Ice Hockey in Britain: Really That Popular?
Annabell Torphy
2025-06-03 10:31:58
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Increased visibility.
The EIHL, however, has become one of the most accessible top-flight sports leagues in Great Britain.
FreeSports is available on Freeview, Freesat, TalkTalk, BT, Virgin TV, and Sky, making it the perfect channel to bolster the home-viewing figures of an emerging sports league like the EIHL.
The channel shows midweek and weekend games of ice hockey, meaning that anyone with an interest can easily see the sport unravel live whenever they wish.
Also, the EIHL has made a huge effort to make itself as entertaining as possible through social media while also encouraging interactions, the value of available games cannot be understated.
Gaming is wildly popular in the UK, and giving people access to ice hockey-themed games will only help to harness potential fandom of the sport.
Furthermore, Great British prospect Liam Kirk was drafted from the EIHL and into the NHL by the Arizona Coyotes.
Great Britain’s success is catching on.
Rusty Cruickshank
2025-05-28 08:42:49
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The popularity of ice hockey among spectators and bettors in the UK has increased dramatically. The national team sensationally made its way to the Ice Hockey World Championship, which was held in 2019. The UK guaranteed their participation in the championship, taking first place in the first division tournament in 2018. The British participated in the World Cup for the first time since 1994. EIHL is actively promoting ice hockey through television channels. EIHL actively promotes itself on the Internet and such popular social networks as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, gaining tens of thousands of subscribers. At the same time, British developers are actively creating games dedicated to hockey.
Clint Zemlak
2025-05-22 04:35:19
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Ice hockey is played by 15,000 players in the UK, and watched by over 1.3million fans at live events each season. The UK Ice Hockey Foundation (‘Foundation’) aims to unlock barriers for participation in the sport and reduce the cost of playing/learning the game. The Foundation is laser-focused on helping to create a ‘sport for all’ so that even more people can enjoy the benefits of the sport.
Doyle Yost
2025-05-11 10:21:21
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That’s an exceptional attendance, but to put it in context, that’s more visitors than most League 1 football clubs and Premiership rugby clubs had last weekend, and almost as many as Centre Court at Wimbledon.
Ice hockey is, by far, the most popular indoor spectator sport in the country.
Below that level no one is full-time just as a player.
Even sports with similar (or worse) salaries can give successful athletes a “name” and a story.
LAPS can’t change the profile of a sport, but we do make sure we highlight the achievements and skills of our members, whichever sport they come from.
But exactly the same determination and other character attributes apply.
Jaqueline Stracke
2025-05-11 07:32:15
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A high financial barrier is one of the primary reasons for ice hockey’s low popularity amongst other sports in the UK. The prices of the playing equipment are through the roof, and getting ice time is even more expensive because there are limited ice rinks in the UK. Fewer people have a chance to play ice hockey. Consequently, there are fewer grassroots teams. Fewer people share a connection with the sport.
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