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Luton Town F.C. are a professional English football team based in the town of Luton. They are nicknamed The Hatters due to the historical association of the town with the hat making trade. They currently play in Football League One.1 History
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. Luton made their only appearance in the FA Cup final in 1959 losing to Nottingham Forest. They were relegated in the 1959- 60Events January-February January 1 Independence of Cameroon January 9 Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 11 Chad declares its independence. January 14 Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire. January 23 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.
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They were relegated from the top division in 1992, went bankrupt in 1998, lost their controversial owner David Kohler and fell to the Third Division for the 2001-02 season. Under the management of Joe Kinnear the club rallied and placed second in the division in 2001-02, gaining automatic promotion back to the Second Division. In 2002-03 the team consolidated their place in the Second Division, finishing ninth.
