2016 Premier League speedway season

The 2016 Premier League season was the second division of British speedway. The title was won by Somerset Rebels who defeated Sheffield Tigers in the Grand Final.^[1][2][3][4]

2016 Premier League speedway season

Champions	Somerset Rebels
Knockout Cup	Glasgow Tigers
Individual	Simon Stead
Pairs	Somerset Rebels
Fours	Plymouth Devils
Highest average	Craig Cook
Division/s above	2016 Elite League
Division/s below	2016 National League
← 2015 2017 →

Final league table

^[5]

Pos	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	4w	3w	D	1L	L	For	Against	Points
1	Somerset Rebels	24	12	0	0	1	6	1	0	4	1192	998	60
2	Glasgow Tigers	24	11	0	1	4	2	0	2	4	1212	962	57
3	Newcastle Diamonds	24	12	0	0	2	2	0	3	5	1171	989	53
4	Edinburgh Monarchs	24	11	0	1	1	2	0	4	5	1088	1043	47
5	Ipswich Witches	24	10	0	2	1	1	1	1	8	1136	1057	40
6	Sheffield Tigers	24	10	1	1	1	1	1	0	9	1080	1104	40
7	Workington Comets	24	11	0	1	0	1	1	0	10	1058	1126	38
8	Peterborough Panthers	24	6	1	5	3	2	0	1	6	1056	1131	38
9	Rye House Rockets	24	7	2	3	1	0	0	4	7	1042	1114	31
10	Berwick Bandits	24	7	1	4	1	0	1	1	9	1042	1097	29
11	Scunthorpe Scorpions	24	7	0	5	0	1	0	2	9	1017	1160	26
12	Plymouth Devils	24	8	0	4	0	0	0	1	11	992	1126	25
13	Redcar Bears	24	5	1	6	0	0	1	3	8	997	1176	21

Scoring

• Home draw = 1 point
• Home win by any number of points = 3
• Away loss by 6 points or less = 1
• Away draw = 2
• Away win by between 1 and 6 points = 3
• Away win by 7 points or more = 4

Play-offs

Quarter-finals

Team one	Team two	First Leg	Second Leg	Aggregate
Ipswich	Edinburgh	58-32	37-53	95-85
Sheffield	Newcastle	48-42	44-46	92-88

Semi-finals

Team one	Team two	First Leg	Second Leg	Aggregate
Somerset	Ipswich	53-37	49-41	102-78
Sheffield	Glasgow	49-41	42-48	91-87

Play Off final

First leg

24 October 2014

Sheffield Tigers Kyle Howarth 13 Stuart Robson 12 Arthur Sissis 6 Josh Bates 6 Ricky Wells 4 Nathan Greaves 3 Simon Stead R/R	44 – 46	Somerset Rebels Josh Grajczonek 12 Rohan Tungate 12 Paul Starke 7 Charles Wright 6 Robert Branford 4 James Shanes 3 Jake Allen 3
	^[4]^[6]

Owlerton Stadium

Second leg

25 October 2014

Somerset Rebels Rohan Tungate 12 Josh Grajczonek 11 Paul Starke 11 Charles Wright 8 Robert Branford 6 Jake Allen 5 James Shanes 2	54 – 36	Sheffield Tigers Ricky Wells 11 Kyle Howarth 9 Stuart Robson 8 Arthur Sissis 5 Josh Bates 3 Nathan Greaves 0 Dimitri Bergé R/R
	^[4]^[7]

Oaktree Arena

Somerset were declared League Champions, winning on aggregate 100–80.

Final Leading averages

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Rider	Team	Average
Craig Cook	Peterborough	9.83
Danny King	Ipswich	9.57
Edward Kennett	Rye House	9.27
Rohan Tungate	Somerset	9.03
Sam Masters	Edinburgh	8.97
Robert Lambert	Newcastle	8.92
Josh Grajczonek	Somerset	8.90
Aaron Summers	Glasgow	8.57
Jason Garrity	Sheffield	8.55
Richie Worrall	Glasgow	8.49

Knockout Cup

The 2016 Premier League Knockout Cup was the 49th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. It was the last time it would be known as the Premier League Knockout Cup because the following season it would be the SGB Championship Knockout Cup.

Glasgow Tigers were the winners of the competition.^[9]

First round

Date	Team one	Score	Team two
02/05	Scunthorpe	50-40	Newcastle
06/05	Somerset	52-38	Workington
12/05	Ipswich	46-44	Rye House
13/05	Edinburgh	54-36	Plymouth
14/05	Plymouth	47-42	Edinburgh
14/05	Rye House	53-37	Ipswich
14/05	Workington	44-46	Somerset
22/05	Glasgow	60-29	Redcar
26/05	Redcar	40-50	Glasgow
11/07	Newcastle	57-32	Scunthorpe

Quarter-finals

Date	Team one	Score	Team two
03/07	Peterborough	38-52	Somerset
28/06	Somerset	62-28	Peterborough
17/07	Newcastle	62-28	Sheffield
21/07	Sheffield	45-45	Newcastle
31/07	Glasgow	54-30	Edinburgh
06/08	Berwick	53-37	Rye House
29/08	Rye House	54-36	Berwick
26/08	Edinburgh	48-41	Glasgow

Semi-finals

Date	Team one	Score	Team two
09/10	Newcastle	47-43	Rye House
07/10	Rye House	47-43	Newcastle
08/10	Glasgow	50-39	Somerset
23/09	Somerset	34-38	Glasgow

Final

First leg

23 October 2016

Newcastle Diamonds Robert Lambert 14 Steve Worrall 10 Ashley Morris 10 Ludvig Lindgren 9 Victor Palovaara 2 Danny Phillips 0 Matej Kus 0	45 – 45	Glasgow Tigers Richie Worrall 9 Rene Bach 8 Aaron Summers 7 Richard Lawson 7 Danny Ayres 6 Nike Lunna 5 Mitchell Davey 3
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Newcastle Stadium

Second leg

24 October 2016

Glasgow Tigers Richard Lawson 12 Richie Worrall 11 Aaron Summers 11 Arthur Sissis 10 Rene Bach 8 Nike Lunna 7 Danny Ayres 0	59 – 31	Newcastle Diamonds Robert Lambert 10 Steve Worrall 7 Ludvig Lindgren 5 Ashley Morris 4 Danny Phillips 3 Victor Palovaara 2 Matej Kus R/R
	^[4]^[11]

Ashfield Stadium

Glasgow were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 104–76.

Teams

Berwick Bandits

•   Sebastian Aldén
•   Henning Bager
•   Liam Carr
•   Kevin Doolan
•   Dany Gappmaier
•   Romano Hummel
•   Anders Mellgren
•   Thomas Jørgensen
•   Tom Perry
•   Theo Pijper
•   Dawid Stachyra
•   Matthew Wethers

Edinburgh Monarchs

•   Daniel Bewley
•   Max Clegg
•   Jye Etheridge
•   Ryan Fisher
•   Sam Masters
•   Erik Riss
•   Mark Riss
•   Kevin Wölbert

Glasgow Tigers

•   Danny Ayres
•   René Bach
•   Ben Barker
•   Coty Garcia
•   Richard Lawson
•   Nike Lunna
•   Aaron Summers
•   Richie Worrall

Ipswich Witches

•   Ben Barker
•   Michele Paco Castagna
•   Nico Covatti
•   Oliver Greenwood
•   Danyon Hume
•   Joe Jacobs
•   Lewis Kerr
•   Danny King
•   Morten Risager
•   Darryl Ritchings
•   James Sarjeant

Newcastle Diamonds

•   Tero Aarnio
•   Matěj Kůs
•   Robert Lambert
•   Ludvig Lindgren
•   Ashley Morris
•   Victor Palovaara
•   Danny Phillips
•   Lewis Rose
•   Steve Worrall

Peterborough Panthers

•   Lasse Bjerre
•   Craig Cook
•   Emil Grøndal
•   Richard Hall
•   Danny Halsey
•   Zdeněk Holub
•   Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen
•   Simon Lambert
•   Ashley Morris
•   Ulrich Østergaard
•   Michael Palm Toft
•   Tom Perry
•   Nicklas Porsing
•   Tom Stokes
•   Anders Thomsen

Plymouth Devils

•   Steve Boxall
•   Charlie Gjedde
•   Jack Holder
•   Brady Kurtz
•   Todd Kurtz
•   Kyle Newman
•   Stefan Nielsen
•   Ellis Perks
•   Zdeněk Simota

Redcar Bears

•   Jonas B. Andersen
•   David Bellego
•   Lasse Bjerre
•   Jacob Bukhave
•   Tobias Busch
•   Jye Etheridge
•   Simon Nielsen
•   Lee Payne
•   Hugh Skidmore

Rye House Rockets

•   Robert Branford
•   Cameron Heeps
•   Peter Karger
•   Edward Kennett
•   Leigh Lanham
•   Ben Morley
•   Kasper Lykke
•   Stuart Robson

Scunthorpe Scorpions

•   Josh Auty
•   Josh Bailey
•   Alex Davies
•   Ryan Douglas
•   Zdeněk Holub
•   Lewis Kerr
•   Nicolai Klindt
•   Andreas Lyager
•   Ashley Morris
•   Michael Palm Toft
•   Fritz Wallner
•   Carl Wilkinson

Sheffield Tigers

•   Josh Bates
•   Dimitri Bergé
•   Jason Garrity
•   Nathan Greaves
•   Richard Hall
•   Kyle Howarth
•   Arthur Sissis
•   Simon Stead

Somerset Rebels

•   Jake Allen
•   Bradley Wilson-Dean
•   Josh Grajczonek
•   Paul Starke
•   Rohan Tungate
•   Zach Wajknecht
•   Charles Wright

Workington Comets

•   Mason Campton
•   Kenneth Hansen
•   Rasmus Jensen
•   Adam Roynon
•   Claus Vissing
•   Ricky Wells
•   Matt Williamson

See also

• List of United Kingdom Speedway League Champions
• Knockout Cup (speedway)

References

1. "2016 PLAY-OFF FIXTURES & RESULTS". Speedway GB.
2. "Roll of Honour". Somerset Rebels.
3. "BRITISH LEAGUE TABLES - MODERN ERA (1991-PRESENT)". Official British Speedway website. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
4. "2016 results" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
5. "Premier League Table". Speedway GB.
6. "2016 Play Off 1st Leg" (PDF). Official British Speedway website. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
7. "2016 Play Off 2nd Leg" (PDF). Official British Speedway website. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
8. "Greensheet Averages" (PDF). Speedway GB.
9. "2016 Premier League Knockout Cup". Speedway archive.
10. "KO Cup final 1st leg" (PDF). Official British Speedway website. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
11. "KO Cup final 2nd leg" (PDF). Official British Speedway website. Retrieved 3 October 2021.