History_of_motorcycle_speedway_in_Sweden
History of motorcycle speedway in Sweden
Speedway in Sweden
The History of motorcycle speedway in Sweden consists of the league tables of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.[1]
The first season was in 1948 but it was during the 1950s motorcycle speedway became one of Sweden's most popular team sports where each fixture drew audiences between 10,000 and 20,000 people.[2][3]
The Swedish Speedway Team Championship was founded a few years earlier in 1948 and was inspired by British speedway including adopting the British teams nicknames in Swedish versions. For instance the Norrköping team became Vargarna (English: "The Wolves"), the Eskilstuna team became Smederna (English: "The Blacksmiths") and the club Motorsällskapet became Getingarna (English: "The Wasps"). As popularity of the sport grew there were many new clubs founded all around Sweden and during the 1950s more than 30 different clubs competed at least one season in the league system.[4] Some of these teams were short lived and only survived a few years but some continue to compete in the Elitserien and Allsvenskan today.
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1948 Main article: 1948 Swedish speedway season
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1950 Main article: 1950 Swedish speedway season
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1960 Main article: 1960 Swedish speedway season
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1970 Main article: 1970 Swedish speedway season
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1980 Main article: 1980 Swedish speedway season
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1984 Main article: 1984 Swedish speedway season
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1986 Main article: 1986 Swedish speedway season
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1990 Main article: 1990 Swedish speedway season
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2000 Main article: 2000 Swedish speedway season
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2010 Main article: 2010 Swedish speedway season
2011 Main article: 2011 Swedish speedway season
2012 Main article: 2012 Swedish speedway season
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2014 Main article: 2014 Swedish speedway season
2015 Main article: 2015 Swedish speedway season
2016 Main article: 2016 Swedish speedway season
2017 Main article: 2017 Swedish speedway season
2018 Main article: 2018 Swedish speedway season
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2020 Main article: 2020 Swedish speedway season
2021 Main article: 2021 Swedish speedway season
2022 Main article: 2022 Swedish speedway season
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- "Swedish Speedway Team Championship (Swedish Team Championship)". History of Speedway. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
- Vargarna Speedway (2007). "Vargarna Speedway" (in Swedish). Vargarna Speedway. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved August 30, 2007.
- kaparna.nu. "Slottsskogsvallen -Kaparna Speedway" (in Swedish). kaparna.nu. Retrieved August 30, 2007.
- speedway.org. "History: Speedway and Longtrack". speedway.org. Retrieved August 30, 2007.