Elite League (speedway)

Elite League
Formerlyreplaced the British League
SportSpeedway
Founded1997
Ceased2016
Replaced bySGB Premiership
AdministratorSpeedway Control Bureau
No. of teams8
CountryUnited Kingdom
Last
champion(s)		Wolverhampton Wolves
Most titlesPoole Pirates (7)
Official websitewww.speedwaygb.co

The Elite League was the top 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 sponsored by Sky Sports until the end of the 2013 season.[1] In 2016, the Elite League featured 8 teams, unlike 10 in 2014, during a season which ran between March and October.[2] Each team had a designated race day on which they normally staged their home fixtures, and they regularly had home and away fixtures scheduled in the same week.

The Elite League operated for 20 years until British speedway was restructured with the formation of the SGB Premiership and SGB Championship.[3]

  1. ^ "New speedway deal". Sky Sports. 10 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
  2. ^ "British Speedway AGM Statement". Speedway GB. British Speedway Promoters' Association. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  3. ^ "British Speedway Gets Major Revamp", speedwaygb.co, 3 November 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016