In this article, we take a look at a list of League Two and National League free agents released by clubs following the 2023/24 season.
Teams will be looking to strengthen and replace those injured or in need of a boost with some names looking to secure themselves a new club to call home for the foreseeable future.
Below are the retained lists are being released across the four tier, which will see a flood of free agents into the summer transfer market.
Check out the list, compiled with the help of each club, various media outlets, tweets and The Deck (League Two) and (National League)…
NATIONAL LEAGUE FREE AGENTS
AFC Wimbledon
Under Contract:James Ball, Omar Bugiel, Josh Davison, Ryan Johnson, Josh Kelly, Joe Lewis, Paris Lock, Ryan McLean, Josh Neufville, Will Nightingale, Isaac Ogundere, Jake Reeves, Aron Sasu, James Tilley, Morgan Williams
Contract Option Triggered:Jack Currie
Offered New Deal:Huseyin Biler, Lee Brown, Armani Little, Ethan Sutcliffe
In Negotiations:Ronan Curtis
Offered Professional Deal:Kai Jennings, Harry Sidwell, Leo Young
Returning To Parent Club:Kofi Balmer, Alex Bass, John-Kymani Gordon, John-Joe O’Toole
Released:Quaine Bartley, Marcel Campbell, Josh Hallard, Paul Kalambayi, Ben Mason, Alex Pearce, Harry Pell, Zach Robinson, Nik Tzanev
Accrington Stanley
Under Contract:Jay Rich-Baghuelou, Seb Quirk, and Alex Henderson.
Contract Option Triggered:Liam Coyle, Ben Woods, Tommy Leigh, Oliver Patrick, Dan Martin, Aaron Pickles, Lewis Trickett, and Josh Woods.
Offered New Deals:Toby Savin, Shaun Whalley, Joe Pritchard, Rosaire Longelo (set to leave), Jack Nolan (signed for Gillingham), Seamus Conneely, and Connor O’Brien.
Invited Back For Pre-Season:Liam Isherwood and Emerich Poilly.
Released:Kelvin Mellor, Matt Lowe, Sean McConville, Baba Fernandes, Bailey Sloane, Leslie Adekoya, Jack Massey, Korede Adedoyin, and Jack McIntyre.
Returning To Parent Club:Lewis Shipley, Brad Hills, Joe Gubbins, Jake Bickerstaff, and Radek Vitek.
Barrow
Under Contract:Mazeed Ogungbo, Dean Campbell, David Worrall, Kian Spence, Ged Garner, Robbie Gotts, Dom Telford, Emile Acquah.
Contract Option Triggered:Sean Etaluku, Junior Tiensia, Niall Canavan, Elliot Newby, Paul Farman.
InNegotiations:James Chester and Ben Whitfield.
Released:George Ray, Jamie Proctor, Tom White, Courtney Duffus, Sam Foley, Tyrell Warren, Rory Feely, Owen Bray, Malakai Reeve, Sam Bellis.
Talks Over Coaching Role:Josh Lillis
Bradford City
Released:Dylan Youmbi,Finn Cousin-Dawson,Harry Chapman,Harvey Rowe,Heath Richardson,Isaac Robinson,Liam Ridehalgh,Luke Hendrie,Matt Derbyshire,Noah Wadsworth,Sam Bentley
Contract Option Triggered:Bobby Pointon,Brad Halliday,Richie Smallwood,Sam Stubbs
Offered New Deal:Colin Doyle (will also remain men’s first team goalkeeping coach),Jamie Walker,Matty Platt (left for Notts County)
Under Contract:Adam Wilson,Alex Gilliead, Alex Pattison,Andy Cook,Ash Taylor,Calum Kavanagh,Ciarán Kelly, Clarke Oduor, Jake Young, Kevin McDonald, Lewis Richards, Sam Walker, Timi Odusina, Tyler Smith, Vadaine Oliver
Returned To Parent Club:Daniel Oyegoke (Brentford),Jonathan Tomkinson (Norwich City),Tyreik Wright (Plymouth Argyle)
Colchester United
Released:Sam Hornby, Tom Dallison, John Akinde, Marley Marshall Miranda, Donell Thomas, Harry Beadle, Gene Kennedy, Ronnie Nelson, Ted Collins, Ryan Lowe, T’Aizo Marcel-Dilaver, Kaan Bennett, Jet Dyer, Kennedy Mupomba, Byan Aman, Matt Yates
Offered New Deal:Noah Chilvers, Cameron McGeehan, Chay Cooper, Al-Amin Kazeem, Harrison Chamberlain, Frankie Edwards, Max Jolliffe, Milton Oni
Returning To Parent Club:Owen Goodman, Zach Mitchell, Harry Anderson, Riley Harbottle, Jayden Richardson, Alistair Smith
Under Contract:Will Greenidge, Ellis Iandolo, Fiacre Kelleher, Connor Hall, Matt Jay, Conor Wilkinson, Samson Tovide, Owura Edwards, Tom Smith, Tom Hopper, Arthur Read, Mandela Egbo, Jay Mingi, Jayden Fevrier, Bradley Ihionvien, Oscar Thorn (Option Taken), Frankie Terry (Option Taken), Oliver Godziemski, Kaleel Green, Archie Oliver, Hakeem Sandah
Crawley Town
Contract Option Triggered:Corey Addai, Danilo Orsi
In Talks:Adam Campbell, Will Wright, Nick Tsaroulla, Jeremy Kelly, Kellan Gordon, Jack Roles, Ben Gladwin
Released:Jed Brown, Travis Johnson, Tobi Omole, Florian Kastrati, Jayden Davis, Harry Ransom, Roshan Greensall
Returning To Parent Club:Laurence Maguire (signed for MK Dons), Mustpha Olagunju
Under Contract:Harry Forster, Joy Mukena, Liam Kelly, Jay Williams, Ade Adeyemo, Ronan Darcy, Dion Conroy, Ryan Sandford, Raf Khaleel, Sonny Fish, Klaidi Lolos
Crewe Alexandra
Offered New Deal:Courtney Baker-Richardson, Christopher Long, Elliott Nevitt, Luke Offord and Rio Adebisi.
Option triggered:Zac Williams.
Released:Charlie Kolkett, Zak Kempster-Down, Charlie Kirk, Billy Sass-Davies and Max Woodco*ck.
Scholars offered professional contracts:Nathan Robinson and Lucas Sant.
Returning toparent club:Josh Austerfield, Harvey Davies, Lewis Leigh, Aaron Rowe, Max Stryjek and Ed Turns
Doncaster Rovers
Under Contract:Tom Anderson, Owen Bailey, George Broadbent, Jack Goodman, Kyle Hurst, Joe Ironside, Louis Jones, Ian Lawlor, Jay McGrath, George Miller, Joseph Olowu, Jack Senior, Jamie Sterry
Signed New Deal:Ben Close, James Maxwell, Zain Westbrooke, Richard Wood
Offered New Deal:Hakeeb Adelakun, Harrison Biggins, Luke Molyneux (signed new deal)
Transfer Listed:Deji Sotona
Released:Maxime Biamou , Ben Bottomley, Caolan Lavery, Liam Ravenhill, Tommy Rowe, Charlie Seaman, Jon Taylor
Option Triggered:Jack Degruchy, Bobby Faulkner, Tavonga Kuleya
Returning To Parent Club:Hakeeb Adelakun, Conor Carty, Matthew Craig, Thimothée Lo-Tutala, Tom Nixon, Billy Waters
Forest Green Rovers
Under Contract:Harvey Bunker, Charlie McCann, Tyrese Omotoye, Fiachra Pagel, Amadou Bakayoko, Kyle McAllister, Jamie Robson, Marcel Lavinier, Ryan Inniss, Christian Doidge, Alfie Bendle, Jordan Moore-Taylor, Jamie Searle, Emmanuel Osadebe, Jacob Maddox and Teddy Jenks.
Released:Nathan Holland, Dom Bernard, Darnell Johnson, Mathew Stevens, Jordon Garrick, Sean Robertson, Alex Gorrin, Fankaty Dabo, David Davis, Reece Brown, Richard Keogh, Luke Daniels, Jack Carter, Finley Bell. Murphy Bennett
Returned To Parent Club:Dom Thompson, Callum Jones, Tommy Simkin and Vicente Reyes.
Gillingham
Offered New Deal:Dom Jefferies, Glenn Morris
Released:Shaun Williams, Ike Orji, Matty MacArthur, Macaulay Bonne, Ronald Sithole, Josh Chambers, Kieron Agbebi, Nathan Harvey
Transfer Listed:Scott Malone, Ashley Nadesan, George Lapslie, Oliver Hawkins
Returning To Parent Club:Connor Mahoney, Josh Walker, Jorge Hurtado
Under Contract:Max Clark, Conor Masterson, Max Ehmer, George Lapslie, Jonny Williams, Josh Andrews, Ashley Nadesan, Oliver Hawkins, Scott Malone, Robbie McKenzie, Jayden Clarke, Ethan Coleman, Shad Ogie, Remeao Hutton, Jake Turner, Joe Gbode, Tim Dieng, Sam Gale, Alex Giles
Grimsby Town
Under Contract:Jake Eastwood, Toby Mullarkey, Harvey Rodgers, Doug Tharme, Evan Khouri, Curtis Thompson, Charles Vernam, Donovan Wilson, Rekeil Pyke, Danny Rose, Alex Hunt, Cameron Gardner, Harvey Cribb
Contract Option Triggered:Kieran Green
In Negotiations:Harry Clifton (signed new deal), Denver Hume and Callum Ainley.
Released:Harvey Tomlinson, Edwin Essel, Aaron Braithwaite, Jamie Bramwell, Niall Maher, Anthony Glennon, Abo Eisa, Arthur Gnahoua, Gavan Holohan, Otis Khan, Danny Amos
Returned To Parent Club:Liam Smith (Cheltenham Town), Jamie Andrews (West Bromwich Albion), Harvey Cartwright (Hull City), Harry Wood (Hull City), Justin Obikwu (Coventry City)
Harrogate Town
Returned to parent club:Derrick Abu, Tom Bloxham and Jeremy Sivi
Retained:
Mark Oxley, Josh Falkingham, Warren Burrell, George Thomson, Dean Cornelius, Abraham Odoh, Matty Daly, James Daly, Sam Folarin, Toby Sims, Anthony O’Connor, Rod McDonald, Jack Muldoon, Matty Foulds, Josh March, Liam Gibson, James Belshaw and James Moorby.
Offered contracts:
Stephen Dooley and Levi Sutton
Released:
Lewis Thomas, Jonathan Mitchell, Joe Mattock, Will Smith, Pete Jameson, George Horbury, Finn O’Boyle, Brad Williams and Emmanuel Ilesanmi, Alex Mooney, Cadarn Taylor, Lewis Smalley, Ollie Nicholson, Alfie Lee, Josh Brodella and Elijah Samuels.
Mansfield Town
Under Contract:Hiram Boateng, Jordan Bowery, Baily Cargill, Scott Flinders, Aden Flint, Elliott Hewitt, Davis Keillor-Dunn, Alfie Kilgour, Aaron Lewis, Calum Macdonald, Tom Nichols, Christy Pym, Louis Reed, Will Swan, Anthony Núñez
Options Triggered:George Williams, McKeal Abdullah, Charlie Carter, Finn Flanagan, Jakub Kruszynski, Darien Wauchope
In Talks:Lucas Akins, Ollie Clarke, James Gale, George Maris, Stephen McLaughlin, Rhys Oates, Stephen Quinn, Taylor Anderson, George Cooper, Owen Mason
Returned To Parent Club:Lewis Brunt (Leicester City)
Released:Anthony Hartigan, Callum Johnson, John-Joe O’Toole, Louie Turner
MK Dons
Retained:Joel Anker, Darragh Burns, Max Dean, Matthew Dennis, Dawson Devoy, Alex Gilbey, Conor Grant, Nathan Harness, Ellis Harrison, Daniel Harvie, Brooklyn Llunga, Jonathan Leko, Dean Lewington, Craig MacGillivray, Cameron Norman, Ronnie Sandford, Phoenix Sholtz, Joe Tomlinson, Callum Tripp, Jack Tucker, Charlie Waller, Stephen Wearne, MK Williams
Pro Contracts:Seb Stavey, Charlie Stirland, Albert Wood
Released:Mo Eisa, Michael Kelly, Dan Kemp, Ethan Robson, Warren O’Hora
Returning To Parent Club:Lewis Bate, Kyran Lofthouse, Filip Marschall, Jack Payne, Anthony Stewart, Emre Tezgel
Morecambe
Under contract:Charlie Brown, Gwion Edwards, Stuart Moore.
Contract Option Triggered:Kayden Harrack.
Professional contract accepted:Saul Fox-Akande.
Offered New Deal:JJ McKiernan.
Rejected New Deal:Farrend Rawson, David Tutonda, Donald Love, Joel Senior.
Released:Adam Smith, Jacob Bedeau, Chris Stokes, Max Melbourne, Oscar Threlkeld, Jacob Davenport, Yann Songo’o, Jake Taylor, Brandon Barker, Cammy Smith, Jordy Hiwula, Jordan Slew.
Returning To Parent Club:Archie Mair, Nelson Khumbeni, Joe Adams, Ged Garner, Julian Larsson.
Newport County
Released:Joe Day, Declan Drysdale, Omar Bogle, Offrande Zanzala, James Waite, Jonny Maxted, Harrison Bright, Sam Bowen
In Talks:Ryan Delaney, Scott Bennett, Harry Charsley, Aaron Wildig
Option Triggered:Will Evans
Returned To Parent Club:Lewis Payne, Adam Lewis, Oliver Thomas, Matt Baker, Seb Palmer-Houlden, Matthew Bondswell
Notts County
Under Contract:Sam Slocombe, Tiernan Brooks, Kyle Cameron, Lewis Macari, Lucien Mahovo, Adam Chicksen, Jodi Jones, Aaron Nemane, Matt Palmer, Scott Robertson, Dan Crowley, Sam Austin, James Sanderson, Macaulay Langstaff, David McGoldrick, Junior Morias, Alassana Jatta
Contract Option Triggered:Cedwyn Scott
Offered New Deal:Geraldo Bajrami
Transfer Listed:Aidan Stone, Connell Rawlinson, Will Randall
Released:Aden Baldwin, Richard Brindley, Tobi Adebayo, Jim O’Brien, John Bostock, Luther Munakandafa
Returned To Parent Club:Luca Ashby-Hammond, Jaden Warner, Charlie Colkett
Salford City
Released:Elliot Watt, Matt Smith, Adrian Mariappa, Stevie Mallan, Connor McLennan, Djavan Pedro and Joel Torrance.
Returning to parent club:Ethan Ingram and Dec John.
Stockport County
Under Contract:Ethan Pye, Neill Byrne, Jack Stretton, Akil Wright, Fraser Horsfall, Kyle Knoyle, Ibby Touray, Callum Camps, Will Collar, Odin Bailey, Nick Powell, Isaac Olaofe, Kyle Wootton, Ashton Mee, Jidechi Okeke, Cody Johnson
Released:Todd Kane, Ryan Croasdale, Myles Hippolyte, Jordan Smith, Bobby Jones, Taylor McMahon, Christian Mulindwa, Paddy Madden (signed for Chesterfield)
In Talks:Ryan Rydel(Now Signed New Contract), Ben Hinchliffe, Macauley Southam Hales, Connor Lemonheigh Evans, Antoni Sarcevic
Returned To Parent Club:Ben Knight, Rhys Bennett, Lewis Cass, Louie Barry, Rico Richards, Ethan Bristow
Sutton United
Released: Craig Eastmond, Craig Dundas, Harry Beautyman, Rob Milsom, Jon Barden, Lee Angol, Tope Fadahunsi, Brad House, Scott Kashket, Ollie Khinda, Deon Moore, Christian N’Guessan and Tobi Ogundega
Return to their Parent Club:Nino Adom-Malaki, Dean Bouzanis, Stephen Duke-McKenna, Charlie Lakin and Olly Sanderson
Offered New Deals:Steve Arnold, Sam Hart and Matt Kerbey
Swindon Town
Under Contract:Ricky Aguiar,Jake Cain,Aaron Drinan,Anton Dworzak,Pharrell Johnson,Harrison Minturn,Tariq Uwakwe
Contract Option Triggered:Jack Bycroft,Paul Glatzel,Udoka Godwin-Malife,Saidou Khan,Williams Kokolo
Offered New Deal:Sean McGurk,Nnamdi Ofoborh
Released:Charlie Austin,Tomi Adeloye,Frazer Blake-Tracy,Conor Brann,Tom Brewitt,Tom Clayton,Reece Devine,Brooklyn Genesini,Rushian Hepburn-Murphy,George McEachran,Tyrese Shade
Returning To Parent Club:Dawson Devoy (MK Dons),Zach Elbouzedi (AIK),Harry McKirdy (Hibernian),Conor McCarthy (Barnsley)
Tranmere Rovers
Under Contract:Luke McGee, Joe Murphy, Lee O’Connor, Tom Davies, Connor Wood, Brad Walker, Regan Hendry, Josh Hawkes, Kieron Morris, Harvey Saunders, Sam Taylor, Kristian Dennis and Connor Jennings
Contract Options/Clauses Triggered:Jordan Turnbull and Chris Merrie
In Negotiations:Luke Norris
Returning To Parent Club:Rob Apter, James Norris and Jake Leake.
Released:Jean Belehouan, Mikey Davies, Ben Hockenhull, Rhys Hughes, Charlie Jolley, Ousmane Kane, Luis Lacey, Paul Lewis, Reece McAlear, Dan Pike, Conor Robson, Joe Starbuck and Joe Yarney
Walsall
Under Contract:Brandon Comley,Donervon Daniels,Jack Earing,Preistley Farquharson,Liam Gordon,Isaac Hutchinson,Jamie Jellis,Danny Johnson,Ronan Maher,Oisin McEntee,Ryan Stirk,Evan Weir
Released:Owen Evans,Rollin Menayese,Aramide Oteh,Joe Riley
Contract Option Triggered:Taylor Allen, Douglas James-TaylorandHarry Williams.
Signed New Deal:Jamille Matt
Offered New Deal:Jackson Smith
In Talks:Tom KnowlesandJoe Foulkes.
Wrexham
Released:Aaron Hayden (signed for Carlisle),Rob Lainton,Callum McFadzean,Ben Tozer (signed for Forest Green),Jordan Tunnicliffe,Luke Young,Owen Cushion,Dan Davies, Max Hayes, Michael Hayman, Jack Pilkington, Jake Roberts, Dan Wright
Offered New Deal:Steven Fletcher,Mark Howard,Aaron James, Harry Dean,
Contract Option Triggered:James McClean, Harry Ashfield, Callum Edwards, Liam Hall, James Rainbird
Decision Pending:Scott Butler
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