As the season continues to edge closer today we take a look at another side the Hatters will face in 2009/10 - another ex-Football League club: Mansfield Town.

Nickname: The Stags

Manager: David Holdsworth

Ground: Field Mill

Last season: Conference 12th

2008/09 average attendance: 2,423

2009/10 BSP title odds: 14/1

Previous meetings:

Luton wins: 5

Mansfield wins: 9

Draws: 5

The Town's record against Mansfield is not particularly wonderful, winning just nine of 16 meetings in the Football League and five in the 18 league and cup clashes between the two sides.

When the Hatters travel to Field Mill on 24th November they will be looking for their first victory in the league at the Nottinghamshire venue.

Although the Town triumphed 4-3 in a League Cup Second Leg meeting at Field Mill in 1989, in the eight league meetings between the two sides at Mansfield the Hatters have lost six and drawn twice.

One thing is for sure is that there are always plenty of goals when the two sides meet. In fact in the last six matches between the two teams 39 goals have been scored - an average of six-and-a-half goals a game!

It rained goals the last time the Hatters beat the Stags on Easter Monday 1st April 2002 - just two days after the Town clinched promotion at Swansea City - when Joe Kinnear's side ran out 5-3 winners.

Mansfield have won twice at Kenilworth Road but were on the losing side in September 1968 when the Hatters' Graham French scored one of the greatest goals in the Town's history during the 4-2 win.

Recent history:

Mansfield will be starting their second season in the Conference this summer following their relegation from the Football League in 2007/08 which ended their 77-year stay among the 92 clubs.

Last season David Holdsworth - who took over in December - the Stags finished in 12th place in the table enjoying a fine home record but finding it difficult to earn results on their travels.

In fact they broke a club record by keeping six consecutive clean sheets.

The club were deducted four points by the Conference last season for fielding an ineligible player in their opening two games of the campaign in which they won and drew.

The Field Mill faithful last tasted success when winning promotion along with the Town in 2001/02 finishing in third place earning promotion to the then Division 2.

They only lasted one season in Division 2 before relegation back to the League's basement division - only for them to lose in the play-off final at the Millennium Stadium against Huddersfield Town on their first season back in Division 3 in 2003/04.

FACT: When the Stags were up for sale in 2008, one bidder, John Batchelor, planned to rename the club Harchester United - the name of the team featured on Sky One's football soap Dream Team.

Official website: www.mansfieldtown.net

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