Grevby Motorstadion is 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 located about 10 kilometres north of

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 ...

. The facility is in a remote location just off the

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. The stadium hosts the Örnarna speedway team that competes in 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 ...

. 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 The 1984 Speedway World Team Cup was the 25th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. The final took place at the Stadion Alfreda Smoczyka, in Leszno, Poland. Denmark easily won their fourth title, wi ...

and the fourth round of the

1990 Speedway World Team Cup The 1990 Speedway World Team Cup was the 31st edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. The final was staged at Svítkov Stadion, Pardubice, Czechoslovakia and the United States won their second title. ...

. It also hosted the final of the

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in 1983 and 1992. The name of the Arena was changed to the Husky Arena on 8 May 2004 after Mariestads Motorklubb secured a new main sponsor, the Electrical Apparatus & Equipment company Canvac Hova AB. Husky was a product range and then it was subsequently called the Canvac Arena. In 2019, another name change ensued to the EHCC (Fastigheter) Arena, following a three-year agreement with the real estate company.

Stadium name changes

*Husky Arena (2004) *Canvac Arena *EHCC Arena (2019)

References

Speedway venues in Sweden Sports venues in Västra Götaland County Mariestad Municipality {{motorcycle-speedway-stub