Luton manager
John Still had joined the club in February 2013 at a time when promotion from the
Conference Premier looked unlikely following a poor run of league results under previous manager
Paul Buckle. Still guided the club to a seventh-placed finish in its fourth season in non-League football. He began building his own squad a month before the last game of the
2012–13 campaign, continuing to do so through pre-season and the beginning of the
2013–14 season, with twelve new players entering
Kenilworth Road and eleven leaving. A slow start to the 2013–14 season left the club in mid-table, but this soon gave way to a club-record 27-match unbeaten run with Luton playing an attacking style of football that resulted in them scoring 78 goals. The club reached the top of the table in December 2013 and Still ensured momentum through the busy post-Christmas schedule by augmenting the squad with talented young players from
Premier League academies, such as
Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu and
Cameron McGeehan. Luton remained in first position for the rest of the campaign as they comfortably won promotion to
League Two, with nearest rivals
Cambridge United 19 points behind – the largest points gap between first and second in Conference history. The club accumulated 101 points and kept 23
clean sheets, both club records, while also equalling the record for the fewest goals (35) conceded over a season. ==Club==