SGB Championship 2021

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SGB Championship 2021
League SGB Championship
Champions Poole Pirates
Knockout Cup Poole Pirates
Individual not held
Pairs not held
Fours not held
Highest average Sam Masters
Division/s above SGB Premiership 2021
Division/s below 2021 NDL

The SGB Championship 2021 was the second tier division, called the SGB Championship, of the British speedway championship in 2021. [1]

Contents

Changes from the last edition of the Championship (held in 2019) were the addition of three teams and the loss of two teams. The 2019 Premiership club Poole Pirates, were the biggest profile club to join the league after dropping down from the highest league. Also the Kent Kings and Plymouth Gladiators both joined the league from the National Development League. Sheffield Tigers left the league to move up to the highest division [2] and Somerset Rebels withdrew from the league altogether. [3]

The league started on 21 May with twelve teams participating and race meetings were covered by Eurosport. [4] Poole Pirates finished top of the regular season table and secured a place in the play off semi finals. [5] Poole duly won their play off semi final against Leicester and would meet Glasgow in the final. Glasgow, who had finished second in the table, defeated Edinburgh in the other semi final despite being eliminated from the Knockout Cup the week before by their Scottish rivals.

Poole became the champions after a 96–84 aggregate win over Glasgow in the play off final. They also sealed the double winning the division 2 Knockout Cup for the third time in their history. [6]

Final Table

PosTeamPWDL4W3WD1LLFAPts
1 Poole Pirates 20100031123100079449
2 Glasgow Tigers 209012302393783346
3 Leicester Lions 209012112497082742
4 Redcar Bears 207302212391785142
5 Edinburgh Monarchs 205321213391087933
6 Scunthorpe Scorpions 209011002790887933
7 Birmingham Brummies 207031112588291632
8 Kent Kings 206040032583993426
9 Berwick Bandits 206040011884895021
10 Plymouth Gladiators 206220001982695221
11 Newcastle Diamonds 205140001976798917
12 Eastbourne Eagles withdrew 26 August, results expunged

League scoring system

Fixtures & results

Home \ Away BER BIR EAS ED GLA KK LEI NEW PLY PP RED SCU
Berwick Bandits 39–51n/a32–5841–4947–4347–4351–3957–3346–4442–4854–36
Birmingham Brummies 53–37n/a52–3842–4846–4446–4455–3554–3649–4142–4839–51
Eastbourne Eagles n/an/a44–4647–4358–3241–48n/a54–3645–44n/a54–36
Edinburgh Monarchs 50–4045–45n/a41–4344–4449–4058–3247–4240–5045–4552–38
Glasgow Tigers 54–3649–4150–4044–4643–2349–4155–3559–3152–3852–3849–41
Kent Kings 57–3350–4043–4746–4339–5137–5356–3449–4138–5241–4946–44
Leicester Lions 48–4163–2756–3447–4354–3652–3863–2750–4043–4751–3957–33
Newcastle Diamonds 49–4044–45n/a42–4848–4245–4549–4145–3329–6135–5552–38
Plymouth Gladiators 51–3947–42n/a50–4044–4645–4543–4648–4245–4546–4347–37
Poole Pirates 52–3857–33n/a48–4256–3458–3252–3859–3155–3552–3857–33
Redcar Bears 45–4548–4243–4745–4547–4351–3945–4539–2155–3548–4247–42
Scunthorpe Scorpions 47–4352–3849–4154–3651–3963–2739–5157–3356–3450–3446–44
Source: [7]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Play Offs

Quarter FinalsSemi FinalsFinal
               
Scunthorpe Scorpions 3628 64
Leicester Lions 54 3892
Leicester Lions 42 4082
Poole Pirates 4850 98
Poole Pirates
Bye
Poole Pirates 40 5696
Glasgow Tigers 5034 84
Edinburgh Monarchs 51 57108
Redcar Bears 3933 72
Edinburgh Monarchs 34 4781
Glasgow Tigers 5643 99
Glasgow Tigers
Bye

Home team scores are in bold
Overall aggregate scores are in red

Final

First Leg

2 November [8] Glasgow Tigers
Craig Cook 11
Tom Brennan 10
Ricky Wells 9
Marcin Nowak 7
Broc Nicol 6
Connor Bailey 4
Sam Jensen 3
5040 Poole Pirates
Danny King 9
Rory Schlein 9
Benjamin Basso 6
Zach Cook (guest) 6
Steve Worrall 5
Danyon Hume 3
Ben Cook 2
Ashfield Stadium

Second Leg

4 November [9] Poole Pirates
Rory Schlein 12
Danny King 11
Benjamin Basso 9
Steve Worrall 9
Zach Cook (guest) 7
Ben Cook 5
Danyon Hume 3
5634 Glasgow Tigers
Craig Cook 11
Tom Brennan 6
Marcin Nowak 6
Ricky Wells 4
Broc Nicol 4
Connor Bailey 3
Sam Jensen 0
Wimborne Road

Knockout Cup

The 2021 SGB Championship Knockout Cup will be the 53rd edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. [10]

Tournament

Preliminary RoundsQuarter FinalsSemi FinalsFinal
                    
Glasgow Tigers
BYE
Glasgow Tigers 5148 99
Berwick Bandits 39 4281
Berwick Bandits
BYE
Glasgow Tigers 5335 88
Edinburgh Monarchs 37 5592
Edinburgh Monarchs 4752 99
Newcastle Diamonds 43 3881
Edinburgh Monarchs 5450 104
Birmingham Brummies 36 4076
Redcar Bears 4635 81
Birmingham Brummies 44 5599
Edinburgh Monarchs 4233 75
Poole Pirates 47 57104
Scunthorpe Scorpions
BYE
Scunthorpe Scorpions 3840 78
Leicester Lions 52 50102
Leicester Lions
BYE
Leicester Lions 4935 84
Poole Pirates 41 5596
Eastbourne Eagles 5840 98
Kent Kings 32 4981
Eastbourne Eagles scr
Poole Pirates w/o
Plymouth Gladiators 4129 70
Poole Pirates 49 61110

HOME TEAM SCORES ARE IN BOLD
OVERALL AGGREGATE SCORES ARE IN RED
TIE WINNERS ARE IN BOLD

Final

First Leg

23 October [11] Edinburgh Monarchs
Richie Worrall 12
Sam Masters 10
Josh Pickering 7
Drew Kemp 7
Kye Thomson 5
Anders Rowe 1
Jason Edwards (guest) 1
4247 Poole Pirates
Danny King 13
Benjamin Basso 13
Steve Worrall 9
Rory Schlein 5
Danyon Hume 5
Ben Cook 0
Connor Bailey (guest) 0
Armadale Stadium

Second Leg

23 October [12] Poole Pirates
Steve Worrall 13
Rory Schlein 12
Danny King 11
Benjamin Basso 8
Ben Cook 5
Danyon Hume 4
Zaine Kennedy (guest) 4
5733 Edinburgh Monarchs
Sam Masters 10
Josh Pickering 8
Drew Kemp 8
Richie Worrall 5
Anders Rowe 2
Kye Thomson 0
Jason Edwards (guest) 0
Wimborne Road

Teams and final averages

[13]

Berwick Bandits

Birmingham Brummies

Edinburgh Monarchs

Glasgow Tigers

Kent Kings

Leicester Lions

Newcastle Diamonds

Plymouth Gladiators

Poole Pirates

Redcar Bears

Scunthorpe Scorpions

Eastbourne Eagles (withdrew)

See also

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