Linköping Motorstadion also called the Sviestad Motorstadion is a multi-use facility that includes track racing, road racing, motocross,

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 clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

, rallycross, karting and traffic training. It is located in

Hackefors Hackefors () is a city district in southeastern Linköping in Östergötland. It is located east of Stångån in Landeryd parish. Hackefors consists largely of residential buildings. There are also jogging tracks in Hackefors, Åbysäcken, of 2&nbs ...

, which is on the south east outskirts of

Linköping Linköping ( , ) is a city in southern Sweden, with around 167,000 inhabitants as of 2024. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Chu ...

, Sweden.

History

The facility was built in 1965 as a practice site for traffic training. Adjacent to the traffic training and road racing facilities is a motorcycle speedway track. The speedway track hosted the Nordic Speedway Final in 1969 and 1990. It was also the home of the speedway team called

Filbyterna Filbyterna were a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based at the old Linköping Motorstadion in Ryd (1948–1977) and the Linköping Motorstadion (1978–2010), near Linköping, Sweden. They were twice champions of Sweden. History 1948 to 1958 ...

who competed in the

Swedish Speedway Team Championship The Swedish Speedway Team Championship is the team championship of motorcycle speedway, speedway in Sweden. History The Championship was introduced in 1950. In 1982 the Championship was renamed with a new league called the Elitserien (speedwa ...

at the venue from 1978 until their closure in 2010. The stadium hosted the World Championship round called the

Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden The Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden is a speedway event that is a part of the Speedway Grand Prix Series. Winners Most wins * Jason Crump 4 times * Bartosz Zmarzlik 4 times See also *List of sporting events in Sweden * Speedway Grand ...

from 1995 to 2000. Despite the speedway track having no resident team since 2010, the track still remains a significant choice of venue for major speedway meetings, most recently the 2022

Swedish Individual Speedway Championship The Swedish Individual Championship is a competition for Swedish Speedway riders, held each year to determine the Swedish national champion. History After World War II the first championship was held in 1948, although it was considered unoffi ...

References

Speedway venues in Sweden Sports venues in Östergötland County Sport in Linköping 20th-century establishments in Östergötland County 1965 establishments in Sweden {{motorcycle-speedway-stub