Format


Qualifying round		Semifinals		Final

		Hillerød, Denmark (details)

		Sweden	44

		Denmark	27

Kraków, Poland (details)		Finland	15	Abensberg, West Germany (details)

Poland	45	Norway	10	Sweden	34

Czechoslovakia	33			Soviet Union	25

West Germany	14	Lviv, Soviet Union (details)		Great Britain*	21

Austria	4	Soviet Union	37	Poland	16

		Poland	34

Svetozarevo, Yugoslavia (details)		Czechoslovakia	23

Soviet Union	40	Yugoslavia	2

Bulgaria	24

Yugoslavia	12

East Germany	12

* Great Britain seeded to the final

Qualification

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Poland	45	Andrzej Wyglenda - 12 (3,3,3,3) Andrzej Pogorzelski - 12 (3,3,3,3) Zbigniew Podlecki - 11 Marian Kaiser - 10 Edmund Migoś - NS
	Czechoslovakia	33	Stanislav Kubíček - 9 Antonín Kasper Sr. - 8 Karel Průša - 8 Jaroslav Volf - 8 Frantisek Ledecky - NS
	West Germany	14	Manfred Poschenreider - 6 Alfred Aberl - 3 Alois Frach - 3 Otto Lantenhammer - 2 Sebastian Wiesent - NS
4	Austria	4	Kurt Schwingenschlögl - 2 Gunther Walla - 1 Ludwig Löscher - 1 Ernst Glassner - 0

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Soviet Union	48	Igor Plekhanov - 12 (3,3,3,3) Boris Samorodov - 12 (3,3,3,3) Gennady Kurilenko - 12 (3,3,3,3) Vitaly Shilo - 12 (3,3,3,3)
	Bulgaria	24	Milko Pejkov - 8 Gavril Macev - 8 Simeon Lukanov - 4 Krasimir Sokolov - 4
	Yugoslavia	12	Slobodan Dzudovic - 5 Valentin Medved - 3 Drago Perko - 2 Drago Regvard - 2
4	East Germany	12	Günther Schelenz - 5 Jochen Dinse - 5 Peter Hehlert - 2 Jürgen Hehlert - NS

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Sweden	44	Björn Knutson - 12 (3,3,3,3) Göte Nordin - 12 (3,3,3,3) Rune Sörmander - 12 (3,3,3,3) Per Tage Svensson - 6 Per Olof Söderman - 2
	Denmark	27	Kurt W. Petersen - 9 Paul Wissing - 7 John S. Andersen - 6 Hans P. Boysen - 5 Ole Kläbel - NS
	Finland	15	Kalevi Lahtinen - 7 Ilkka Helminen - 5 Matti Olin - 3 Taisto Mattila - 0 Veikko Metsähuone - NS
4	Norway	10	Reidar Eide - 5 Per Aulie - 3 Cato Agnor - 1 Jonny Faafeng - 1 Henry Harrfeldt - NS

(Yugoslavia replaced Bulgaria)

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Soviet Union	37	Igor Plekhanov - 12 (3,3,3,3) Boris Samorodov - 11 Gennady Kurilenko - 8 Yuri Chekranov - 6 Gabdrakhman Kadyrov - NS
	Poland	34	Andrzej Wyglenda - 10 Andrzej Pogorzelski - 9 Zbigniew Podlecki - 9 Marian Kaiser - 4 Antoni Woryna - 2
	Czechoslovakia	23	Antonín Kasper Sr. - 8 Stanislav Kubíček - 5 Jaroslav Volf - 5 Psvel Mares - 3 Frantisek Ledecky - 2
4	Yugoslavia	2	Franc Babic - 1 Valentin Medved - 1 Drago Perko - 0 Drago Regvard - 0 Ivan Molan - NS

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
	Sweden	34	Björn Knutson - 11 (3,3,2,3) Göte Nordin - 10 (3,2,2,3) Rune Sörmander - 7 (3,2,2,0) Ove Fundin - 6 (0,-,3,3) Sören Sjösten - 0 (-,0,-,-)
	Soviet Union	25	Igor Plekhanov - 8 (2,3,1,2) Gennady Kurilenko - 8 (2,1,3,2) Yuri Chekranov - 6 (2,2,1,1) Boris Samorodov - 3 (2,1,0,0) Viktor Trofimov - NS
	Great Britain	21	Barry Briggs - 9 (3,3,1,2) Ken McKinlay - 7 (1,3,3,0) Nigel Boocock - 3 (1,1,1,-) Ron How - 2 (1,-,0,1) Brian Brett - 0 (-,0,-,0)
4	Poland	16	Andrzej Wyglenda - 8 (0,2,3,3) Andrzej Pogorzelski - 3 (0,0,2,1) Zbigniew Podlecki - 3 (1,1,1,0) Marian Rose - 2 (-,0,0,2) Marian Kaiser - 0 (0,-,-,-)

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v t e Speedway World Team Cup and Speedway World Cup
Speedway World Team Cup	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Speedway World Cup (SWC)	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2023
See also	Host cities Medalists Medal classification
Speedway World Pairs Championship Speedway of Nations