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Luton Town

Luton Town Football Club are an English football team based in the town of Luton in Bedfordshire. They are nicknamed 'The Hatters' due to the historical association of the town with the hat making trade. more...

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They currently play in the Football League Championship after winning the Football League One title on April 23, 2005.

Their only piece of major silverware to date is the League Cup, which they won in 1988 under the management of Ray Harford.

Luton are one of a relatively small number of teams to have played in all four divisions of the Football League. Their most recent spell as a top division club ended in 1992, and they were in the league's lowest tier as recently as the 2001-02 season.

For some 20 years, Luton have been considering a move away from their cramped Kenilworth Road ground. In 2001 the club acquired a site near the M1 motorway but consent has yet to be given for any development.

History

Creation

Created by the merger of Luton Wanderers and Luton Excelsior in 1885, they were one of the founder members of the Southern League in 1894, and were the first professional football club in the South of England. They applied for membership of the Football League in 1896, joining in 1897 but resigned from the League in 1900 to re-join the Southern League. They moved to their Kenilworth Road grounds in 1905.

Rise and Fall

The Southern League became Division Three after World War I and Luton remained in that division for seventeen seasons. The team won promotion from the Second Division in 1954-55. Luton made their only appearance in the FA Cup final in 1959 losing to Nottingham Forest. They were relegated in the 1959-60 season, falling rapidly to the Fourth Division in the next few years. Recovery began in the 1967-68 season with the Fourth Division championship and was followed by a long spell mostly in the Second Division before winning that championship in 1981-82 under David Pleat.

The Ray Harford era

In the mid 1980s the club became famous for instituting an \"away fan ban\" following a pitch invasion and hooliganism by Millwall fans. The ban and associated membership scheme was the idea of then chairman David Evans. This led to the club being expelled from the League Cup in the 1986/7 season as they refused to relax the ban in order to allow Cardiff City fans to attend the two-legged tie.

The most successful years in the history of Luton Town F.C were the 1980s, beginning with the already-mentioned promotion to the First Division in 1982. Pleat maintained Luton's First Division status over the next four seasons before moving to Tottenham. He handed over the reins to coach John Moore, who guided Luton to a seventh-place finish before handing in his resignation and being replaced by Ray Harford.