The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people and was opened in 1924 by president Stanisław Wojciechowski.

[4] It has also hosted 16 Speedway Grand Prix events including the final of the 2008 season which was actually run as the FIM Final Speedway Grand Prix.

The final was to be the Speedway Grand Prix of Germany and held at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, however the FIM deemed that track to be unsafe due to the inclement weather (despite the Veltins-Arena sporting a retractable roof which was closed at the time the track was laid) and the GP was re-staged a week later in Bydgoszcz.

Tomasz Gollob is the track record holder with 60.11 seconds for a 4 lap race with a clutch start.

As it was run in Poland it was renamed the "FIM Final Speedway Grand Prix".