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TOURNAMENTS
The following international speedway tournaments are included on this site: |
1953-56 Nordic Team Championship (in Scandinavia) 4-team tournament between Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Held over 4 |
rounds, one in each country. |
1968 World League This F.I.M competition was between Great Britain, Poland, Russia, and Sweden. Each team was to race each other |
twice at home and twice away, in 13-heat internationals. Sadly, the competition was never completed. |
1968-88 Central European Tournaments features the Danube Cup (Austria v Czechoslovakia v Hungary v Yugoslavia) and the Europa Cup |
(Austria v Belgium v Holland v Italy v Yugoslavia) |
1972 Internations Championship (in United Kingdom) A 10-match league format for internationals between teams from Australia, England, |
New Zealand, Sweden, and a combined Norway-Denmark team. |
1973 Daily Mirror International Tournament (in United Kingdom) The biggest tournament ever staged, with Australia, England, New |
Zealand, Poland, Sweden, U.S.S.R, and a combined Norway-Denmark team competing in 24 matches over a 19-day period. |
1975 Daily Mirror International Tournament (in United Kingdom) A mere shadow of its 1973 predecessor, Australia, England, Sweden, |
and a Rest of the World team competed in a 6-match league format. |
1980-81 Tri-Nations Test Series (in Australia) 3-team tournaments between Australia, England, and USA at 7 tracks in 4 states. |
1982 International Fours (in United Kingdom) A 4-team tournament between Australasia, England, Denmark, and USA over 4 matches. |
1983 Inter Nations Tournament (in United Kingdom) A 3-team tournament between Denmark, England, |
and Rest of the World over 3 matches. |
1983-85 Summary of Junior (U-21 & U-23) 4-team Tournaments. |
1985-date Nordic Under-21 Team Championship (in Scandinavia) The Under-21 teams of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden meet |
in a single 4-team tournament. |
1988 Diamond Jubilee Series (in United Kingdom) 7-match tournament between Denmark, England, Sweden, and USA to mark 60 years of |
speedway racing in the UK. |
1991 Inter Nations Championship (in United Kingdom) A 3-team tournament between Australia, England, and Sweden over 3 matches. |
1992-2004 Mitropa Cup (in Central Europe) A competition for the smaller speedway nations such as Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, |
Slovakia etc. The format varied, with anything from 2-team to 7-team events having been staged at various times. Results for some seasons |
are incomplete. In later years, club teams represented countries. |
2005-2011 3 or 4 Nations Team Championship featured teams from Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia. In 2007, Croatia and Slovenia each |
tracked two club teams, but the competition reverted to international teams, with the addition of Hungary, in 2008. Not held in 2009, |
the competition returned in 2010 with home and away Test Matches between Croatia, Slovenia, and Czech Rep. Slovakia joined the |
competition in 2011, and the competititon was renamed as ... |
2012 Adriatic League Test Matches between Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia. This was replaced by ... |
2013-date Adriatic Nations Team Cup , a 4-team tournament featuring Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia. |
2008-2011 European Junior (Under-19) Team Championship, a new competition organised by the UEM, which then became the ... |
2012-date European Junior (Under-21) Team Championship (2012 UEM; 2013-date FIM-Europe) |
and, of course ... the longest running tournament of them all, the World Team Cup (now SWC - Speedway World Cup), and |
World Junior (U-21) Team Cup, for which details of preliminary rounds and finals are here |
Note Any tournaments for riders under-16 on 80cc bikes or larger can be found at Youth |
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