Nottingham Forest travel to the National Hockey Stadium on Wednesday night for their third pre-season game.
The two sides met twice in the league last season, with the Dons 1-0 home win at the end of January marking one of the low points of Gary Megson's reign.
Relegation followed though for MK but despite that better times look to be ahead for the club formerly known as Wimbledon.
Martin Allen was a surprise appointment to take over from Danny Wilson as manager given the fact that he had been linked with a number of jobs in the Championship in recent seasons and he seems to have been handed some money to spend to lift the Dons out of League Two at the first attempt.
The former Brenford boss has already snapped up Drissa Diallo and Jon-Paul McGovern from Sheffield Wednesday this summer, while star striker Izale McLeod remains at the club.