page_title: List of Luton Town F.C. records and statistics
section_title: Goals
hierarchical_section_title: List of Luton Town F.C. records and statistics / Player records / Goals
caption_attribution_description: Steve Howard, Derby County player.
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: Most goals in a season: Joe Payne; with 58 during the 1936–37 season (including 55 league goals).
  Most goals in a match: Joe Payne; with 10 in match versus Bristol Rovers on 13 April 1936, which remains to this day, a Football League record.
caption: Steve Howard was the club's top goalscorer for five seasons in a row—2001–02 to 2005–06.
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