Hull Pirates

The Hull Pirates are an ice hockey team based in Kingston upon Hull and their home ice is the Hull Arena. They will be playing their debut season (2015–16) in the English Premier Ice Hockey League.

Formation
The Hull Pirates were formed when the Hull Stingrays went into liquidation in June 2015. The Stingrays' place in the Elite Ice Hockey League was taken by Manchester Storm.

On Friday 3 July 2015, Shane Smith, a 42-year-old Rotherham-based businessman, who also owns the Sheffield Steeldogs held a press day at the Hull Arena to announce the formation of the Hull Pirates and that they had been accepted into the EPIHL.

It was also announced that former Hull Stingrays' forward Dominic Osman would become a player-coach and part-owner of Hull Pirates.