SGB Championship Knockout Cup

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SGB Championship Knockout Cup
Formerly Premier League Knockout Cup
Sport Speedway
Founded2017
Divisions(Div 1) Premiership KO Cup
(Div 3) NDL KO Cup
CountryUnited Kingdom
Most recent
champion(s)
Poole Pirates

The SGB Championship Knockout Cup is a speedway second tier Knockout Cup competition in the United Kingdom. [1] It was renamed in 2017 after previously being called the Premier League Knockout Cup.

Contents

Past winners

YearWinnersRunners-upRef
2017 Peterborough Panthers Ipswich Witches [2]
2018 Workington Comets Scunthorpe Scorpions [3]
2019 Redcar Bears Newcastle Diamonds [4]
2020Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Poole Pirates Edinburgh Monarchs [5]
2022 Poole Pirates Redcar Bears
2023 Scunthorpe Scorpions Poole Pirates [6]
2024 Poole Pirates Oxford Cheetahs [7]

See also

Knockout Cup (speedway) for full list of winners and competitions

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References

  1. "MAJOR REVAMP FOR BRITISH SPEEDWAY". GB Speedway.
  2. "2017 Knockout Cup results". GB Speedway.
  3. http://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/news.php?extend.35780%7Ctitle= Cup Success For Comets 26 October 2018
  4. https://www.speedwaygb.co.uk/news.php?extend.37665%7Ctitle= Bears Are Cup Kings 28 October 2019
  5. "Poole v Edinburgh - Cup Final 2nd Leg". Poole Speedway. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  6. "Scunthorpe Scorpions beat Poole Pirates to win 2023 Knockout Cup". Bournemouth Daily Echo. 21 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  7. "Poole Pirates beat Oxford Cheetahs to Championship Knockout Cup". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 25 October 2024.