Manchester Storm To Come Home After 24 Years

Ice lucky squad Manchester Storm is group to return location to its original stadium aft 24 years.

The squad will play adjacent play successful nan city's AO Arena aft leaving their existent location crushed astatine Planet Ice successful Altrincham.

Founded backmost successful 1995, nan squad played successful nan past recently opened Manchester Arena arsenic a tenant and became inaugural champions of nan Ice Hockey Superleague successful 1996. They besides group a British crystal lucky attendance grounds erstwhile 17,245 fans watched their crippled against Sheffield Steelers nan pursuing season, which still stands.

The nine near nan arena successful 2002 but said it was returning to return advantage of a maturation successful crystal hockey's fame to get much fans to nan 23,000-capacity venue.

Emma and Ryan Finnerty, representing nan team's ownership group, said: "It's astir giving our fans a premier shape successful nan bosom of nan metropolis and delivering an outstanding unrecorded experience."

They added: "This marks nan commencement of an breathtaking caller era for nan club.

"Manchester Storm is coming home."

The arena's wide manager, Gemma Vaughan, said unit were "proud" to person Storm backmost successful nan "UK's largest indoor sporting arena".

She added: "This homecoming will bring caller power to nan metropolis centre, driving footfall for section bars, restaurants, and hotels while creating much opportunities for fans to prosecute pinch nan sport.

"It's a awesome measurement guardant for crystal hockey's maturation successful nan UK and a superb infinitesimal for Manchester's already thriving sporting community."