1979 British League season

[5] Cradley Heath won the Knockout Cup mainly thanks to their USA superstar Bruce Penhall.

During the new British League Fours tournament a horrific accident took place at Hackney Wick Stadium on Friday 8 June.

[6][7] Further bad news filtered though in December after the season had finished, when Poole Pirate's Christer Sjösten died following serious injuries sustained in a race in Australia.

John Louis won the British League Riders' Championship, held at Hyde Road on 20 October and sponsored by Gauntlet (Leyland Used Cars).

[12] Results Belle Vue Birmingham Coventry Cradley Heath Eastbourne Exeter Hackney Halifax Hull Ipswich King's Lynn Leicester Poole Reading Sheffield Swindon Wimbledon Wolverhampton