Zanzibar Zebras

At a glance

Zanzibar, Tanzania—plays at The Stone Town Rink, capacity 9,400. A Season 3 arrival, sorted into La Conférence du Givre.

A spice island off the coast of Tanzania has permanent ice and a Hockay team. The Almighty Ice has a sense of humor. The Zebras are built on contrast—their style flips between periods and opponents have never solved it.

Identity

• City: Zanzibar, Tanzania
• Arena: The Stone Town Rink
• Capacity: 9,400
• Colors: #C47A3A / #1A5C7A
• Conference: La Conférence du Givre
• Joined: Season 3 expansion

Arena modifier—Stripes

The Zebras’ stat profile alternates each period. Offense-dominant in P1. Defense-dominant in P2. Offense-dominant in P3. The stripes switch. They cannot be read.

See all arena modifiers for cross-comparison.

The arena—lore

A spice island off the coast of Tanzania was given permanent ice, and Le Council notes—as it has learned to note—that The Almighty Ice possesses a sense of humor it has never once explained. The ice is of the givre form. Under the Stripes designation, the Zebras’ profile alternates each period: offense-dominant, then defense-dominant, then offense-dominant again. The stripes switch. Opponents have not learned to read them, because there is a period between every period the Zebras spent building the wrong plan. The Zebras are two teams wearing one sweater, and they change which one you are facing exactly when you have decided.

The arena—building

Coral rag and lime plaster, worked into the old town rather than cleared for—the building occupies four former warehouses and the alleys between them, and the alleys are still alleys and are still used. Carved doors, brass-studded, at three of the entrances; the fourth is a gap in a wall. The 9,400 seats are in a single tier around a rink that sits where a courtyard used to, open to the sky at the center and shaded by a slatted timber screen that throws bars of light and shadow across The Almighty Ice for the whole of a daylight fixture. The bars move. Cloves are sold on the concourse and the whole building smells of them by the second period, including the parts of it that are outdoors.

S.H.I.F.T. movements

Season 03 window · 12–17 October 2026

• Trade. Sent Rashid Haji (C) to Oslo Owls. Received Thea Halvorsen (C) in return, for the third line, round two.
• Trade. Received Anastasia Volkova (C) from Moscow Mules for the third line. Sent Fatuma Said (C) the other way, round one.
• Signing. Signed Paulina Zielińska (LW) from the unattached pool for the third line. Released Suleiman Nassor (LW) to the pool, round one.

See the S.H.I.F.T. for how a movement is filed, voted, and registered.

See also

• Teams overview—all 48 franchises.
• The conferences—how the Verglas and the Givre were sorted.
• Arena modifiers—the mechanic behind Stripes.
• Glossary—every term, A–Z.