The Dundee Tigers are a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team, based in the city of Dundee

Dundee

Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...

. The present team play in the Scottish National League

Scottish National League

The Scottish National League is the ice hockey league in Scotland.Seen as the third-tier of ice hockey, below the British Elite Ice Hockey League and the English Premier Ice Hockey League . However, its standard of play has been considered closer to the English National Ice Hockey Division One,...

, and have won the competition once. Earlier 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

Scottish National League (1932 - 1954)

The Scottish National League was the first ice hockey league in Scotland. It was founded in 1932 by five teams from a single ice rink in Glasgow. The league gradually expanded to encompass teams from many areas of Scotland. It was suspended during the Second World War, but returned in 1946, and...

 from 1946 to 1954, and in the British National League

British National League (1954 - 1960)

The British National League was a professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1954 by the merger of the English National League and the Scottish National League, due to a declining number of teams, as many ice rinks previously fielding several sides chose to cut...

 from 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

British Hockey League

The British Hockey League was the top-flight ice hockey league in the United Kingdom from 1982 until 1996, when it was replaced by the Ice Hockey Superleague and the British National League...

 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

Scottish National League

The Scottish National League is the ice hockey league in Scotland.Seen as the third-tier of ice hockey, below the British Elite Ice Hockey League and the English Premier Ice Hockey League . However, its standard of play has been considered closer to the English National Ice Hockey Division One,...

 since 2000. They are based at the Dundee Ice Arena

Dundee Ice Arena

Dundee Ice Arena is a multi-purpose ice rink arena located in the Camperdown district of Dundee. The arena has a capacity of 2,300 seats making it the third largest ice rink arena by capacity in Scotland after the Braehead Arena and Fife Ice Arena. It hosts a number of events such as Dundee Stars...

 along with the Dundee Stars, and play in white, gold and black. The Tigers won the Scottish National League 2000-01.