News Archive - October 2026

Yet another change has been forced upon the Monarchs for our final Scottish Cup meeting on Friday as Michael Palm Toft, after riding well in Scunthorpe's brave Playoff Final performance, suffered an injury following the Superheat. The slot replacing Paco Castagna will now go to Victor Palovaara, taking on the meeting in spite of an important date at Plymouth on Saturday!

There will be a familiar voice around Armadale Stadium this Friday as former Monarchs presenter Scott Wilson makes a special return to the microphone for our Scottish Cup decider against Glasgow Tigers.

Glasgow Tigers hold the trophy, Edinburgh Monarchs lead in the series stretching back to 1951, and on Friday we will see which side adds the 2026 Scottish Cup to their record.

The unbeaten Edinburgh Academy team will definitely be presented with the WSRA National Development League trophy on Friday, but will the Monarchs also get their hands on the Scottish Cup?

Friday night will see the end of the Armadale speedway season for 2026 when the Monarchs and the Glasgow Tigers contest the Scottish Cup. This is the second leg because Monarchs won the first leg back on 11th July at Ashfield by 48-42.

Edinburgh Monarchs will bring the curtain down on the 2026 season with the Scottish Cup on the line when Glasgow Tigers visit Armadale Stadium next Friday, 2nd October, at 7:30pm.

For the Monarchs' senior team it was a disappointing night at Armadale, firstly because of the horrible weather which eventually led to an abandonment, and secondly because the home team were never at any stage able to make inroads into Poole's first leg advantage. Eventual aggregate was 66-96.

Monarchs will have to at least equal their highest score of the season to peg back Champions Poole in their Championship Playoff semi-final, having lost by 24 points in the first leg in Dorset. They previously scored 57 at Armadale against Redcar Bears in early July and that is the minimum score required tomorrow.

The Monarchs gave it all they had at Poole in the first leg of the Championship Playoff semi-final, but could not prevent the Poole Pirates taking a 57-33 lead to bring up to Armadale.

Before the start of the season, quite a few self-appointed 'experts' predicted that the 2026 Edinburgh Monarchs had no chance of achieving anything this season. Five months later, the Monarchs will go into this Friday's Play-off semi-final second-leg at Armadale defending their hard-fought unbeaten home record and in with a chance of beating champions Poole to reach the play-off final.