Christián László Municipal Sports Complex is a municipal sports complex in Gyula, Hungary. It consists of 13 hectares of sports facilities, which includes the Himer Center field with an athletics track and a football pitch surrounded by a

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 ...

track. In addition, there are two more full size football pitches, tennis courts, basketball and skateboarding facilities.

History

Speedway

The speedway arena has been a significant venue for

and hosted important events, including qualifying rounds of the

Speedway World Championship The World Championship of Speedway is an international competition between the highest-ranked motorcycle speedway riders of the world, run under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). The first official championsh ...

(starting in 1987) and a qualifying round of the

Speedway World Team Cup The Speedway World Team Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway, speedway event held each year in different countries. The competition started in 1960 and was replaced with the Speedway World Cup in 2001. Format From 1960 until 1985, each team c ...

in 2004. It also held a round of the

2008 Individual Speedway European Championship The 2008 Individual Speedway European Championship Jurica Pavlič from Croatia is the defending European champion. Calendar Allocation Qualifying rounds Semi-finals Final *Final *2008-08-24 (1:30 pm)On 23 August was rain. ...

Football

In 2023, the Himer center field underwent a complete renovation.

References

Multi-purpose stadiums in Hungary Speedway in Hungary Gyula, Hungary Buildings and structures in Békés County {{motorcycle-speedway-stub