The 1980 Swedish speedway season was the 1980 season of

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

in Sweden.

Individual

Individual Championship

The 1980 Swedish Individual Speedway Championship final was held on 23 August in Eskilstuna. Jan Andersson won the Swedish Championship for the second time.

Junior Championship

Winner - Pierre Brannefors

Team

Team Championship

Njudungarna won division 1 and were declared the winners of the

Swedish Speedway Team Championship The Swedish Speedway Team Championship is the team championship of motorcycle speedway, speedway in Sweden. History The Championship was introduced in 1950. In 1982 the Championship was renamed with a new league called the Elitserien (speedwa ...

for the second time. The team included Conny Samuelsson and Bo Wirebrand.

Piraterna Piraterna are a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based in Motala, Sweden The team are two times Swedish Speedway Team Championship, champions of Sweden. and compete in the Elitserien (speedway), Elitserien History 1949 to 1951 Piraterna made ...

and

Kaparna Kaparna were a Swedish motorcycle speedway team that competed in the Swedish speedway leagues from 1949 to 2007. The team were last based at the Arendal Speedway Track, in Arendal, west of Gothenburg on the island of at Hisingen in Sweden. They ...

won the second division north and south respectively, while Pilarna won the third division.

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