1971 Speedway World Team Cup
The 1971 Speedway World Team Cup was the 12th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.
The final took place at Stadion Olimpijski (Wrocław) in Poland. The title was won by Great Britain for the second time.
Qualifying
British round
- Great Britain seeded to World Final.
Scandinavian round
| Pos. | National team | Pts. | Riders |
| 1 | 41 | Anders Michanek 11 Bernt Persson 11 Bengt Jansson 10 Sören Sjösten 7 Leif Enecrona 2 | |
| 2 | 33 | Ole Olsen 12 Neils Weiss 8 Bent Nørregaard-Jensen 7 Kurt Bøgh 6 Jorn Mogensen 0 | |
| 3 | 21 | Reidar Eide 6 Ulf Lovaas 6 Odd Fossengen 5 Oyvind S. Berg 3 Svein Kaasa 1 | |
| 4 | 1 | Matti Olin 1 Erkki Hannula 0 Reima Lohkovuori 0 Jouko Naskali 0 Tapio Leppasalko 0 |
Continental round
Quarter-Final
| Pos. | National team | Pts. | Riders |
| 1 | 46 | Viktor Trofimov 9 Gennady Kurilenko 9 Anatoly Kuzmin 9 Aleksandr Pavlov 9 Grigori Khlinovsky 8 | |
| 2 | 23 | Vlado Kocuvan 7 Ivan Molan 6 Drasko Orsic 6 Vlado Miler 4 | |
| 3 | 15 | Nedelko Nedelkov 6 Peter Iliev 4 Alexander Kostov 4 Alexej Antonov 1 | |
| 4 | 12 | Annibale Pretto 9 Gianni Pizzo 1 Giuseppe Pizzo 1 Franco Rupil 1 |
Quarter-final
- 13 June
- Rodenbach Motodrom, Rodenbach
| Pos. | National team | Pts. | Riders |
| 1 | 40 | Peter Liebing 11 Hans Jürgen Fritz 11 Dieter Tetzlaff 10 Jochen Dinse 0 | |
| 2 | 36 | Manfred Poschenreider 12 Rudolf Kastl 9 Josef Angermüller 8 Jan Käter 7 | |
| 3 | 11 | Josef Haider 5 Heinz Zimmermann 4 Gunther Walla 1 Herbert Prosi 1 Alex Taudtmann 0 | |
| 4 | 9 | Pal Perenyi 3 Barnabas Gyepes 3 Sandor Csatho 2 Ferenc Radacsi 1 Janos Szoeke 0 |
Semi-Final
| Pos. | National team | Pts. | Riders |
| 1 | 36 | Vladimir Gordeev 12 Grigori Khlinovsky 12 Aleksandr Pavlov 7 Gennady Kurilenko 5 Viktor Trofimov 0 | |
| 2 | 30 | Dieter Tetzlaff 10 Hans Jürgen Fritz 9 Peter Liebing 8 Jochen Dinse 2 Horst Krüger 1 | |
| 3 | 25 | Manfred Poschenreider 9 Jan Käter 7 Josef Angermüller 5 Dieter Dauderer 4 | |
| 4 | 5 | Ivan Molan 3 Vlado Miler 1 Drasko Orsic 0 Vlado Kocuvan 0 |
Final
| Pos. | National team | Pts. | Riders |
| 1 | 46 | Vladimir Gordeev 12 Vladimir Smirnov 11 Georgi Ivanov 11 Gennady Kurilenko 11 | |
| 2 | 30 | Edward Jancarz 9 Henryk Glücklich 9 Andrzej Wyglenda 8 Jerzy Szczakiel 4 | |
| 3 | 10.5 | Pavel Mareš 3.5 Miloslav Verner 3 Jiří Štancl 2 Jan Holub I 2 Václav Verner 0 | |
| 4 | 9.5 | Dieter Tetzlaff 5 Peter Liebing 2 Hans-Jürgen Fritz 1.5 Horst Krüger 1 Jochen Dinse 0 |
World final
| Pos. | National team | Pts. | Riders | |
| 37 | Ray Wilson - 12 Ivan Mauger - 10 Jim Airey - 9 Barry Briggs - 6 Ronnie Moore - dnr | |||
| 22 | Grigory Khlinovsky - 8 Vladimir Smirnov - 7 Vladimir Gordeev - 4 Anatoly Kuzmin - 3 Viktor Trofimov - dnr | |||
| 19 | Paweł Waloszek - 5 Henryk Glücklich - 4 Antoni Woryna - 4 Edward Jancarz - 4 Andrzej Wyglenda - 2 | |||
| 4th | 18 | Anders Michanek - 9 Sören Sjösten - 3 Bengt Jansson 3 Leif Enecrona 3 Bernt Persson 0 |