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Plzeň speedway track

stadium in Plzeň, Czech Republic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ124458913 ↗
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Plzeň speedway track is a motorcycle speedway track in Plzeň, Czech Republic. It is located on the Dobřanská road, off the Univerzitní road. The speedway club PK Plzeň is based at the track.

History

The track was constructed during the beginning of 1959 and was completed in 1960. The opening fixture was a match between Plzeň and RH Prague on 17 July 1960.

The venue has hosted major speedway events, including the qualifying rounds of the 1960 Speedway World Team Cup, which attracted over 10,000 spectators and the 1961 Speedway World Team Cup.

In 2015, the track hosted the Team Junior European Championship and most recently the qualifying round of the 2022 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship was held at the venue.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 1960, 1961, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Plzeň, speedway and track providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Plzeň speedway track” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.