diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ff2c124eafd63..12be131ac8e59 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 - Add Metric Base Classes ([#1326](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1326), [#1877](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1877))
 
-- Added type hints in `Trainer.fit()` and `Trainer.test()` to reflect that also a list of dataloaders can be passed in ([#1723](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1723)).
+- Added type hints in `Trainer.fit()` and `Trainer.test()` to reflect that also a list of dataloaders can be passed in ([#1723](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1723))
+
+- Allow dataloaders without sampler field present ([#1907](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1907))
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/training_loop.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/training_loop.py
index 576ecfb5973b5..61358731f796f 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/training_loop.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/training_loop.py
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ def train(self):
                     self.reset_train_dataloader(model)
                 # set seed for distributed sampler (enables shuffling for each epoch)
                 if (self.use_ddp or self.use_horovod) \
+                        and hasattr(self.train_dataloader, 'sampler') \
                         and hasattr(self.train_dataloader.sampler, 'set_epoch'):
                     self.train_dataloader.sampler.set_epoch(epoch)