The Manchester Storm are an ice hockey team from Manchester, England. The team formed in 1995, playing their home games at the then newly-built Nynex Arena, but later in 2002 they folded. A new Manchester Storm franchise was founded in 2015. The Storm won the British Hockey League Division One in their inaugural 1995-96 and were founding members of the Ice Hockey Superleague in 1996. They earned the League (regular season) championship in 1999 and won the Benson & Hedges Cup the following season.