The team currently competes in The French Ligue Magnus on 13 January 2014 it was announced they will have a partnership with the Tampa Bay Lighting and Syracuse Crunch.

Ice hockey was played in Lyon as early as 1898 on a rink located on the Boulevard des Belges where today the Guimet Museum stands.

[2] In 1963 CPL built the Patinoire Charlemagne that still today serves as the home of Lyon ice sports.

The front of the jersey features a stylised image of a lion and bears the logo of the LHC's major sponsor, Flunch.

The Tribune de Lyon produces a pre-season guide to the LHC each year and reports on matches each week.

While the playlist varies by season current songs on the match-night programme include Sleeping Satellite (Junior Caldera) and No Stress (Laurent Wolf).

Major sponsors of the LHC are Fiat, Flunch, Kinnarps, Metifiot, Virgin Radio, Nike Bauer and Air Canada.

[10] Patinoire Charlemagne offers many services apart from the ice hockey rink including medical facilities, a bar, a dance hall, meeting rooms and a press centre.

Each year the rink hosts the Pôle France de danse sur glace and world champion figure skaters Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat both train at Charlemagne.

Always in attendance at home games, Pepito wears a Lyon hockey jersey and a straw hat.