Glasgow Tigers (speedway)

[2] A Glasgow White City team raced several challenge matches during the 1929 season before becoming members of the Northern League for 1930.

[6][7] Several fixtures were held in 1940 before the threat of bombing during World War II closed the track to speedway for another five years.

Despite signings, including the likes of Junior Bainbridge and Ken McKinlay, the White City Tigers experienced several underwhelming seasons and ended the decade with an eighth-place finish.

[10] The club eventually pulled out of the league following several fixtures in early 1954, citing financial losses despite the sale of its stars.

Trevor Redmond, in concert with the Hoskins family, reopened the track at White City in 1964 and rode for the Tigers that season before finally retiring as a rider and continued as promoter until 1967.

Danny Taylor arrived as promoter in 1967 but left after just one season due to travel problems from Glasgow to his chicken farm business in Jedburgh.

[14] The Tigers moved to Hampden Park in 1969 in anticipation of the White City stadium demolition to make way for the M8 motorway through Glasgow.

The greyhound stadium was demolished in advance of the construction of the East Kilbride Expressway and the Tigers moved to yet another home (their fifth) in 1982 to Craighead Park.

A third-place finish in 1992 was followed by the League and Knockout Cup double to bring Glasgow their first major success in the club's history.

The double team included Bowes, Powell, Grieves, number 1 Róbert Nagy, Nigel Crabtree, Jesper Olsen and David Walsh.

The changes proved successful as the Tigers won the league title led by heat leaders Joe Screen, Josh Grajczonek and James Grieves and in addition Screen and Grieves won The Premier League Pairs Championship, held at Oaktree Arena on 24 June.

They reached the play-off finals, but fell short by losing to league winners Leicester Lions by two points but did win the Pairs Championship with Craig Cook and Rasmus Jensen.

Following a season lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tigers finished runners-up in both the 2021 and 2022 SGB Championship league standings, losing in the play-off final against the Poole Pirates in the former.

White City Stadium
The team raced as the Tigers for the first time in 1946
Jimmy McMillan was signed in 1966
Cliftonhill
Shawfield, the seventh home of the Tigers