How much does youth hockey cost in Arkansas?
2026-2027 season estimates • Updated October 2026 • Built from published program fees and family reports
All-in season cost by level
This is the full season, not just registration. Ice, travel, tournaments, and equipment usually add up to more than the sign-up fee.
| Level | Estimated 12U season cost |
|---|---|
House C | $3,200 – $6,500 |
C2 C1 / B3 / B / A3 | $3,800 – $7,900 |
A2 starts at 14U in Arkansas.
How the levels work here
The numbered rows come from MoAm division labels on single teams, not a statewide ladder. Each is one team: C2 at 10U, A3 and C1 at 12U, B3 at 14U, and A2 at 10U and 14U. The page prices all of them at 10U. That is the only age C2 and A2 are rated at. So the C1, A3 and B3 figures apply that level's cost to an age no Arkansas team is rated at right now. The plain B row has no rated Arkansas team at any age.
Where the money goes
A typical 12U B season in Arkansas, about $5,800. Follows the age picked above.
Assumes 3 tournaments within a 2 hour drive, 2 of them with a hotel night, one parent travelling.
- Registration$1,82031%
- Tournament travel$1,20021%
- Local travel$70012%
- Development$70012%
How does your season compare?
Add your own costs from last season, any club, any level, to get a full breakdown to budget this season.
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Hidden costs
- Arkansas has exactly two youth hockey associations, one in Little Rock and one in Springdale, so there is no second club in either city to try out for.
- Local travel is the largest single line in our 8U House estimate at $761, ahead of the $750 registration line, and it stays at $761 at every level and age this page prices.
- Neither association publishes a registration figure a family can budget from: the Arkansas Hockey Association site lists its programs without prices, and the Northwest Arkansas Hockey Association posts its fee structure only as images.
- No published Arkansas registration fee is on file in our fee record.
- Every rated Arkansas travel team carries a MoAm division label and the one rated high school team sits in a Kansas high school division, so the schedule those ratings come from is played outside the state.
Savings tips
- The Northwest Arkansas Hockey Association is a qualified vendor under the Arkansas LEARNS Act, so a family receiving Education Freedom Account funding from the state can put those funds toward NWAHA registration fees, and the association will reimburse fees already paid.
- NWAHA also runs a confidential scholarship open to families who qualify for free or reduced lunch through their school district, including families whose children do not attend public school, and it says it can consider other extenuating circumstances such as temporary hardship case by case.
- Neither the LEARNS Act route nor the NWAHA scholarship publishes a dollar figure, so apply rather than estimate.
- In Little Rock the Aces field 8U, 10U/12U and 14U+ house teams alongside their 14U and 16U travel teams, and our ranges put House below every travel row on this page.
- Ask either association about assistance and payment plans before assuming you pay full price.
Hockey in Arkansas
Your child's team will carry a MoAm label like A2, C2 or B3. Find that label in the table above. The rows are our estimates of a full season, not quoted fees. Neither association publishes a registration price we can read.
More about Arkansas hockey
Arkansas has no state affiliate of its own. Its clubs answer to the Southern Amateur Hockey Association. That body covers Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee inside USA Hockey's Southeastern District. Two associations carry the whole state. The Arkansas Hockey Association is a Little Rock non-profit set up in 1991. It runs the Little Rock Aces out of the Arkansas Skatium. Its own site lists 8U House, 10U/12U House, 14U+ House, 14U Travel and 16U Travel teams. The Northwest Arkansas Hockey Association runs the Ice Hogs in Springdale.
Between them the two associations hold 8 rated teams in our data, all boys teams. Six carry MoAm division labels. NW Arkansas has 10U A2, 10U C2, 12U A3, 12U C1 and 14U A2. Little Rock has 14U B3. MoAm shows up in only two other states in our data, Missouri and Illinois. The other two rated teams are NW Arkansas high school sides. One of them plays in a Kansas HS - MAHSHL division. No Arkansas team in our data carries a Texas, Oklahoma or Tennessee league label.
Hockey programs in Arkansas
Season cost estimates and family-reported costs for 2 programs.
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