How much does youth hockey cost in Montana?
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 | $3,100 – $6,400 |
B B2 | $3,700 – $7,800 |
B1 | $5,400 – $11,000 |
A | $6,300 – $13,100 |
AA | $7,600 – $15,200 |
How the levels work here
There is no AAA row because no Montana team is rated AAA. The AA row rests on one club: the Montana Wolves of Bozeman field the state's only AA teams, and MAHA's own site counts 5 Tier II teams statewide. The B1 and B2 rows come from a single club as well, the Richland Rangers of Sidney, who play NDAHA divisions rather than the in-state TSL. At 16U and 18U most Montana players are in high school hockey rather than club hockey, so the rows above House describe a narrow slice of those ages.
Where the money goes
A typical 12U A season in Montana, about $9,700. Follows the age picked above.
Assumes 3 tournaments, each a 2 to 6 hour drive with 2 hotel nights, two parents and a sibling travelling.
- Tournament travel$3,42035%
- Registration$2,90030%
- Development$1,20012%
- Equipment$7007%
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
- Great Falls Amateur Hockey Association publishes its 2026/27 fees: $300 at 6U and 8U, $500 at 10U, $700 at 12U, $850 at 14U, and $1,000 for junior varsity or $1,200 for varsity at high school.
- Great Falls also lists a $350 fundraising requirement for every player, separate from registration.
- The Great Falls travel registration deadline is August 31, 2026, and 6U and 8U teams are exempt from it.
- Missoula Area Youth Hockey Association states that its registration fees cover subsidized ice time, game officials, MAHA league fees, athletic training services, uniforms, pucks and team equipment, so what a fee includes is not the same from one association to the next.
- Missoula also states that its travel teams may organize approved fundraising activities on top of registration.
- Great Falls states that players must register with USA Hockey before they can register with the association.
Savings tips
- Bozeman Amateur Hockey Association runs a youth hockey scholarship for families of players facing economic barriers, and states that the 2026/27 scholarship is open to applicants from 7/6/26 to 7/26/26, a three-week window in July.
- Missoula families can apply for the Colin Moffatt Snodgrass Youth Hockey Scholarship, administered by the Moffatt-Snodgrass-Wilson families in partnership with Glacier Ice Rink for Missoula Area Youth Hockey Association players between the ages of eight to 18.
- The Snodgrass scholarship runs as both a travel hockey and a house hockey scholarship, assists with registration fees for the following winter season, and its application deadline is May 2027.
- Great Falls publishes a full fee schedule by age, so a family there can price the season before committing.
- Ask your own association about assistance and payment plans: neither the amounts nor the terms are standard across Montana.
Hockey in Montana
Your child's team will have a letter: House, B, A or AA. That letter is the row to read in the table above. The ladder parents see here is short. Most travel hockey is TSL. Its 10U, 12U and 14U A and B divisions carry 52 of the 88 rated Montana teams in our data, and B outnumbers A at every age, 35 B teams to 23 A. At 16U and 18U the ladder is high school, with 16 teams in the two MT HS divisions, Big Sky and MTHSL. That includes a junior varsity team at Billings, Bozeman, Flathead, Great Falls, Helena and Missoula. AA is one club. The Montana Wolves of Bozeman field the state's only AA teams, at 12U, 14U, 16U and 18U. Their 16U and 18U teams play NWAHL divisions alongside clubs from Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. No Montana team is rated AAA, so there is no AAA row. The table is our estimate of a full season.
More about Montana hockey
By city, Bozeman has the most rated teams (Bozeman Icedogs 11, Montana Wolves 8). Then come Helena Bighorns 11, whose 14U A team plays as the Montana Yeti, and Kalispell and the Flathead 11 (Glacier Avalanche in Whitefish 8, Flathead Valley Flames in Kalispell 3). Missoula Bruins have 9, Billings Jr. Bulls 7 and Great Falls Americans 7. Butte, Havre, Glasgow, Miles City and Sidney field the rest. Girls hockey is seven teams: 19U at Bozeman, Glacier, Missoula, the Wolves and Richland, plus a Wolves 14U and a Glacier 12U.
Montana's sole USA Hockey affiliate is the Montana Amateur Hockey Association (MAHA). It describes itself as the affiliate for all hockey in Montana and counts 82 statewide teams and 5 Tier II teams.
Hockey programs in Montana
Season cost estimates and family-reported costs for 13 programs.
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State-by-state cost breakdown for 2026
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Detailed level-by-level cost comparison
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