The competition was founded in 2001 and was initially staged as a one-off meeting before the single event was replaced by the Speedway European Championship series in 2012.

Regardless of that, ISEC was struggling with prestige and promotion and the best European riders were mostly avoiding this contest.

[3] On 20 December 2012, at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland it was announced that the competition would be replaced by a new series similar in format to the Speedway Grand Prix.

The Speedway European Championship series is promoted by One Sporta Ltd. from Poland for next three seasons (2013-2015).

Denmark is the most successful nation having had seven champions, Jesper B. Jensen (2005), Nicki Pedersen (2016), Leon Madsen (2018 and 2022) and Mikkel Michelsen (2019, 2021 and 2023).