Nahki Wells’s Luton Town are searching for a new head coach after sacking Matt Bloomfield following defeat to League One leaders Stevenage Borough on Saturday.

Bloomfield left Wycombe Wanderers to become Luton boss in January but was unable to save them from a second successive relegation as they finished 22nd in the Sky Championship, dropping a division on goal difference.

Luton made a promising start to the 2025-26 campaign with three wins in their first four games, but they have lost four of their last seven since, with last Saturday’s 2-0 defeat away to Stevenage sealing Bloomfield’s fate.

Academy coach and former Luton player Alex Lawless has taken over the helm of the team on an interim basis, while Bloomfield's assistant Richard Thomas, first-team coach Lee Harrison and analyst Ben Cirne have also left the club, who are eleventh in the league and three points adrift of the play-off positions.

Bermuda captain Wells, who is poised to wear the captain’s armband in the national team’s crucial World Cup qualifier against Trinidad & Tobago at Flora Duffy Stadium on Friday, came off the bench in the 80th minute during Saturday’s defeat away to Stevenage.

Elsewhere in League One last Saturday, Nathan Trott and his Cardiff City team-mates got back to winning ways after edging Leyton Orient 4-3 in front of their own fans at Cardiff City Stadium.

The Bermudian goalkeeper was up to his usual heroics between the sticks as the home team came out on top of this evenly fought seven-goal League One thriller.

Trott produced two early saves to deny the visitors Aaron Connolly and Omar Beckles, the Leyton captain, before Callum Robinson scored the first of his two goals to put Cardiff ahead on 20 minutes.

However, their lead was short-lived as Aaron Connolly equalised nine minutes later to leave the game deadlocked at 1-1 at the half.

Cardiff regained the lead through Dylan Lawlor’s 52nd minute strike but their advantage was again brief as Idris El Mizouni brought the teams level two minutes later.

Trott and his fellow team-mates were forced to chase the game for the first time after Dom Ballard put Leyton ahead in the 61st minute.

However, the home side battled on and were ultimately rewarded as substitute Yousef Salech and Robinson scored two unanswered goals in the space of two minutes to secure the points.

Cardiff are third in the League One table, two points adrift of leaders Stevenage.