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{{Short description|14th edition of the annual motorcycle speedway World Cup competition}}{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}{{Use British English|date=December 2023}}{{Motorsport season|title = Speedway World Team Cup|link = Speedway World Team Cup|year = 1973}}The 1973 Speedway World Team Cup was the 14th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.BOOK, Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian, The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, 1987, 290, Guinness Superlatives, 0-85112-492-5, BOOK, Oakes, Peter, 1981 Speedway Yearbook, 1981, 25-26, Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd, 0-86215-017-5, BOOK, Bott, Richard, The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4, 1980, 98, Stanley Paul & Co Ltd, 0-09-141751-1, The final took place at Wembley Stadium in London. The title was won by Great Britain for the third consecutive year and fourth time in total. The fourth win drew Britain level with Poland on four titles won but Sweden remained ahead on the number of titles won with six.WEB,weblink World Team Cup 1960-1990, Edinburgh Speedway, 13 July 2021, WEB,weblink FIM SPEEDWAY WORLD CUP/ SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS, Motor Sport Top 20, 13 July 2021, WEB,weblink 1973 WORLD TEAM CUP, International Speedway, 14 July 2021,

Qualification

Scandninavian round

• 24 June
• {{flagicon|DEN}} Fredericia Speedway Stadium, Fredericia

{| class=wikitable style="font-size:93%;"!Pos.||National team ||Pts. ||Riders align=center {{speedway color|g4}}

	{{speedway			Anders Michanek 11Tommy Jansson 9Bernt Persson 9Bengt Jansson 8

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	{{speedway			Ulf Løvaas 10Edgar Stangeland 10Dag Løvaas 8Øyvind S. Berg 7

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	{{speedway			Ole Olsen 12Kurt Bøgh 4Jens-Erik Krause-Kjaer 4Arne Andrease 3

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	{{speedway			Reino Santala 1 Ari Hiljanen 0Kari Vuoristo 0Ilkka Teromaa 0Veli-Pekka Teromaa 0

Continental round

{{Col-begin}}{{Col-2}}Quarter-Final

• 17 June
• {{flagicon|HUN}} Gázvezeték Street Sports Complex, Debrecen

{| class=wikitable style="font-size:93%;"!Pos.||National team ||Pts. ||Riders align=center {{speedway color|g4}}

	{{speedway			Josef Angermüller 12Manfred Poschenreider 12Hans Siegl 10Egon Müller 6Jan Käter 5

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	{{speedway			Barnabas Gyepes 7Janos Berki 7Pal Perenyi 6Ferenc Radacsi 3Tibor Danka 1

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	{{speedway			Miroslav RosulekJan KlokockaPetr KuceraJan HolubKarel Vobornik

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	{{speedway			Josef Bössner 3Heinz Zimmermann 2Josef Haider 1Walter Detter 0

• Czechoslovakia II replaced Italy

{{Col-2}}Quarter-Final

• 17 June
• {{flagicon|YUG}} Kovinar Stadium, Maribor{| class=wikitable style="font-size:93%;"

!Pos.||National team ||Pts. ||Riders align=center {{speedway color|g4}}

	{{speedway			Milan Špinka 12Jiří Štancl 12Petr Ondrašík 12Miloslav Verner 11

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	{{speedway			Peter Petkov 8Peter Iliev 6Angel Eftimov 6Peter Kostov 4

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	{{speedway			Vlado Miler 6Stefan Kekec 4Alojz Vurzer 3Milovan Stankovic 2

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	{{speedway			Walter Grubmüller 4Josef Scharl 3Michael Lausegger 3Alex Taudtmann 0

Austria II replaced East Germany{{Col-end}}{{Col-begin}}{{Col-2}}Semi-Final

• 30 June
• {{flagicon|CSK}} Markéta Stadium, Prague{| class=wikitable style="font-size:93%;"

!Pos.||National team ||Pts. ||Riders align=center {{speedway color|g4}}

	{{speedway			Jiří Štancl 12Milan Špinka 9Petr Ondrašík 9Jan Klokocka 6Václav Verner 6

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	{{speedway			Pal Perenyi 8Janos Berki 7Istvan Sziraczky 6Barnabas Gyepes 3

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	{{speedway			Hans Siegl 8Egon Müller 7Manfred Poschenreider 2Jan Käter 1

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	{{speedway			Angel Eftimov 4Peter Petkov 3Peter Iliev 2Nedjelko Nedjelkov 2

{{Col-2}}Final

• 5 August
• {{flagicon|USSR}} Trud Stadium, Balakovo{| class=wikitable style="font-size:93%;"

!Pos.||National team ||Pts. ||Riders align=center {{speedway color|g4}}

	{{speedway			Valery Gordeev 11Grigory Khlinovsky 9Viktor Kalmikov 7Yury Dubinin 6Vladimir Paznikov 2

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	{{speedway			Edward Jancarz 9Zenon Plech 9Jan Mucha 8Ryszard Fabiszewski 4Paweł Waloszek 1

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	{{speedway			Jiří Štancl 7Petr Ondrašík 7Milan Špinka 5Zdeněk Majstr 4

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	{{speedway			Janos Berki 4Ferenc Radacsi 1Laszlo Zahoran 1Jozsef Szabo 0Istvan Sziraczki 0

{{Col-end}}

World final

• 15 September
• {{flagicon|ENG}} Wembley Stadium, London

{| class=wikitable style="font-size:100%;"!Pos. || ||National team ||Pts. ||Riders align=center {{speedway color|p1}}

Image:Gold medal icon.svg>1st	{{speedway color		align=left	GBR}}	37	align=left|Peter Collins - 12John Louis - 9Ray Wilson - 8Terry Betts - 8Dave Jessup - dnr

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Image:Silver medal icon.svg>2nd	{{speedway color		align=left	SWE}}	31	align=left|Anders Michanek - 11Bernt Persson - 9Bengt Jansson 6Tommy Jansson 5Sören Sjösten dnr

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Image:Bronze medal icon.svg>3rd	{{speedway color		align=left	USSR}}	20	align=left|Valery Gordeev - 7Vladimir Paznikov - 5Grigory Khlinovsky - 4Aleksandr Pavlov - 2Viktor Trofimov - 2

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	}}		{{speedway		8 >	Zenon Plech - 5Edward Jancarz - 2Paweł Waloszek - 1Jerzy Szczakiel - 0Jan Mucha - dnr

See also

• 1973 Individual Speedway World Championship
• 1973 Speedway World Pairs Championship

References

{{Reflist}}{{Speedway World Cup seasons}}