Friendship Four

The Friendship Four is an annual mid-season college ice hockey tournament that has been held since 2015 at SSE Arena Belfast in Belfast, Northern Ireland with the winner receiving the Belpot Trophy. It is currently the only college ice hockey tournament to take place outside of the United States.
==History==
The tournament began as a way to foster stronger economic development, trade and investment, tourism, cultural exchange and educational linkages between the sister cities of Boston and Belfast. Each year four teams are selected to participate in the tournament which it typically held on the same weekend as Thanksgiving in the United States. As of 2019 all games have been played at the SSE Arena Belfast while all participating schools have come from the eastern region. While only two participating universities have come from Boston, many more have come from the same General Region.
==Yearly Results==
Year	Champion 	Runner-up 	Third place 	Fourth place 	Ref
2015	Massachusetts–Lowell	Brown 	Northeastern 	Colgate 	
2016	Vermont 	Quinnipiac 	Massachusetts and St. Lawrence (tie)	Massachusetts and St. Lawrence (tie)	
2017	Clarkson 	Providence 	Maine 	Rensselaer 	
2018	Union 	Boston University	Yale 	Connecticut 	
2019	Northeastern 	Colgate 	New Hampshire 	Princeton 	
==References==
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Category:Established in 2015
Category:Ice hockey in the United Kingdom