Manchester Storm (1995–2002)

The Manchester Storm are an ice hockey team from Manchester, England. The team formed in 1995, playing their home games at the then newly-built Nynex Arena, but later in 2002 they folded. A new Manchester Storm franchise was founded in 2015.

The Storm won the British Hockey League Division One in their inaugural 1995-96 and were founding members of the Ice Hockey Superleague in 1996. They earned the League (regular season) championship in 1999 and won the Benson & Hedges Cup the following season.

The club holds the record for the largest ice hockey attendance at a UK league game, set on February 23, 1997, when 17,245 people watched a match against Sheffield Steelers. At the time, this was also a European record.