[1][2] Football has dominated Mexican sports for decades, but ice hockey has grown in popularity in Mexico since the 1960s.
[3][4] The game of ice hockey was played in the country for the first time in the 1960s, however the Mexican Federation of Winter Sports (Spanish: Federación Mexicana de Deportes Invernales A.C.) was not founded until 1984.
Mexico joined the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) on 30 April 1985.
The men's national team played its first game on 10 April 2000 during the 2000 World Championship Pool D tournament in Reykjavík, Iceland, losing to Belgium 5–0.
The men's national team was the runners-up three times until 2017, they won their first ever Pan American Tournament by defeating Colombia 1–0 in the final, however their opposition is currently not a member of the IIHF due to lack of governing bodies of ice hockey in Colombia.