The 2025 SGB Cab Direct Championship season will be the 78th season of the second tier of
British Speedway and the 8th known as the
SGB Championship
The Speedway Great Britain (SGB) Championship is the second division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom, governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). ...
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Poole Pirates
Poole Pirates (also known as Poole Speedway) are a motorcycle speedway team based in Poole, England, competing in the SGB Championship. The club have been the champions of the United Kingdom on ten occasions.
Poole Speedway is promoted by l ...
are the defending league champions,
Knockout Cup champions and BSN Series champions.
Summary
The same nine clubs from 2024 will compete in the Championship in 2025. The format also remains the same with each team racing against each other twice (home and away), meaning a total of 16 fixtures each during the season. The Cab Direct Knockout Cup and the BSN Series also return, both following the same formats as in 2024.
The top four teams will qualify for the playoffs, staged over two semi-finals and a final. The points limit for team building remained at 40 points.
League
Regular season
† Workington deducted 2 Championship points for breaching SCB regulations.
Fixtures and results
Play Offs
Home team scores are in bold
Overall aggregate scores are in
red
Knockout Cup
The 2025 SGB Championship Knockout Cup will be the 57th edition of the
Knockout Cup for tier two teams and the 8th edition under the
SGB Championship Knockout Cup
The SGB Championship Knockout Cup is a speedway second tier Knockout Cup competition in the United Kingdom. It was renamed in 2017 after previously being called the Premier League Knockout Cup.
Past winners
See also
Knockout Cup (speed ...
name.
Home team scores are in bold
Overall aggregate scores are in
red
BSN Series
Scottish Group
Fixtures
Table
Northern Group
Fixtures
Table
Southern Group
Fixtures
Table
Knockout stages
Home team scores are in bold
Overall aggregate scores are in
red
Pairs Championship
The 2025 edition of the
SGB Championship Pairs took place on Saturday 5 April, at the
GT Tyres Arena in
Workington
Workington is a coastal town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town is at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast, south-west of Carlisle and north-east of Whitehaven. At the 2021 census the ...
. It was won by Redcar Bears for the second season in a row, and the third time in the last four years.
Qualifying heats
Semi-finals
Final
Riders' Championship
The 2025 edition of the
SGB Championship Riders Championship took place on Sunday 6 April at the
Eddie Wright Raceway in
Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe () is an industrial town in Lincolnshire, England, and the county's third most populous settlement after Lincoln, England, Lincoln and Grimsby, with a population of 81,286 in 2021. It is the administrative centre and largest settleme ...
.
It was won by
Chris Harris of the Glasgow Tigers.
2025 squads
Berwick Bandits
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Edinburgh Monarchs
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Glasgow Tigers
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Oxford Cheetahs
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Plymouth Gladiators
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Poole Pirates
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Redcar Bears
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Scunthorpe Scorpions
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Workington Comets
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See also
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List of United Kingdom speedway league champions
The List of United Kingdom Speedway League Champions is split into three divisions, the top tier, the second tier and third tier, all three divisions have been known in various guises such as National League, Premier League, Elite League and many ...
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Knockout Cup (speedway)
Knockout Cup (sometimes referred to as the KO Cup) is a type of British motorcycle speedway competition, examples of which have run annually since 1929.
Each tier of British Speedway has its own respective Knockout Cup. The current Knockout Cu ...
References
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