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Allsvenskan (speedway)
Allsvenskan (literally, "The National League") is the second tier in the league system of Speedway in Sweden and currently comprises six motorcycle speedway teams. Until the introduction of the Elitserien (speedway), Elitserien in 1982 the Allsvenskan was the highest level of Swedish Speedway. Past winners 2024 Clubs History From the start of Swedish league speedway in 1948 until 1981 the Allsvenskan was the top speedway league in Sweden. But in 1982 the Elitserien was formed and the Allsvenskan became the second level of Swedish speedway. Speedway meetings in Sweden are normally held between May and September. The teams are generally known by nicknames rather than club or city names. These nicknames usually have some sort of local connection. Rules As with the Elitserien (speedway), Elitserien and the Speedway Elite League in the UK, the top four teams at the end of each season compete in the playoffs in semi-finals and a final. The winner of the final are crowned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Swedish Speedway Season
The 2024 Swedish Speedway season is the 2024 season of motorcycle speedway in Sweden. The season includes the Swedish Individual Speedway Championship and the Swedish Speedway Team Championship. In October 2023, Vargarna announced their intention to return to the Bauhaus (company), Bauhaus retail company sponsored Elitserien (speedway), Elitserien. The Allsvenskan (speedway), Allsvenskan would retain seven teams with the addition of Masarna, who won the third tier division 1 in 2023. Individual Swedish Individual Championship The 2024 Swedish Individual Speedway Championship took place on 28 May at the Hejla Arena and was won by Fredrik Lindgren (speedway rider), Fredrik Lindgren. It was the fourth time Lindgren had been crowned Swedish champion, moving him up to fifth place on the all-time list. Kim Nilsson finished second and earned a wildcard for the 2024 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden on 15 June. U21 Championship Team Team Championship Elitserien Lejonen won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avesta Motorstadion
Avesta Motorstadion also called the Arena Avesta or Stadion Brovalla is a 12,000 capacity motorcycle speedway track located 10 kilometres south of Krylbo and Avesta. The stadium is on the Swedish national road 70, in a remote area surrounded by Långheden Forest. The stadium hosts the Masarna speedway team that compete in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship and have been champions of Sweden on two occasions. History The track was inaugurated in 1979, with the Masarna speedway team moving there from the Avestavallen. The stadium's most significant event was the hosting of the World Championship round called the Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden in 2003. It has also hosted the finals of the Swedish Individual Speedway Championship The Swedish Individual Championship is a competition for Swedish Speedway riders, held each year to determine the Swedish national champion. History After World War II the first championship was held in 1948, although it was considered unoffi .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallhult Motorstadion
Tallhult Motorstadion is a 6,000 capacity motorcycle speedway track located about 3 kilometres north of Hagfors. The track is on road 245 to Geijersholm and is surrounded by forest. The stadium hosts the speedway team Valsarna that compete in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship. The speedway team have been champions of Sweden two times. History The stadium has hosted the final of the Swedish Individual Speedway Championship The Swedish Individual Championship is a competition for Swedish Speedway riders, held each year to determine the Swedish national champion. History After World War II the first championship was held in 1948, although it was considered unoffi ... in 1998 and 2003. In 2013, Hagfors entrepreneur Kjell Ottosson bought the stadium and adjacent motocross track, following the bankruptcy of the speedway club and rented them out to both the speedway and motocross clubs. He put the stadium up for sale in 2017 and again in 2020. Valsarna have a lease th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagfors
Hagfors is a locality and the seat of Hagfors Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 10,125 inhabitants in 2010. Its history is traced to 1873, when it was decided to build two blast furnaces at the location. The town of Hagfors used to play host to the Swedish Rally, a car rally, every February, which provided a significant annual economic windfall for the region. Hagfors was one of the last places in Sweden to receive the formal title of a city, when it was detached from ''Norra Råda'' in 1950. The designated coat of arms was a tribute to the furnaces. At that time the town had 6,501 inhabitants. Today it is the seat of the much larger Hagfors Municipality, but is not an administrative entity of its own. Climate The Hagfors area has a subarctic climate due to the area's cool nights. The official weather station is located in Gustavsfors, a rural locality to the north at a similar altitude. The climate type is very unusual for subarctic climate since summer days are w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valsarna
Valsarna is a motorcycle speedway club from Tallhult, Hagfors in Sweden, who compete in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship. Their home track is at the Tallhult Motorstadion which is located to the North of Hagfors on the road to Geijersholm. They are twice league champions of Sweden. History 1967–1976 Valsarna Speedway Club was founded on 11 October 1967. They first participated in the Swedish leagues during the 1970 Swedish speedway season, competing in division 3 west, and they won their first honours the following season in 1971 Swedish speedway season, 1971, after winning the same division. After four years in division 2, they dropped out for the league. 1981–1993 The club returned to league action in 1981 Swedish speedway season, 1981 and spent the decade in the second tier before finally earning promotion during the 1993 Swedish speedway season. 1994–1999 For their first season in the Elitserien (speedway), Elitserien they signed one of the world's leading rider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalvholmen Motorbana
Kalvholmen Motorstadion is a motorcycle speedway track located in the southeast of Karlstad. The facility on the Kalvholmsgatan forms part of a complex that includes, speedway, Rally cross and Cross Kart. The stadium hosts the Karlstad Speedway (Solkatterna) team that competes in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship. History The track's origins started in the late 1960s, with a search by the motor club association for a new site, following the speedway team's move away from the short lived Färjestad's Trotting Track. The association found a landfill area and began construction in 1970 and opened it in the Autumn of the same year. In 1979, a smaller 80cc track was constructed inside of the main 500cc track. The venue hosted the World Championship Swedish final round during both the 1983 Individual Speedway World Championship and 1989 Individual Speedway World Championship and the final of the Swedish Individual Speedway Championship in 1984. Tony Rickardsson Jan Ton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Värmland County
Värmland County () is a county or '' län'' in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Østfold, Akershus and Innlandet to the west. The title of Duke of Värmland is claimed by His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip. Province The county has more or less the same boundaries as Värmland Province, except that the municipalities of Karlskoga and Degerfors are part of Örebro County. Administration Värmland County was formed in 1779, when it was separated from Närke and Värmland County. The main aim of the County Administrative Board is to fulfil the goals set in national politics by the Riksdag and the Government, to coordinate the interests of the county, to promote the development of the county, to establish regional goals and safeguard the due process of law in the handling of each case. The County Administrative Board is a Government Agency headed by a Governor. See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlstad
Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 67,122 inhabitants in 2020 with 97,233 inhabitants in the wider municipality in 2023, and is the 21st largest municipality in Sweden. Karlstad has a university and a cathedral. During recent years, Karlstad has started seeing big growth with many new buildings, for example the new apartment complexes around Orrholmen and Tullholmen, hosting a brand new Coop store and a 17 story high rise apartment which was finished in late 2022. Karlstad is built on the river delta where Sweden's longest river, Klarälven, runs into Sweden's largest lake, Vänern. It has the second largest lake port in the country after Västerås. Karlstad is often associated with sunshine and the symbol for Karlstad is a smiling sun. Karlstad is reputed to be one of the sunniest towns in Sweden and a local wai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlstad Speedway
Karlstad Speedway is a motorcycle speedway club from Karlstad in Sweden. Stadium The city's stadium is the Kalvholmen Motorstadion, a 297-metre track, which is located in the southern Lamberget region of Karlstad. History Solkatterna The city's first speedway club was Solkatterna (the Sun Cats) which was founded in 1967 and first raced in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship during the 1967 Swedish speedway season in division 3 west. After a decade of racing in the third tier of Swedish speedway, the team's first honours came during the 1976 Swedish speedway season when they won the third division south. However, they failed to gain promotion after being beaten in the promotion play off, despite the best efforts of Lars Ericsson. A second opportunity arose in 1979, when the team won the division again but this time won the play off. After finishing second during their first season of second tier speedway in 1980, they won the division in 1981. The main riders that brough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevby Motorstadion
Grevby Motorstadion is a motorcycle speedway track located about 10 kilometres north of Mariestad. The facility is in a remote location just off the European route E20. The stadium hosts the Örnarna speedway team that competes in the Swedish Speedway Team Championship. They have been champions of Sweden four times. History The name Grevby Motorstadion derives from the farm Grevby, near Hasslerör in the Mariestad municipality. The stadium hosted the Intercontinental final round of the 1984 Speedway World Team Cup and the fourth round of the 1990 Speedway World Team Cup. It also hosted the final of the Swedish Individual Speedway Championship The Swedish Individual Championship is a competition for Swedish Speedway riders, held each year to determine the Swedish national champion. History After World War II the first championship was held in 1948, although it was considered unoffi ... in 1983 and 1992. The name of the Arena was changed to the Husky Arena on 8 May 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County () is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden. The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1,616,000 amounts to 17% of Sweden's population. The formal capital and seat of the governor of Västra Götaland County is Gothenburg. The political capital and seat of the Västra Götaland Regional Council is Vänersborg. The county was established on 1 January 1998, when Älvsborg County, Gothenburg and Bohus County and Skaraborg County were merged. Provinces Sweden's counties are generally of greater importance than its provinces. The counties are the main administrative units for politics and population census counts. Due to its size and young age, the Västra Götaland County has no common heritage. Of cultural and historical significance are the provinces that Västra Götaland County consists of: Västergötland, Bohuslän and Dalsland. There is al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariestad
Mariestad () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Mariestad Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 16,611 inhabitants in 2019. Until 1997 it was the capital of the former Skaraborg County and an episcopal see in the Church of Sweden between 1583 and 1646. History The city was founded in 1583 by Duke Charles, who later became King Charles IX of Sweden. The city is named after his wife Maria of Palatinate-Simmern, Marie of Pfalz. The coat of arms for Mariestad, an ox stepping out of the water, is said to be what Marie of Pfalz saw by the bay of Tidan (river), Tidan in Mariestad when she first arrived there. Diocese Mariestad is one of two Swedish cities with a cathedral without a bishop's seat, the other being Kalmar. For political reasons, the diocese of Mariestad was presided over by a Superintendent (ecclesiastical), superintendent rather than a bishop from 1583 until 1646, when the superintendent was moved to Karlstad and the diocese of Mariestad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
