Luton (disambiguation)

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Luton is a town and the largest settlement in Bedfordshire, England.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luton Town F.C.</span> Association football club in Luton, England

Luton Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Luton, Bedfordshire, England, that competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1885, it is nicknamed 'the Hatters' and affiliated to the Bedfordshire County Football Association. The team plays its home matches at Kenilworth Road, where it has been based since 1905. The club's history includes one major trophy win, several financial crises, numerous promotions and relegations, and some spells of sustained success. It was perhaps most prominent between 1982 and 1992, when it was a member of English football's top division, at that time the First Division; the team won its first major honour, the Football League Cup, in 1988. Luton Town have a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Watford.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luton</span> Town in Bedfordshire, England

Luton is a town and unitary authority with borough status, in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2021 census, the Luton/Dunstable urban area, including the adjacent towns of Dunstable and Houghton Regis, had a population of 286,450.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bedfordshire</span> Historic County of England

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Kenilworth Road is an association football stadium in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. It has been the home ground of Luton Town Football Club since 1905. The stadium has also hosted women's and youth international matches, including the second leg of the 1984 European Competition for Women's Football final.

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The old hymn and jazz tune "When the Saints Go Marching In" is used by a number of teams in various sports. It may be used as the team's theme song or reserved for when they scored. Liverpool fans used it as a football chant to honour their player Ian St John in the 1960s, a song that was also adopted by other clubs. Southampton Football Club, for example, use it as a football chant due to the fact that their nickname is The Saints, other football clubs use different variations of the song. It may be used with the standard lyrics, specialized lyrics, or no lyrics at all. When sung by a crowd, it is often started at a very slow tempo, around 70 beats per minute. The next verse is then dramatically sped up to somewhere around 140 beats per minute.

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Jake Thomas Howells is a former semi-professional footballer who played as a defender or a midfielder for Luton Town. He was capped by the England C team four times from 2009 to 2011 and has represented Wales at under-21 level.

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Luton Town Ladies Football Club is a professional women's association football club based in the town of Luton, Bedfordshire, England, that competes in the Eastern Region Women's Football League. The team was founded in 1997, play home matches at Stockwood Park Athletics Centre, and formed a partnership with its male counterpart Luton Town F.C. in 2000. It is affiliated with the Bedfordshire County Football Association.

The 2011–12 season was the 126th season in the history of Luton Town Football Club. Their third-place finish and subsequent penalty shoot-out loss to AFC Wimbledon in the Conference Premier play-off final in 2010–11 meant they competed in non-League football for the third consecutive year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fraser Franks</span> English professional footballer

Fraser George Franks is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender in the Football League for AFC Wimbledon, Luton Town, Stevenage and Newport County.

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