They have 30 post season appearances, including 29 consecutively between 1985–86 and the present. The team have won the playoff championship five times, in 1988–89, 2006–07, 2010–11, 2011––13 and appeared in 8 other playoff finals. In their 48 completed seasons, the Panthers have been regular season champions 4 times, in 1950–51, 1953–54, 1955––13. A charter member of the Premier League in 1983 at the reintroduction of a national league, Nottingham have held continuous membership of the highest league since then and are the only team to have done so. Since that time the Panthers have played in the English League South, English National League, British Hockey League, Ice Hockey Superleague and the current Elite Ice Hockey League. The club were reformed in 1980 when the Sheffield Lancers relocated to Nottingham.
Following the collapse of the British National League in 1960 the Panthers were disbanded. They played in the English National League for their first eight seasons before becoming part of the amalgamated British National League in 1954. The club played their first competitive game on 22 November 1946, defeating Wembley Monarchs 3-2 at the Ice Stadium. The Panthers were due to begin play in the 1939–40 season but the outbreak of World War II delayed this for seven years. This list documents the season-by-season records of the Nottingham Panthers from their inaugural season in 1946–47 to 1959–60 and from their reformation in 1980–81 to the present day.
This is a list of seasons completed by the Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team currently of the British Elite League.
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