Championship structure confirmed for 2027 season

NEWS Tuesday 10th November 2026, 9:00am

by British Speedway Press Office

  Edinburgh Monarchs

British Speedway's Championship will race into 2027 with an unchanged line-up of clubs battling for silverware in three competitions. Find out the full league structure for next season now.

All nine clubs return to the tapes once again with stability in the overall league structure and format.

The competitive nature of the Championship saw the three Finals in 2026 contested by a total of five different clubs, and there is no change to the points limit for next season which remains at 40.

Poole will defend the league title and the BSN Series, which continues to run with a mini-league format prior to the semi-finals, whilst KO Cup holders Berwick will enter next year's competition with a tie against the winners of a Round 1 clash between Edinburgh and Scunthorpe.

Key details for the 2027 Championship season are as follows:

  • League Membership: Berwick, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford, Plymouth, Poole, Redcar, Scunthorpe, Workington.
  • Points Limit: Remains at 40 points for a team of seven riders, with no further restrictions concerning team make-up. The requirement to track a maximum of one rider with a starting average of over 8.00 has been removed.
  • League Format: Remains at one home, one away with the top four teams in the league table qualifying for the play-offs.
  • KO Cup Draw: Round 1: Edinburgh v Scunthorpe; Quarter Finals: Plymouth v Workington, Poole v Oxford, Glasgow v Redcar, Berwick v Edinburgh/Scunthorpe.
  • BSN Series: Unchanged mini-league format: Scottish – Berwick, Edinburgh, Glasgow; Northern – Redcar, Scunthorpe, Workington; Southern – Oxford, Plymouth, Poole. Group winners and the best runners-up will qualify for the semi-finals.

British Speedway chairman Rob Godfrey said, "The Championship is a hugely competitive product, and we saw it again this year with so many clubs in contention for major honours.

"The fact that two clubs who finished outside the top four in the league made it all the way through to the KO Cup Final just shows that every team can go into a new season with a realistic chance of success, and they can all pull off big results regardless of the opposition.

"With all nine clubs declared to compete again in 2027 the league has stability, and we all feel it is running at an appropriate level, hence there was no desire to make wholesale changes for next year.

"I'm very pleased that everyone is returning and the clubs can now press on with team building for what should be another close and hard-fought season."

All regulation changes are subject to ratification by the Speedway Control Bureau.