page_title: List of Luton Town F.C. records and statistics
section_title: Football pyramid
hierarchical_section_title: List of Luton Town F.C. records and statistics / Honours and achievements / Football pyramid
caption_attribution_description: English: Luton Town players and staff celebrate with the Conference Premier championship trophy at Kenilworth Road on 21 April 2014, having won the division
context_page_description: Luton Town Football Club is an English professional football club based in Luton, Bedfordshire. The club was founded in 1885 and became the first professional club in southern England in 1891. Luton Town have played at all professional levels of English football and are currently contesting the 2017–18 season in the third tier, League One. Luton Town have been Football League members for 94 seasons: from 1897 to 1900; from 1920 to 2009, and from 2014 to the present day.
  The record for most games played for the club is held by Bob Morton, who made 562 appearances between 1946 and 1964. Gordon Turner scored 276 goals during his Luton Town career, and is the club's record goalscorer. Mal Donaghy made 58 appearances for Northern Ireland and so is the Luton Town player who has gained the most caps while with the club. The highest transfer fee paid by the club is the £850,000 paid to Odense Boldklub for Lars Elstrup in 1989, and the highest fees received are the £3,000,000 paid by West Bromwich Albion and Birmingham City for Curtis Davies and Rowan Vine in 2005 and 2007 respectively. The highest attendance recorded at Kenilworth Road was 30,069 for the visit of Blackpool in 1959.
context_section_description: Football League First Division (tier 1)
  Best finish: seventh, 1986–87
  Football League Second Division (tier 2)
  Champions: 1981–82
  Runners-up: 1954–55, 1973–74
  Football League Third Division (tier 3)
  Champions: 1936–37 (South), 2004–05, 2018–19
  Runners-up: 1935-36 (South), 1969-70
  Football League Fourth Division / Football League Third Division (tier 4)
  Champions: 1967–68
  Runners-up: 2001-02, 2017–18
  Conference Premier (tier 5)
  Champions: 2013–14
  Luton Town were the first club to be relegated from the top division to the fourth (relegated from First Division in 1959–60, started playing in Fourth Division in 1965–66) and then subsequently win promotion back to the top flight (promoted from Fourth Division in 1968–69 and started playing in First Division in 1974–75).
caption: Ronnie Henry lifts the Conference Premier championship trophy at the end of the 2013–14 season
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