SGB Championship


The Speedway Great Britain Championship is the second division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom, governed by the Speedway Control Bureau, in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association. It was introduced for 2017 following a restructuring of British speedway.

Teams

Current teams

History

After the 2016 season, the Premier League was renamed to the SGB Championship for the 2017 season. The 2017 edition of the league contained ten teams who met each other twice. The top four teams at the end of the regular season qualified for the playoffs to decide the champions. All ten of the teams were from the previous season's Premier League.
In 2017, there was a short-lived relegation and promotion race-off between the Championship and the new top tier, the SGB Premiership, with the bottom team from the Premiership going into a playoff with the Championship winners. The following year in 2018, the promotion/relegation system was scrapped.

Team building

At the start of the season, teams are built up to maximum points limit. The combined Calculated Match Average of the riders declared in the team must not be higher than an agreed figure set at the British Speedway Promoters' Association Annual General Meeting.