The Dundee Tigers are a
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
team, based in the city of
Dundee
Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...
. The present team play in the
Scottish National League, and have won the competition once. Earlier, (but not related), incarnations of the Tigers have won numerous titles since the late 1930s.
History
The first Dundee Tigers team was founded in 1938. The Tigers played in the
Scottish National League from 1946 to 1954, and in the
British National League in 1954–55. The team was based at Kingsway Rink, and wore a blue, red and white strip. The Tigers won the Scottish National League in 1938–39, 1939–40 and 1948–49. The original Tigers last played in 1955.
A second Dundee Tigers team was founded in 1987. They played in the
British Hockey League
The British Hockey League was the top-flight ice hockey league in the United Kingdom from 1980 until 1996 (with a short break between 1981 and 1982), when it was replaced by the Ice Hockey Superleague and the British National League. The league r ...
Premier Division 1987–88, before being renamed the Tayside Tigers in 1988. They played at Kingsway Rink in white, gold and black.
The Dundee Tigers played in the Scottish Under-21 League in the late 1990s.
The present Dundee Tigers have played in the
Scottish National League since 2000. They are based at the
Dundee Ice Arena
Dundee Ice Arena is a multi-purpose ice rink arena located in the Camperdown area of Dundee. The arena has a capacity of 2,400 seats making it the fourth largest ice rink arena by capacity in Scotland after the Braehead Arena, Murrayfield Ice Rin ...
along with the
Dundee Stars
The Dundee Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in the Scottish city of Dundee. They were formed in 2001 and play their home games at the Dundee Ice Arena, situated off the city's main Kingsway dual carriageway. The current title sp ...
and
Dundee Comets
The Dundee Comets are a Scottish ice hockey team, based in the city of Dundee, coached by John Dolan, former Dundee Stars Legend. They play at the Dundee Ice Arena, along with the Dundee Stars Elite Team and the Dundee Tigers
The Dundee T ...
and play in white, gold and black. The Tigers won the Scottish National League 2000–01 and the SNL Playoff Championship in 2013.
Club roster 2020–21
2020/21 Outgoing
External links
Dundee Tigers web site
References
Dundee Tigers on Eurohockey.net
Ice hockey teams in Scotland
Sport in Dundee
1938 establishments in Scotland
1955 disestablishments in Scotland
2000 establishments in Scotland
Ice hockey clubs established in 2000
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