The Polonia Piła Stadium ( pl, Stadion Polonii Piła) also known as Municipal Sports and Recreation Centre ( pl, Miejski Ośrodek Sportu i Rekreacji (MOSiR)) is a 12,000-capacity

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 ...

and association football stadium in Piła, Poland. The venue is used by the speedway team

Polonia Piła Polonia Piła is a motorcycle speedway club in the Polish town of Piła Piła (german: Schneidemühl) is a city in northwestern Poland and the capital of Piła County, situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. Its population as of 2021 was ...

, who compete in the

Team Speedway Polish Championship The Team Speedway Polish Championship (Polish: ''Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, DMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1948. The team winning the league is awarded ...

History

The stadium was built in 1927 and 1928 and was called the Erika-Sportplatz. In 1956, the Polonia Piła speedway team moved to the stadium and remained there from 1956 until 1967. Only sporadic speedway meetings were held afterwards and then ceased altogether. It was not until 1990 that work began on rebuilding the speedway track and in 1992 Polonia Piła returned for the

1992 Polish speedway season The 1992 Polish Speedway season was the 1992 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland. Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The 1992 Individual Speedway Polish Championship final was held on 6 September at Zielona Góra. Tomasz ...

. At the same time the east stand underwent renovation. In 1997, the venue hosted the

1997 Speedway World Team Cup The 1997 Speedway World Team Cup was the 38th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. The final was held in Piła, Poland on 13 September. Denmark won their 11th title and Hans Nielsen won his 11th and fi ...

final and the following year hosted the final of the

1998 Speedway Under-21 World Championship The 1998 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship was the 22nd edition of the World motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships. The final was won by Robert Dados of Poland. The success also gained him qualification to 1999 Speedway Grand P ...

. In 2021, it was announced with the help of government funding that a PLN 16.65 million renovation project would begin in 2022.

References

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