The 1972 Speedway World Team Cup was the 13th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.
The title was won by Great Britain for the third time.
[4][5][6] Hasse Holmqvist 10 Christer Löfqvist 10 Jan Simensen 9 Bernt Persson 8 Ole Olsen 11 Kurt Bøgh 7 Bent Nørregaard-Jensen 5 Nils Schelde 1 Henning Hansen 1 Reidar Eide 9 Odd Fossengen 4 Dag Løvaas 4 Edgar Stangeland 3 Svein Kaasa 3 Hannu Känkänen 3 Kari Vuoristo 3 Haki Ahonen 3 Kakio Leppåsalko 1 Pekka Paljakka 1 Quarter-Final Jiří Štancl 12 Jan Holub I 12 Václav Verner 12 Petr Ondrašík 6 Miloslav Verner 6 Peter Iliev 8 Nedjelko Nedjelkov 7 Peter Kostov 5 Angel Eftimov 3 Drasko Orsic 7 Evald Babic 6 Vlado Miler 6 Josip Francic 3 Milija Stojkovic 1 Stefan Kekec 1 Janez Tomazic 1 Jose Lazbaher 0 Quarter Final Manfred Poschenreider 12 Rudi Kastl 11 Josef Angermüller 9 Jan Käter 7 Gunther Walla 7 Heinz Zimmermann 4 Josef Haider 4 Alex Taudtmann 2 Ferencs Radacsi 7 Barnabas Gyepes 5 Pal Perenyi 4 Sandor Csatho 1 Jorn Mogensen 10 Stefan Salomonsson 6 Stefan Johansson 6 Erik Tilgaard 1
Semi-Final Milan Špinka 12 Zdeněk Majstr 9 Petr Ondrašík 9 Václav Verner 9 Jiří Štancl 8 Josef Angermüller 9 Jan Käter 8 Manfred Poschenreider 8 Rudolf Kastl 7 Nedjelko Nedjelkov 4 Peter Iliev 3 Peter Petkov 3 Alexander Kostov 0 Josef Haider 5 Gunther Walla 1 Alex Taudtmann 1 Michael Laussegger 1 Heinz Zimmermann 0 Final Zenon Plech 12 Henryk Glücklich 10 Paweł Waloszek 7 Edward Jancarz 6 Jerzy Gryt 5 Anatoli Kuzmin 11 Georgi Ivanov 9 Grigori Khlinovsky 6 Viktor Kalmikov 6 Gennady Kurilenko 1 Jan Holub I 5 Zdeněk Majstr 3 Petr Ondrašík 3 Milan Špinka 1 Jiří Štancl Josef Angermüller 3 Jan Käter 3 Manfred Poschenreider 2 Helmut Reiter 1 Rudolf Kastl 0
Ivan Mauger - 11 John Louis - 9 Ray Wilson - 8 Terry Betts - 8 Ronnie Moore - dnr Anatoly Kuzmin - 6 Viktor Kalmykov - 5 Viktor Trofimov - 5 Grigory Khlinovsky - 5 Valery Gordeev - dnr Zenon Plech - 7 Henryk Glücklich - 6 Paweł Waloszek - 5 Zdzisław Dobrucki - 3 Marek Cieślak - 0 Christer Löfqvist - 6 Anders Michanek - 4 Tommy Jansson 4 Jan Simensen 3 Göte Nordin 1 Run-off for silver Soviet Union 7 (Kalmykov 3, Kuzmin 2, Khlinovsky 1, Trofimov 1) bt Poland 5 (Waloszek 3, Plech 2, Glücklich 0, Dobrucki 0)