2004 Elite League speedway season

2004 Elite League speedway season
League	Sky Sports Elite League
Champions	Poole Pirates
Knockout Cup	Poole Pirates
Individual	Bjarne Pedersen
Pairs	Swindon Robins
Highest average	Tony Rickardsson
Division/s below	Premier League; Conference League
	← 2003; 2005 →;

The 2004 Elite League speedway season was the 70th season of the top division of speedway in the United Kingdom and governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA).^[1]^[2] Poole Pirates completed the double (league and cup winners) for the second year running. They were the first team to achieve this since Oxford Cheetahs in 1986.^[3]

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Home \ Away	AE	BV	COV	EAS	IPS	OX	PET	PP	SWI	WOL
Arena Essex Hammers		51–42	62–34	47–46	48–42	53–41	47–46	43–47	45–48	51–44
Belle Vue Aces	49–41		48–45	48–45	41–49	44–46	63–32	68–25	60–30	47–46
Coventry Bees	44–51	44–46		45–50	45–49	42–48	61–31	40–55	52–38	44–45
Eastbourne Eagles	53–40	57–38	55–39		50–40	47–43	50–40	51–44	60–32	45–46
Ipswich Witches	57–38	52–41	54–41	47–46		44–46	54–40	50–43	56–40	51–39
Oxford Silver Machine	52–43	52–43	71–21	53–43	44–45		54–38	65–29	53–41	40–54
Peterborough Panthers	47–46	42–48	51–42	50–46	53–44	47–43		46–46	47–46	54–41
Poole Pirates	47–43	49–42	47–45	52–44	58–34	58–37	48–45		56–38	53–43
Swindon Robins	47–42	46–47	47–46	48–42	56–37	52–44	63–31	53–39		49–47
Wolverhampton Wolves	62–30	51–42	49–41	44–45	49–44	58–35	53–39	50–40	52–44

Home \ Away	AE	BV	COV	EAS	IPS	OX	PET	PP	SWI	WOL
Arena Essex Hammers		57–40	53–41	47–43	42–48	57–38	59–36	53–40	49–43	48–42
Belle Vue Aces	57–40		50–45	44–45	50–41	57–38	n/a	47–43	48–42	50–42
Coventry Bees	52–41	45–44		49–41	45–44	58–36	53–42	46–44	43–47	41–52
Eastbourne Eagles	50–43	51–39	62–29		52–45	47–46	47–43	40–50	45–45	43–49
Ipswich Witches	49–41	55–39	54–41	63–31		55–38	52–42	50–43	49–46	41–51
Oxford Silver Machine	53–42	48–45	53–41	51–43	450–45		49–41	46–47	49–44	52–43
Peterborough Panthers	48–45	49–41	47–43	48–48	55–40	44–46		42–51	30–46	48–45
Poole Pirates	52–40	54–40	55–39	46–49	48–33	54–37	53–40		57–38	54–40
Swindon Robins	51–43	47–42	50–44	45–45	52–40	54–42	52–44	45–45		48–45
Wolverhampton Wolves	43–33	55–36	50–39	54–42	42–48	53–40	57–36	41–49	51–44

Date	Team one	Score	Team two
01/04	Coventry	42-54	Belle Vue
06/05	Swindon	56-38	Wolverhampton
22/03	Wolverhampton	50-43	Swindon

Date	Team one	Score	Team two
23/09	Swindon	48-42	Belle Vue
11/09	Eastbourne	46-48	Ipswich
12/05	Kings Lynn	56-39	Isle of Wight
06/05	Swindon	56-38	Wolverhampton
07/04	Arena Essex	48-46	Oxford
02/04	Peterborough	44-46	Poole
01/04	Coventry	42-54	Belle Vue
26/03	Oxford	47-46	Arena Essex
25/03	Ipswich	51-42	Eastbourne
24/03	Poole	58-37	Peterborough

Season summary

	= Qualified for Play Off final
	= Qualified for Play Offs

Pos.	Rider	Pts	Total	SF	Final
1	Bjarne Pedersen	3 2 2 2 2	11	2	3
2	Ryan Sullivan	3 3 3 3 2	14	x	2
3	Hans Andersen	1 3 2 3 3	12	3	1
4	Rory Schlein	3 3 2 1 3	12	x	0
5	Matej Ferjan	2 3 3 3 0	11	1
6	Mikael Max	2 2 2 3 3	12	0
7	Leigh Adams	2 2 3 1 1	9
8	Scott Nicholls	3 1 1 0 3	8
9	Adam Shields	2 1 1 2 1	7
10	David Howe	0 0 3 1 2	6
11	Davey Watt	1 1 1 2 0	5
12	Gary Havelock	0 2 0 0 2	4
13	Rafał Dobrucki	1 0 0 2 0	3
14	Chris Harris	1 1 0 0 1	3
15	Josh Larsen	0 0 1 1 1	3
16	Sebastien Trésarrieu	0 0 0 0 0	0