Mega-Lada Togliatti is a Russian

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 ...

team based in

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and who race in the Russian Speedway Championship.

Stadium

The

Anatoly Stepanov Stadium The Anatoly Stepanov Stadium formerly the Stroitel Stadium is a 15,000-capacity Motorcycle speedway and Ice speedway in Tolyatti, Russia. It is the home track of the Russian speedway team called the Mega Lada Togliatti. History The stadium ...

, formerly the Stroitel Stadium is located at Ulitsa Rodiny, 40 in

. Its capacity is 15,000 seats and has a track circumference of 353 metres.

History

Speedway start on stadium of Anatoly Stepanov

The club began league speedway in 1967, as part of the Soviet Union Championship and raced as Zhiguli Togliatti from 1967 to 1992. The team's best league season was in 1986 after they finished runner-up behind Signal Rivne. The name Zhiguli was a brand of car manufactured by

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at the time. Following the

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the team raced in the Russian Team Speedway Championship. In 1995, a name change came as a result of the AvtoVAz company making the

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brand of car. They were known as Mega-Lada Togliatti and would become the most successful club in Russia, winning a record 17 championships from 1994 to 2023. Additionally, the team competed in the defunct

European Speedway Club Champions' Cup The European Speedway Club Champions' Cup was an annual speedway event held in different countries and organised by the European Motorcycle Union (UEM) from 1998 to 2011. The competition involved mainly Eastern European countries. Only Poland ...

and won the event four times in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008.

Champions' Cup record

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

- 3rd place *

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

- champions *

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

- champions *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

- 2nd place *

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

- champions *

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

- 2nd place *

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

- 3rd place *

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

- champions

References

{{Reflist Sport in Tolyatti Speedway teams in Russia