In the 1950s motorcycle speedway became one of Swedens most popular team sports where each fixture often was viewed by audiences between 10000 and 20000 people. The Swedish speedway league was founded a few years earlier in 1948 and was inspired by British speedway including adopting the British teams nicknames in Swedish versions. For instance the Norrköping team became Vargarna (English: "The Wolves"), the Eskilstuna team became Smederna (English: "The Blacksmiths") and the club Motorsällskapet became Getingarna (English: "The Wasps"). As popularity of the sport grew there were many new clubs founded all around Sweden and during the 1950s more than 30 different clubs competed at least one season in the league system. Unfortunately many of these new teams were short lived and only survived a few years but one can still find some of those new teams of the 1950s in today's Elitserien.
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League tables of 1950
This year Smålänningarna changed name to Dackarna and GEMA changed name to Kaparna
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Division 2 A
Division 2 B
Division 2 C
League tables of 1951
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Division 2 East
Division 2 West
League tables of 1952
This year Falkarna changed name to Knallarna, Hyllingarna changed name to Stenbockarna and Solkatterna changed name to Kavaljererna
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Division 2
League tables of 1953
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Division 2
League tables of 1954
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League tables of 1955
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League tables of 1956
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League tables of 1957
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League tables of 1958
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League tables of 1959
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Division 2