The 1985 Speedway World Team Cup was the 26th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.
The final took place at the Veterans Memorial Stadium (Long Beach), in California, United States. Denmark won their third consecutive title (and fifth in total) surpassing Poland's four titles and moving into third place in the all-time list.
Qualification stage 1
Day Venue Winner stage 1 12 May Bradford England 12 May Skien Denmark 12 May Civitanova Czechoslovakia 12 May Olching West Germany 22 May Gorzów Poland
Commonwealth round 12 May 12, 1985 Odsal Stadium, Bradford Att: 8,000 Ref: J M Price (GB)
* 1st & 2nd to Intercontinental Final
Scandinavian round 12 May 1985 Geiteryggen Speedwaybane, Skien
* 1st & 2nd to Intercontinental Final
1st2nd3rd4th - 43Erik Gundersen - 12 Bo Petersen - 12 Preben Eriksen - 11 Jan O. Pedersen - 5 Tommy Knudsen - 3 - 33Jan Andersson - 10 Tommy Nilsson - 8 Per Jonsson - 6 Jimmy Nilsen - 6 Pierre Brannefors - 3 - 11Frits Koppe - 5 Henny Kroeze - 3 Henk Steman - 3 Leo Bathoorn - 0 Wil Stroes - 0 - 8Dag Haaland - 3 Einar Kyllingstad - 2 Roy Otto - 2 Ingvar Skogland - 1 Arnt Førland - 0
Continental round
12 May 1985 San Savino Speedway Park, Civitanova Marche
* 1st & 2nd to Continental Semi-Final
1st2nd3rd4th - 36Václav Verner - 12 Antonín Kasper Jr. - 10 Aleš Dryml Sr. - 9 Zdenek Schneiderwind - 5 - 35Armando Castagna - 10 Armando Dal Chiele - 9 Ottaviano Righetto - 8 Giorgio Zaramella - 8 - 24Zoltán Adorján - 8 Sándor Tihanyi - 6 Zoltan Hajdu - 5 Istvan Bodi - 4 Zsolt Papp - 1 - 1Zvonko Pavlic - 1 Zvone Gerjevic - 0 Artur Horvat - 0 Franc Zagar - 0 Joze Zibert - 0
12 May 1985 Olching Speedwaybahn, Olching Att: 6,000
* 1st & 2nd to Continental Semi-Final
1st2nd3rd4th - 46Klaus Lausch - 12 Karl Maier - 12 Egon Müller - 8 Peter Wurtele - 8 Gerd Riss - 6 - 29Maciej Jaworek - 8 Wojciech Żabiałowicz - 8 Andrzej Huszcza - 6 Jerzy Rembas - 4 Zenon Plech - 3 - 16Heinrich Schatzer - 7 Toni Pilotto - 6 Siegfried Eder - 2 Adi Funk - 1 - 5Nikolai Manev - 2 Stanislav Tzankov - 2 Vesselin Markov - 1 Angel Eftimov - 0 Orlin Janakiev - 0
Semifinal
22 May 1985 Edward Jancarz Stadium, Gorzów Att: 18,000
* 1st & 2nd to Continental Final
Qualification stage 2
Day Venue Winner Stage 2 22 June Vojens Denmark 7 July Neustadt Sweden
Intercontinental Final 22 June 1985 Speedway Center, Vojens Att: 12,000 Ref: Mel Price
* Winner to Final; 2nd & 3rd to Continental Final
Continental Final 7 July 1985 Anton Treffer Stadion, Neustadt Att: 8,000
* 1st & 2nd to Final
World Final
10 August 1985 Long Beach, Veterans Memorial Stadium Att: 18,000
See also 1985 Individual Speedway World Championship 1985 Speedway World Pairs Championship
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