Luton stay in bottom three after draw with Everton (2024)

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Luton Town missed the chance to move out of the Premier League's relegation places as they were held to a draw against Everton at Kenilworth Road

The club was docked 30 points at the start of the season; 10 by The Football Association for irregular matters involving player transfers, and 20 by the Football League for breaking rules on exiting administration. As a result, the club finished bottom of the league and were relegated to the Conference Premier.

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However, the points deductions proved too much and relegation out of the Football League was confirmed on Easter Monday. The club started life in the Blue Square Premier in 2009/10 after 89 years in the Football League.

Luton Town were relegated from the Football League in 2009 after failing to recover from the 30-point deduction imposed upon them at the start of the campaign.

Even after this growth, debt in the football club remains fairly low. However, there is much more debt in the holding company, adding up to £39m as at the end of June 2022 (the 2023 accounts have not yet been published). This included £34m of loan notes to fund the group's development projects, mainly the new stadium.

Pop sensation Harry Styles was a surprise guest at Kenilworth Road as Luton Town faced Manchester United at the weekend. The Cheshire-born star, who is a United fan, was spotted eating mints and laughing with former Luton players.

Luton Town technically have never played in the Premier League. They got relegated from the top division during the 1991-92 campaign, just the season before the Premier League was started. Since getting relegated in 1992, the Hatters could never get promoted back to the top tier again.

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Honours and achievements

Luton Town have won some major honours in English football. The club reached its first major final in 1959, when the team reached the FA Cup Final, and the 1988 Football League Cup Final was the side's first major cup victory.

Luton is believed to have been founded by the Anglo-Saxons sometime in the 6th century. Its name first appears in the 8th century as Lygetun, meaning "town on the River Lea". The Domesday Book records Luton as Loitone and as Lintone.

Last season, all three promoted teams staved off relegation for the first time since 2018. It was Luton's first year in the top flight since the 1991-92 campaign — the last season before the Premier League was founded.

The league handed down its most punitive sanction yet and, with the Football Association's 10-point sanction for irregularities in the club's transfer dealings already applying, the club's stay in the Football League looks doomed.

Resurgence and fall to non-League (1992–2009)

The club was relegated from the top division at the end of the 1991–92 season, and sank to the third tier four years later. Luton stayed in the third-tier Second Division until relegation at the end of the 2000–01 season.

Luton Town's relegation from the Premier League was confirmed following a 4-2 defeat by Fulham at Kenilworth Road.

Initially deducted 10 points by the FA for financial irregularities when dealing with agents dating back several years, Luton were then deducted a further 20 , the most severe punishment handed out by the Football League, because of a failure to secure an insolvency agreement that satisfied HMRC.

Luton Town Football Club was formed on 11 April 1885. Before this there were many clubs in the town, the most prominent of which were Luton Wanderers and Luton Excelsior. A Wanderers player, George Deacon, came up with the idea of a 'Town' club which would include all the best players in Luton.

Indeed, you can go back more than 100 years for one of the first incidents, while the punishment is a drop in the ocean compared to the 30 points Luton Town - now in the Premier League - were hit with back in 2008 that ultimately saw them drop out of the Football League.

Lockyer was fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator after he was hospitalised for five days. Reliving the incident, Lockyer, who also suffered a collapse during May's Championship play-off victory against Coventry, told Sky Sports: "I literally died but I have been numb to the whole thing since.