The Wack Hofmeister Stadium formerly the Altes Stadion Abensberg (the Old Stadium) 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 ...

and

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

stadium located slightly east of the centre of

Abensberg Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian Districts of Germany, district of Kelheim (district), Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around southwest of Regensburg, east of Ingolstadt, northwest of Landshut and north of Munich. It is situa ...

in Germany. It hosts the speedway team MSC Abensberg and the football team TSV Abensberg 1862.

History

The stadium has hosted international matches for the

West Germany national speedway team The West Germany national speedway team were one of the teams that competed in international team motorcycle speedway. History The West German speedway team competed in the inaugural Speedway World Team Cup in 1960, finishing second in the Cen ...

and in 1964, held 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 ...

final. Also referred to as the Motorstadion Abensberg, the venue hosted the

1985 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship The 1985 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship was the ninth edition of the European motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships. The Championship was won by Per Jonsson. European final *14 July 1985 * Abensberg Motorstadion, Abe ...

. It was won by

Per Jonsson Per Christer Jonsson (born 21 March 1966 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a former speedway rider who won the Speedway World Championship in 1990, and finished runner-up in 1992. He earned 65 international caps for the Sweden national speedway team a ...

on 14 July 1985, who later became a world champion. The most prestigious speedway event to be held at the track was the first ever

Speedway Grand Prix of Germany The Speedway Grand Prix of Germany is a speedway event that is a part of the Speedway Grand Prix Series. History The inaugural German Grand Prix was held at the Motorstadion Abensberg in 1995. From 2016 to 2023, the event was staged at the ...

in 1995, which formed part of the World Championship. The

1995 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany The 1995 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany was the third race of the 1995 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 8 July in the Motorstadion in Abensberg, Germany and was won by Danish rider Tommy Knudsen.Tommy Knudsen Tommy Knudsen (born 9 November 1961 in Roager, Denmark) is a former Motorcycle speedway rider who won eight Speedway World Team Cups, and two World Pairs. He earned 81 caps for the Denmark national speedway team. He i ...

. In 2022, the stadium was renamed in honour of former speedway rider

Josef Hofmeister Josef Hofmeister nicknamed Wack Hofmeister (born 17 June 1934) is a former motorcycle rider from Germany, who competed in Grasstrack, Longtrack and motorcycle speedway. He competed in six World Longtrack Championship Finals and won a hat-tric ...

(nicknamed Wack Hofmeister).

References

Speedway venues in Germany {{motorcycle-speedway-stub