The Scottish National League is 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...

 league in Scotland

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...

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Seen as the third-tier of ice hockey, below the British Elite Ice Hockey League and the English Premier Ice Hockey League

English Premier Ice Hockey League

The English Premier Ice Hockey League commonly abbreviated to EPIHL, or simply EPL, is a senior ice hockey league in England, and is run and administered by the English Ice Hockey Association...

 . However, its standard of play has been considered closer to the English National Ice Hockey Division One, consisting primarily of amateur players and "B" teams of clubs playing in higher leagues. Following the demise of the British National League

British National League

The British National League is a defunct second-level professional ice hockey league in the United Kingdom. Although no formal promotion and relegation existed during its period of existence, it was considered to have a standard below that of the Ice Hockey Superleague and above that of the...

 at the end of the 2004-05 season, the Fife Flyers

Fife Flyers

The Fife Flyers, established in 1938, are the oldest ice hockey team in Scotland, and also in the United Kingdom, beating the Nottingham Panthers by 8 years...

 and Dundee Stars transferred to the League, raising its profile and quality. Both these teams have since left the SNL and now compete in the Elite Ice Hockey League

Elite Ice Hockey League

Several competitions fall under the jurisdiction of the Elite League. In 2006–07, the EIHL ran a total of four competitions: the league, playoffs, Challenge Cup and Knockout Cup. The league consists of a single division, each team playing three home games and three away games against the other...

Teams

• Aberdeen Lynx
• Dundee Comets
  Dundee Comets
  The Dundee Comets are a Scottish ice hockey team, based in the city of Dundee. They play at the Dundee Ice Arena, along with the Dundee Stars Elite Team and the Dundee Tigers SNL team....
  
  
• Dundee Tigers
  Dundee Tigers
  The Dundee Tigers are a Scottish ice hockey team, based in the city of Dundee. The present team play in the Scottish National League, and have won the competition once. Earlier incarnations of the Tigers have won numerous titles since the late 1930s.-History:...
  
  
• Edinburgh Capitals (SNL)
  Edinburgh Capitals (SNL)
  The Edinburgh Capitals ice hockey team are a 'B' team for the Elite League Capitals with whom they share their name. They play in the Scottish National League which is considered a third tier league in the United Kingdom equivalent to the EPL. Certain players also ice for or have iced for their...
  
  
• Kilmarnock Storm
• Kirkcaldy Kestrels
• Moray Tornadoes
• North Ayr Wild
• Paisley Pirates
  Paisley Pirates
  The Paisley Pirates were founded in 1946 and are one of the oldest ice hockey clubs in Scotland and the UK . The Pirates were the epitome of the game in Scotland during the 1950s...
  
  
• Solway Sharks
  Solway Sharks
  The Solway Sharks are the only senior ice hockey club in South West Scotland or Cumbria and play out of Dumfries Ice Bowl, King Street, Dumfries, ScotlandThis season we will be playing in the English National League North Division 2 and in the Northern Cup...