis Page, Jordan Green.
Players returning to parent clubs
Tristan Abrahams, Aiden O'Brien, and Hakeeb Adelakun
Signing from Loan
Ike Orji, Conor Masterson
Scholars to be released
Will Dempsey, Julian Kuhr, Elliott Moore, Freddie Carter.
Scholars offered professional contract
Sam Gale, Alex Giles, Matty MacArthur, Ronald Sithole.
Grimsby
Players under contract
Michee Efete, Anthony Glennon, Kieran Green, Luke Waterfall, Gavan Holohan, Otis Khan, Harry Clifton, Alex Hunt, Danilo Orsi, Evan Khouri, Niall Maher, Aaron Braithwaite, Harvey Tomlinson, Edwin Essel.
The Club have also taken up the option to extend Jamie Bramwell’s contract while Danny Amos has triggered an appearance-related extension to his deal.
Players released
Ollie Battersby, Bryn Morris, Ryan Taylor, Josh Emmanuel, Owen Gallacher, Jaz Goundry, Jordan Cropper, Sean Scannell.
Retired
Shaun Pearson
Offered terms
Max Crocombe.
Players returning to parent clubs
George Lloyd (Cheltenham Town), John McAtee (Luton Town), Mikey O’Neill (Preston North End), Tom Dickson-Peters (Norwich City), Andy Smith (Hull City).
Harrogate
Players under contract
Mark Oxley, Pete Jameson, Joe Mattock, Warren Burrell, Toby Sims, Anthony O’Connor, Kayne Ramsay, Josh Falkingham, George Thomson, Levi Sutton, Stephen Dooley, Sam Folarin, Jack Muldoon, Emmanuel Ilesanmi, Luke Armstrong, Miles Welch-Hayes, Kyle Ferguson, Will Smith.
Players released
Dior Angus, Max Wright and Alex Pattison
Players returning to parent clubs
Matty Foulds, Tom Eastman, Kazeem Olaigbe, Matty Daly and Danny Grant
Hartlepool
Players under contract
Callum Cooke, Tom Crawford, Josh Umerah, Dan Dodds, David Ferguson, Oliver Finney, Jake Hastie, Alex Lacey, Euan Murray, Mikael Ndjoli, Brody Paterson, Joe Grey.
Contract clauses exercised
Mo Sylla, Edon Pruti, Matthew Dolan.
Ongoing discussions
Connor Jennings, Nicky Featherstone, Ben Killip, Pat Boyes.
Players released
Leon Clarke, Jamie Sterry, Peter Hartley, Mohammed Niang, Wes McDonald, Brendan Kiernan.
Players returning to parent clubs
Taylor Foran, Rollin Menayese, Jack Hamilton, Dan Kemp, Jakub Stolarczyk, Tayt Trusty.
Leyton Orient
Players under contract
Theo Archibald, Aaron Drinan, Rob Hunt, Tom James, Ethan Light, George Moncur, Zech Obiero, Shadrach Ogie, Ruel Sotiriou, Jephte Tanga, Adam Thompson.
Players released
Craig Clay, Sonny Fish, Anthony Georgiou, Jordan Lyden, Sam Sargeant, Harry Smith, Connor Wood, Matt Young.
Offered A New Contract
Omar Beckles, Jordan Brown, Rhys Byrne, Dan Happe, Darren Pratley, Paul Smyth, Harrison Sodje, Jayden Sweeney, Lawrence Vigouroux, Daniel Nkrumah.
Players returning to parent clubs
Stephen Duke-McKenna, Idris El Mizouni, Charlie Kelman, Jamie McCart, Kieran Sadlier, Ed Turns.
Mansfield
Players under contract
Lucas Akins, Hiram Boateng, Jordan Bowery, Ollie Clarke, James Gale, Anthony Hartigan, Elliott Hewitt, Callum Johnson, Davis Keillor-Dunn, Alfie Kilgour, George Maris, Owen Mason, Stephen McLaughlin, Rhys Oates, John-Joe O’Toole, Louis Reed.
Options triggered
Taylor Anderson, Scott Flinders.
Contract discussions underway
George Cooper, Jason Law, James Perch, Stephen Quinn, Kieran Wallace.
Players returning to parent clubs
Riley Harbottle (Nottingham Forest), Christy Pym (Peterborough United), Will Swan (Nottingham Forest).
Players released
Danny Johnson, Jimmy Knowles.
Newport
Players under contract
Sam Bowen, Declan Drysdale, Omar Bogle, Harry Charsley, Joseph Day, William Evans, Joshua Edwards, Aaron Wildig, Harrison Bright, James Waite, Offrande Zanzala, Kiban Rai.
Offered A New Contract
Scot Bennett, James Clarke, Michael Demetriou, Priestley Farquharson, Aaron Lewis, Cameron Norman, Nicholas Townsend.
Players released
Lewis Collins, Jack Karadogan, Evan Ovendale, Lewys Twamley, Joseph Woodiwiss, Robbie Wilmott, Matty Dolan.
Players returning to parent clubs
Matthew Baker, Charlie McNeill, Calum Kavanagh, Adam Lewis, Nathan Moriah Welsh.
Northampton
Players under contract
Lee Burge, Tyler Magloire, Aaron McGowan, Jack Sowerby, Jon Guthrie, Sam Sherring, Sam Hoskins, Ben Fox, Louis Appere, Danny Hylton, Mitch Pinnock, Will Hondermarck, Shaun McWilliams, Harvey Lintott, Akin Odimayo, Ryan Haynes, Josh Tomlinson, Peter Abimbola
Offered A New Contract
Ali Koiki, Max Dyche, Tom King
Players released
David Norman, Josh Harrop, Jonny Maxted, Paul Osew, Miguel Ngwa, Jack Connor, Liam Cross
Rochdale
Players under contract
Cameron John, Devante Rodney, Ethan Brierley, Ethan Ebanks-Landell, James Ball, Max Taylor, Richard O'Donnell, Tahvon Campbell, Toby Mullarkey, Tyrese Sinclair.
Options triggered
Abraham Odoh, Bradley Kelly, Ian Henderson.
Contract discussions underway
Danny Lloyd, Jimmy Keohane, Liam Kelly, Sam Graham.
Players released
Aidy White, Jordan Scanlon, Rhys Bennett, Toumani Diagouraga.
Players returning to parent clubs
D'Mani Mellor, Femi Seriki, Jake Eastwood, Owen Dodgson, Scott Quigley.
Second-year scholars released
Anisio Jesus, Cameron Kyle, Ellis Craven, Jadel Yaduat, Joe Cunningham, Liam Anderson, Max Sutton, Paddy Watts, Paul Kyffin, Tom Lawless, Zak Greenwell.
Salford
Players under contract
Elliot Watt, Callum Hendry, Odin Bailey, Stevie Mallan, Matt Smith, Kevin Berkoe, Luke Bolton, Ryan Leak, Callum Morton, Kelly Nmai, Marcus Dackers, Djavan Pedro, Theo Vassell.
Contract discussions underway
Ibou Touray, Ryan Watson, Matty Lund, Conor McAleny, Joel Torrance, Liam Shephard.
Players returning to parent clubs
Alex Cairns, Giosue Bellagambi, Ethan Galbraith, Louie Barry, Jack Jenkins.
Players released
Elliot Simões, Adrian Mariappa, James Melhado, Richard Nartey, Adam Porter, Matt Sargent, Josh O’Brien, Shane McLoughlin, Colin Oppong.
Under-18s offered deals
Ben Collins, Liam Humbles, Alfie Henderson, Jacob Lara, Markel Mancisidor, Jacob Hamman.
Under-18s released
Kyle Cooper, Stephen Padrao, Nathan Freckleton.
Stevenage
Players under contract
Kane Smith, Dan Sweeney, Carl Piergianni, Jordan Roberts, Jamie Reid, Elliott List, Danny Rose.
Contract discussions underway
Terence Vancooten, Luther James-Wildin, Jake Reeves, Jake Forster-Caskey, Josh March.
Players released
Adam Przybek, Michael Bostwick, Max Clark, Jake Taylor, Luke Norris.
Players returning to parent clubs
Jökull Andrésson, Taye Ashby-Hammond, Jonathan Tomkinson, Josh Reid, Alex Gilbey, Dean Campbell, Daryl Horgan.
Junior professionals released
Alfie Williams, Jack Smith, Mackye Townsend-West, Sam Tinubu.
Junior professionals retained
Theo Alexandrou, Rylee Mitchell, Harrison Smith.
Stockport
TBC
Sutton
Players released
Omar Bugiel, Will Randall, Cody Rowe, Donovan Wilson, Filip Chalupniczak, Roman Charles-Cook, Luke Gambin, Adam Lovatt, Matt Ridley, Kwame Thomas
Swindon
Players under contract
Ricky Aguiar, Conor Brann, Jake Cain, Tom Clayton, Ronan Darcy, Reece Devine, Marcel Lavinier, Harrison Minturn, Tyrese Shade, Jacob Wakeling, Tomi Adeloye, Frazer Blake-Tracy, Remeao Hutton, Ellis Iandolo, Saidou Khan, Charlie Austin
Promoted to first-team
Anton Dworzak
Players released
Cian Harries, Mo Dabre, Harry Parsons, George Cowmeadow, Oscar Massey, Jonny Williams, Morgan Roberts, Mathieu Baudry
Offered a new contract
Tom Brewitt
Contract extension triggered
George McEachran, Rushian Hepburn-Murphy
Players returning to parent clubs
Sol Brynn, Luke Jephcott, Ciaran Brennan, Joe Tomlinson, Dylan Kadji
Tranmere
Players under contract
Tom Davies, Jordan Turnbull, Ethan Bristow, Ben Hockenhull, Kieron Morris, Brad Walker, Paul Lewis, Lee O’Connor, Reece McAlear, Josh Hawkes, Rhys Hughes, Harvey Saunders, Kane Hemmings, Charlie Jolley, Sam Taylor
Contract discussions underway
Josh Dacres-Cogley, Chris Merrie, Joe Murphy
Players released
Jake Burton, Mat Hewelt, Joel Mumbongo, Kyle Jameson, Jon Nolan, Flo Hoti, Ryan Stratulis, Max Fisher, Arthur Lomax, Jack Williams
Players returning to parent clubs
Regan Hendry, Logan Chalmers, Jay Turner-Cooke, Paul Glatzel, Luke Robinson
Walsall
Players under contract
Jamille Matt, Ronan Maher, Joe Riley, Isaac Hutchinson, Tom Knowles, Liam Gordon, Brandon Comley, Oisin McEntee, Donervon Daniels, Owen Evans, Rollin Menayese
Players released
Liam Kinsella, Conor Wilkinson, Andy Williams, Jacob Maddox, Peter Clarke, Timmy Abraham, Joss Labadie, Manny Monthe, Hayden White, Sam Perry, Jonas Mukuna
Offered a new contract
Joe Foulkes, Jack Earing
Contract discussions underway
Taylor Allen
Offered a first professional contract
Marvellous Onabirekhanlen
Players returning to parent clubs
Douglas James-Taylor, Mat Stevens, Robbie Willmott, Yann Songo’o, Joe Low, Jackson Smith