History of motorcycle speedway in Sweden explained

The History of motorcycle speedway in Sweden consists of the league tables of motorcycle speedway in Sweden.^[1]

History

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.

List of league champions

See main article: Swedish Speedway Team Championship.

List of individual champions

See main article: Swedish Individual Speedway Championship.

1940s

1948

See main article: 1948 Swedish speedway season.

1949

See main article: 1949 Swedish speedway season.

1950s

1950

See main article: 1950 Swedish speedway season.

1951

See main article: 1951 Swedish speedway season.

1952

See main article: 1952 Swedish speedway season.

1953

See main article: 1953 Swedish speedway season.

1954

See main article: 1954 Swedish speedway season.

1955

See main article: 1955 Swedish speedway season.

1956

See main article: 1956 Swedish speedway season.

1957

See main article: 1957 Swedish speedway season.

1958

See main article: 1958 Swedish speedway season.

1959

See main article: 1959 Swedish speedway season.

1960s

1960

See main article: 1960 Swedish speedway season.

1961

See main article: 1961 Swedish speedway season.

1962

See main article: 1962 Swedish speedway season.

1963

See main article: 1963 Swedish speedway season.

1964

See main article: 1964 Swedish speedway season.

1965

See main article: 1965 Swedish speedway season.

1966

See main article: 1966 Swedish speedway season.

1967

See main article: 1967 Swedish speedway season.

1968

See main article: 1968 Swedish speedway season.

1969

See main article: 1969 Swedish speedway season.

1970s

1970

See main article: 1970 Swedish speedway season.

1971

See main article: 1971 Swedish speedway season.

1972

See main article: 1972 Swedish speedway season.

1973

See main article: 1973 Swedish speedway season.

1974

See main article: 1974 Swedish speedway season.

1975

See main article: 1975 Swedish speedway season.

1976

See main article: 1976 Swedish speedway season.

1977

See main article: 1977 Swedish speedway season.

1978

See main article: 1978 Swedish speedway season.

1979

See main article: 1979 Swedish speedway season.

1980s

1980

See main article: 1980 Swedish speedway season.

1981

See main article: 1981 Swedish speedway season.

1982

See main article: 1982 Swedish speedway season.

1983

See main article: 1983 Swedish speedway season.

1984

See main article: 1984 Swedish speedway season.

1985

See main article: 1985 Swedish speedway season.

1986

See main article: 1986 Swedish speedway season.

1987

See main article: 1987 Swedish speedway season.

1988

See main article: 1988 Swedish speedway season.

1989

See main article: 1989 Swedish speedway season.

1990s

1990

See main article: 1990 Swedish speedway season.

1991

See main article: 1991 Swedish speedway season.

1992

See main article: 1992 Swedish speedway season.

1993

See main article: 1993 Swedish speedway season.

1994

See main article: 1994 Swedish speedway season.

1995

See main article: 1995 Swedish speedway season.

1996

See main article: 1996 Swedish speedway season.

1997

See main article: 1997 Swedish speedway season.

1998

See main article: 1998 Swedish speedway season.

1999

See main article: 1999 Swedish speedway season.

2000s

2000

See main article: 2000 Swedish speedway season.

2001

See main article: 2001 Swedish speedway season.

2002

See main article: 2002 Swedish speedway season.

2003

See main article: 2003 Swedish speedway season.

2004

See main article: 2004 Swedish speedway season.

2005

See main article: 2005 Swedish speedway season.

2006

See main article: 2006 Swedish speedway season.

2007

See main article: 2007 Swedish speedway season.

2008

See main article: 2008 Swedish speedway season.

2009

See main article: 2009 Swedish speedway season.

2010s

2010

See main article: 2010 Swedish speedway season.

2011

See main article: 2011 Swedish speedway season.

2012

See main article: 2012 Swedish speedway season.

2013

See main article: 2013 Swedish speedway season.

2014

See main article: 2014 Swedish speedway season.

2015

See main article: 2015 Swedish speedway season.

2016

See main article: 2016 Swedish speedway season.

2017

See main article: 2017 Swedish speedway season.

2018

See main article: 2018 Swedish speedway season.

2019

See main article: 2019 Swedish speedway season.

2020s

2020

See main article: 2020 Swedish speedway season.

2021

See main article: 2021 Swedish speedway season.

2022

See main article: 2022 Swedish speedway season.

2023

See main article: 2023 Swedish speedway season.

Notes and References

Web site: Swedish Speedway Team Championship (Swedish Team Championship) . History of Speedway . 7 February 2023.
Web site: Vargarna Speedway. August 30, 2007. Vargarna Speedway. 2007. Vargarna Speedway. Swedish. https://web.archive.org/web/20070929013952/http://www.vargarna.nu/main.asp?todo=historia&cols=5. September 29, 2007. dead.
Web site: Slottsskogsvallen -Kaparna Speedway. August 30, 2007. kaparna.nu. kaparna.nu. Swedish.
Web site: History: Speedway and Longtrack. August 30, 2007. speedway.org. speedway.org.