Ice hockey in Africa from the invited countries and never played. In 2014, the Egyptian players of Anubis Ice Hockey Team, Egypt's first ice hockey team started to initiate with the Royal Moroccan Ice Hockey Federation the first African Cup. And in July 2016 the first African Ice Hockey Clubs Cup was held in Rabat, Morocco between 24 and 31 July. The championship was contested between 6 teams from Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Teams of Kenya, Libya and South Africa were also invited but they didn't participate. The cup was won by the Tunisian team. In South Africa, the sport is governed by
Ice hockey announced a final figure of 104,173. The record was approached but not broken at the 2014 NHL Winter Classic, which also held at Michigan Stadium, with the Detroit Red Wings as the home team and the Toronto Maple Leafs as the opposing team with an announced crowd of 105,491. Number of registered hockey players, including male, female and junior, provided by the respective countries' federations. Note that this list only includes the 42 of 76 IIHF member countries with more than 1,000 registered players as of October 2018. Ice hockey Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice,