Women's ice hockey in Great Britain

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Women's ice hockey in Great Britain is administered by the English and Scottish Ice Hockey Associations.^[1][2] It is one of the fastest growing areas of the game.^[3]

The British Women's Leagues were formed with six teams in 1984. The founder members of the league were:

• Brighton Amazons
• Cambridge University
• Oxford University
• Peterborough Ravens
• Solihull Vixens
• Streatham Strikers

Of those teams, only one has been in the league uninterrupted since: Solihull. Oxford University has at various points be told they can't play league hockey and have left and rejoined the league several times, and now play in the university leagues. (In the 1990s the governing body didn't want two teams playing out of the same rink but eventually relented so that in the late 1990s and early 2000s Oxford University and Oxford city both played in the league). Cambridge University had a non-league team for a long time. After the Ravens folded, a new team, the Penguins, was set up in Peterborough. Streatham Strickers folded in the early 1990s but a new Streatham team, Streatham Storm formed in 1996, re-entering the league in 1997 and remaining active ever since.