Craven Shield

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Craven Shield
Sport	Speedway
Founded	1997
No. of teams	9 Elite League Teams
Country(ies)	Great Britain
Most recent champion(s)	Coventry Bees
Official website	BSPA Website

The Craven Shield is a Speedway cup competition in the United Kingdom governed by the Speedway Control Board (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). It is named in memory of Peter Craven, a British speedway rider and twice FIM World Champion, who was killed after a racing accident in 1963.

In recent years the competition has been held as an Elite League three-team tournament, with each team staging a leg on their own track and aggregate scores deciding the final placings. The format was changed in 2008. There will be three mini leagues of 3 teams with the best team overall of the 3 leagues progressing directly to the final. The semi final will be contested by the other two league winners over two meetings home and away, with the winner progressing to the final.^[1]

[edit] Past Winners

Year	Winners
1997	Coventry Bees
1998	Ipswich Witches
1999	Peterborough Panthers
2000	Coventry Bees
2001	Poole Pirates
2002	Poole Pirates
2003	Competition not held
2004	Hull Vikings
2005	Oxford Cheetahs
2006	Poole Pirates
2007	Coventry Bees