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The 1971 Speedway World Team Cup was the 12th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.

The final took place at Stadion Olimpijski (Wrocław) in Poland. The title was won by Great Britain for the second time.

Qualifying

British round

• Great Britain (including Commonwealth riders) seeded to World Final.

Scandinavian round

• 20 June
• Fredericia Speedway Stadium, Fredericia

Pos.	National team	Pts.	Riders
1	Sweden	41	Anders Michanek 11 Bernt Persson 11 Bengt Jansson 10 Sören Sjösten 7 Leif Enecrona 2
2	Denmark	33	Ole Olsen 12 Neils Weiss 8 Bent Nørregaard-Jensen 7 Kurt Bøgh 6 Jorn Mogensen 0
3	Norway	21	Reidar Eide 6 Ulf Lovaas 6 Odd Fossengen 5 Oyvind S. Berg 3 Svein Kaasa 1
4	Finland	1	Matti Olin 1 Erkki Hannula 0 Reima Lohkovuori 0 Jouko Naskali 0 Tapio Leppasalko 0

Continental round

Quarter-Final 13 June Kovinar Stadium, Maribor Pos. National team Pts. Riders 1  Soviet Union 46 Viktor Trofimov 9 Gennady Kurilenko 9 Anatoly Kuzmin 9 Aleksandr Pavlov 9 Grigori Khlinovsky 8 2  Yugoslavia 23 Vlado Kocuvan 7 Ivan Molan 6 Drasko Orsic 6 Vlado Miler 4 3  Bulgaria 15 Nedelko Nedelkov 6 Peter Iliev 4 Alexander Kostov 4 Alexej Antonov 1 4  Italy 12 Annibale Pretto 9 Gianni Pizzo 1 Giuseppe Pizzo 1 Franco Rupil 1

Quarter-final 13 June Rodenbach Motodrom, Rodenbach Pos. National team Pts. Riders 1  East Germany 40 Peter Liebing 11 Hans Jürgen Fritz 11 Dieter Tetzlaff 10 Jochen Dinse 0 2  West Germany 36 Manfred Poschenreider 12 Rudolf Kastl 9 Josef Angermüller 8 Jan Käter 7 3  Austria 11 Josef Haider 5 Heinz Zimmermann 4 Gunther Walla 1 Herbert Prosi 1 Alex Taudtmann 0 4  Hungary 9 Pal Perenyi 3 Barnabas Gyepes 3 Sandor Csatho 2 Ferenc Radacsi 1 Janos Szoeke 0

Semi-Final 4 July Illerstadion, Kempten Pos. National team Pts. Riders 1  Soviet Union 36 Vladimir Gordeev 12 Grigori Khlinovsky 12 Aleksandr Pavlov 7 Gennady Kurilenko 5 Viktor Trofimov 0 2  East Germany 30 Dieter Tetzlaff 10 Hans Jürgen Fritz 9 Peter Liebing 8 Jochen Dinse 2 Horst Krüger 1 3  West Germany 25 Manfred Poschenreider 9 Jan Käter 7 Josef Angermüller 5 Dieter Dauderer 4 4  Yugoslavia 5 Ivan Molan 3 Vlado Miler 1 Drasko Orsic 0 Vlado Kocuvan 0

Final 25 August Leningrad Speedway Stadium, Leningrad Pos. National team Pts. Riders 1  Soviet Union 46 Vladimir Gordeev 12 Vladimir Smirnov 11 Georgi Ivanov 11 Gennady Kurilenko 11 2  Poland 30 Edward Jancarz 9 Henryk Glücklich 9 Andrzej Wyglenda 8 Jerzy Szczakiel 4 3  Czechoslovakia 10.5 Pavel Mareš 3.5 Miloslav Verner 3 Jiří Štancl 2 Jan Holub I 2 Václav Verner 0 4  East Germany 9.5 Dieter Tetzlaff 5 Peter Liebing 2 Hans-Jürgen Fritz 1.5 Horst Krüger 1 Jochen Dinse 0

World final

• 26 September
• Olympic Stadium

Pos.		National team	Pts.	Riders
		Great Britain	37	Ray Wilson - 12 Ivan Mauger - 10 Jim Airey - 9 Barry Briggs - 6 Ronnie Moore - dnr
		Soviet Union	22	Grigory Khlinovsky - 8 Vladimir Smirnov - 7 Vladimir Gordeev - 4 Anatoly Kuzmin - 3 Viktor Trofimov - dnr
		Poland	19	Paweł Waloszek - 5 Henryk Glücklich - 4 Antoni Woryna - 4 Edward Jancarz - 4 Andrzej Wyglenda - 2
4th		Sweden	18	Anders Michanek - 9 Sören Sjösten - 3 Bengt Jansson 3 Leif Enecrona 3 Bernt Persson 0

See also

• 1971 Individual Speedway World Championship
• 1971 Speedway World Pairs Championship

References

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