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. 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.
The Southern League became Division Three after WW I and Luton remained in that division for seventeen seasons. The team won promotion from the Second Division in 1954-55. They were relegated in the 1959-60 season and remained in the Second Division for a further fourteen seasons. Their glory seasons occured in the late 1980s, finishing seventh in 1986-87, visting Wembley? three times in the 1987-88 season, including a 3-2 victory over Arsenal F.C. in the FA Cup Final.
They were relegated from the top division in 1992, went bankrupt in 1998 and have fallen to the Third Division for the 2001-02 season.
Their stadium is the 9,975 seater Kenilworth Road Stadium, Maple Road, Luton?.
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