SGB Championship

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SGB Championship
Current season, competition or edition:
Sports current event.svg SGB Championship 2024
Sport Speedway
Founded2017
No. of teams9
Most recent
champion(s)		 Glasgow Tigers
Most titles Poole Pirates (2)
TV partner(s)British Speedway Network
Sponsor(s)Cab Direct
Domestic cup(s) SGB Championship Knockout Cup
Official website www.speedwaygb.co.uk
Notes
League Above
SGB Premiership
League Below
National Development League

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). It was introduced for 2017 following a restructuring of British speedway. [1]

Contents

Teams

Current teams

Former teams

Champions

SeasonChampionsSecondThird
2017 Sheffield Tigers Ipswich Witches Edinburgh Monarchs / Glasgow Tigers
2018 Workington Comets Lakeside Hammers Peterborough Panthers / Glasgow Tigers
2019 Leicester Lions Glasgow Tigers Redcar Bears / Somerset Rebels
2020Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Poole Pirates Glasgow Tigers Leicester Lions / Edinburgh Monarchs
2022 Poole Pirates Leicester Lions Edinburgh Monarchs / Glasgow Tigers
2023 Glasgow Tigers Poole Pirates Oxford Cheetahs / Scunthorpe Scorpions

History

After the 2016 season, the Premier League was renamed to the SGB Championship for the 2017 season. The 2017 edition of the league contained ten teams who met each other twice (home and away). The top four teams at the end of the regular season qualified for the playoffs to decide the champions. All ten of the teams were from the previous season's Premier League. [2]

In 2017, there was a short-lived relegation and promotion race-off between the Championship and the new top tier, the SGB Premiership, with the bottom team from the Premiership going into a playoff with the Championship winners. [1] [3] The following year in 2018, the promotion/relegation system was scrapped. [4]

Team building

At the start of the season, teams are built up to maximum points limit. The combined Calculated Match Average (CMA) of the riders declared in the team must not be higher than an agreed figure set at the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA) Annual General Meeting.

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 "British Speedway Gets Major Revamp", speedwaygb.co, 3 November 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016
  2. ↑ "Speedway: Promotion and relegation introduced to revamped competition", BBC, 3 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016
  3. ↑ "British Speedway set for big revamp with promotion and relegation", Sky Sports, 3 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016
  4. ↑ "MAJOR MOVES ANNOUNCED - British Speedway Official Website".
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