Liberec Speedway is the

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...

club known as Plochá dráha klub v AČR Liberec and the Pavlovický Stadion, which hosts the club. The stadium is located in the northern outskirts of

Liberec Liberec (; german: Reichenberg ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 103,000 inhabitants and it is the fifth-largest city in the country. It lies on the Lusatian Neisse, in a basin surrounded by mountains. The city centre is well preser ...

in the Czech Republic, off the Letná 618.

History

The Pavlovický Stadion was built in 1930. The team have had a sporadic existence, first competing in the Czechoslovak Team Speedway Championship as Liaz Liberec in 1970. Liaz (LIberecké Automobilové Závody) was a manufacturer of trucks. Over the next two decades a team from Liberec would not compete every year but AMK Liberec won the 1.Liga in 1990 before the

Dissolution of Czechoslovakia The dissolution of Czechoslovakia ( cs, Rozdělení Československa, sk, Rozdelenie Česko-Slovenska) took effect on December 31, 1992, and was the self-determined split of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries o ...

. Then participating in the

Czech Republic Team Speedway Championship The Czech Republic Speedway Team Championships is an annual motorcycle speedway event held each year and organised by the Autoklub České republiky to determine the champions of the Czech Republic. From 1956 until 1991 the competition was for ...

, teams known as GRS Liberec, SK Kaltina Liberec and GRSBM Liberec (all due to various sponsorships) represented Liberec. The most important event that was run at the stadium was the semi-final of the Under-21 World Championship in 2019. Also in 2021, the team now known as Aforti Start Gniezno Liberec (due to a collaboration between the club and the Polish team

Start Gniezno Start Gniezno is a Polish motorcycle speedway team based in Gniezno who currently race in First League (2nd division). The club was initially part the multi-sports club with the prefix SKS, before disbanding and being reformed as TŻ (Towarzystwo ...

) won the silver medal in the Czech Republic Team Championship.

References

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