{{Short description|Ukrainian motorcycle speedway team}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Use British English|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox motorcycle speedway team |clubname = Rivne Speedway |image = [[File:Speedway-Rivne.png|100px]] |track = [[Rivne Speedway Stadium]]<br>Volodymyr Stelmakh St, 3<br>[[Rivne]], Rivne Oblast |country = Ukraine |founded = 1959 |closed = |manager = |captain = |league = |website = |colours = |tracksize = 360 metres |track record time= 65.18 sec |track record date= 2019 |track record holder= [[Jan Kvěch]] |honour1 = [[Russian Team Speedway Championship|Soviet Union]] champions |year1 = 1985, 1986, 1987, 1992 |honour2 = [[Russian Team Speedway Championship|Soviet Union]] bronze medal |year2 = 1962, 1966 |honour3 = [[European Speedway Club Champions' Cup|European Club Champions]] |year3 = 2009 }}
'''Rivne Speedway''' or Rivne City Sports and Technical Club, is a Ukrainian [[motorcycle speedway]] team based in [[Rivne]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://speedway-rivne.at.ua/news/likha_beda_nachalo/2011-04-18-1305 |title=The Bad trouble began |website=Speedway Rivne |access-date=11 April 2024}}</ref>
== Stadium == [[Rivne Speedway Stadium]] is located at Volodymyr Stelmakh St, 3, in Rivne. Its capacity is 15,000 and the track is 360 metres in circumference.
== History == The club began league speedway in 1962, as part of the inaugural [[Russian Team Speedway Championship|Soviet Union Championship]] and won the bronze medal during the first year of competition.<ref name=SU>{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/dmzsrr.php |title=Soviet Union Team Championship |website=Speedway History |access-date=11 April 2024}}</ref> During the initial 18 years of league competition, the team used the name '''Raduga Rivne''', the origins of which were either a name chosen by the Soviet authorities to promote companies (which was common practice for sports teams at the time) or simply the name chosen by the club translating as Rainbow. However, the team won another bronze medal during that period in 1966.<ref name=SU/>
The team did not compete in the league during 1979 but returned in 1980, racing as '''Signal Rivne'''. The stadium that the club were based at underwent a significant reconstruction in 1983, which propelled the team to success, helping them win the championship of the Soviet Union for three consecutive years from 1985 to 1987.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://speedwayfansite.com/ligi/rosyjskaliga.html |title=Soviet Union & Russian Team Championship |website=Speedway Fansite |access-date=11 April 2024}}</ref>
It was not until the fall of [[Real socialism]] in the [[Eastern Bloc]] countries, that clubs began to choose names of their own, Signal Rivne became '''Fantastic Rivne''' and they won the final championship under the Soviet Union flag.<ref name=SU/>
Following the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] the team were left in limbo due to the lack of a serious team competition in Ukraine but did race in the now defunct [[European Speedway Club Champions' Cup]] under various names. It was not until 2003 that they were accepted into the [[Russian Team Speedway Championship]], competing as '''Ukraine Rivne''' until the end of the 2006 season.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/dmrosji.php |title=Russian Team Championship |website=Speedway History |access-date=11 April 2024}}</ref> The team withdrew from the Russian leagues to join the [[Team Speedway Polish Championship]] but struggled financially to survive in the [[Polish Speedway Second League|2.Liga]]. They did however win the [[2009 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.speedway.hg.pl/zyx_dodatek_specjalny/turnieje_m_narod_historia/KPE.htm |title=Klubowy Puchar Europy |website=Speedway.hg |access-date=16 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/klubowype.php |title=Historical statement of results 1998-2012 |website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego |access-date=15 March 2024}}</ref>
Since 2011, the team have sporadically raced, participating in events such as the Speedway Friendship Cup, featuring clubs from Europe.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://moguloil.com.ua/en/index.php?route=information/news&news_id=104 |title=International League 'SPEEDWAY FRIENDSHIP CUP' |website=Mogul Oil |access-date=11 April 2024}}</ref>
Following the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] in February 2022, the future of the club is unknown.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eurosport.com/speedway/speedway-of-nations-2022-the-situation-is-very-hard-ukraine-s-stanislav-melnychuk-hopes-to-honour-wa_sto9063200/story.shtml |title=Speedway of Nations 2022 |website=Eurosport |access-date=11 April 2024}}</ref>
== Results == '''Champions' Cup competition''' *[[1998 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup|1998]] - 6th place (as SC Rivne) *[[1999 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup|1999]] - 7th place (as SC Rivne) *[[2000 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup|2000]] - 7th place (as Signal Rivne) *[[2001 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup|2001]] - 6th place (as Tekhnik Rivne) *[[2004 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup|2004]] - 8th place (as SK Trofimov) *[[2005 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup|2005]] - 6th place (as SK Rivne) *[[2006 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup|2006]] - =6th place (as Ukraina Rivne) *[[2007 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup|2007]] - =9th place (as Ukraina Rivne) *[[2009 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup|2009]] - '''champions''' (as Kaskad Rivne)
'''Polish Speedway Championship''' *[[2005 Polish speedway season|2005]] - 3rd in [[Polish Speedway Second League|2.Liga]] *[[2006 Polish speedway season|2006]] - 5th in [[Polish Speedway Second League|2.Liga]] *[[2008 Polish speedway season|2008]] - 3rd in [[Polish Speedway Second League|2.Liga]] *[[2011 Polish speedway season|2011]] - 6th in [[Polish Speedway Second League|2.Liga]]
== References == {{Reflist}} {{Polish speedway teams}} [[Category:Speedway in Ukraine]] [[Category:Sport in Rivne]]