{"id":153,"date":"2019-10-24T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:03:15","slug":"nottingham-panthers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/nottingham-panthers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img  title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-88 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Nottingham-Panthers-1.png\"  alt=\"Nottingham-Panthers-1 Nottingham Panthers\"  width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Founded:<\/strong> 1946<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Motorpoint Arena (10,000)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since:<\/strong> 2000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Head Coach:<\/strong> Danny Stewart<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since:<\/strong> 2024<\/p>\n<p><strong>Division:<\/strong> Elite Ice Hockey League<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since:<\/strong> 2003<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">panthers.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PanthersIHC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PanthersIHC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1946 by mostly a group of Canadians from Winnipeg the Nottingham Panthers would play their first competitive game against the Wembley Monarchs at the original Nottingham Ice Stadium which was built in 1939. Playing in the English National League the Panthers won their first two titles in 1951 and 1954 before joining the British National League which they won in 1956 after finishing as runners up in their first season.<\/p>\n<p>In 1960 however the lack of interest of Ice Hockey in Britain was so that it would see the demise of the league and it wouldn&#8217;t be until 1980 when Nottingham Panthers were given the chance to come back and participate first playing in the English League South before joining the British Hockey League in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Panthers would win their first national playoffs in 1989 before the rebuild of the Nottingham Ice Stadium to what is now the National Ice Centre in 2000 kick started a new era in what has since been a most successful period in the history of the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Millennium, Panthers have won the league championship and six playoff titles with eight challenge cups adding to the six Autumn Cups they won pre 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest of all though was first winning the IIHF Continental Cup in 2017 which is Europe&#8217;s second tier club competition thus becoming the first team from Britain to win a major European competition. Nottingham Panthers also becoming the first British side to win two European finals after again winning the Conti Cup in 2026, a tournament played at the Panthers very own home at Nottingham Arena.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For latest Nottingham Panthers results &amp; fixtures visit the clubs official website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded: 1946 Venue: Motorpoint Arena (10,000) Since: 2000 Head Coach: Danny Stewart Since: 2024 Division: Elite Ice Hockey League Since: 2003 Website: panthers.co.uk Twitter: @PanthersIHC Founded in 1946 by mostly a group of Canadians from Winnipeg the Nottingham Panthers would play their first competitive game against the Wembley Monarchs at the original Nottingham Ice Stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18538,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-153","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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