How much does youth hockey cost in Tennessee?

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.

LevelEstimated 12U season cost
House
C
$3,500 – $6,600
All-Stars
$5,100 – $10,400
A2
$7,100 – $14,000
A
A1
$8,400 – $17,000
AA
$11,000 – $20,700
AAA
$15,100 – $29,600

How the levels work here

AAA here means the Nashville Jr. Predators, the only Tennessee club with rated AAA teams. Their Tier 1 Elite Hockey League entries run at odd-year bands as well as even ones, at 12U, 13U, 14U, 15U, 16U and 18U. So the 14U figure on that row is one point on a six-age ladder. A1 and A2 are the two SYTHL A divisions, A2 the lower of the pair, and both run at 10U, 12U and 14U. The bare A row is the single A division that league runs at 16U. No rated Tennessee team carries the All-Stars label, so that row rests on the model alone.

Where the money goes

A typical 12U A season in Tennessee, about $12,700. 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.

  • Registration$5,72045%
  • Tournament travel$3,50028%
  • Development$1,2009%
  • Local travel$8006%
Estimated from published Tennessee program fees and family reports

House in Tennessee runs 7% above the national average.

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Hidden costs

  • No Tennessee club we checked publishes a season fee.
  • The Nashville Jr. Predators list every AAA, AA and A team by birth year with no price attached.
  • Music City Marauders, the Knoxville Jr. Ice Bears and the Knoxville Amateur Hockey Association post programs and divisions without a registration figure.
  • The Nashville Warriors publish no fee on their site and point families to a 2026-27 prospectus document instead, and the Mid-South Amateur Hockey Association in Memphis publishes no program detail at all.
  • We hold no published Tennessee registration fee in our fee record, so every figure on this page is a model estimate rather than a quoted price.
  • The one detailed season a Tennessee family has typed in is a 2025-26 12U AA year with the Nashville Warriors at $21,222, above the top of the $7,550-$15,900 range this page shows for that row.
  • Every rated Tennessee AAA team belongs to the Nashville Jr. Predators, so a family at that level has no second in-state program to price against.

Savings tips

  • The Poile Family Youth Hockey Scholarships are the largest named lever in the state.
  • David and Elizabeth Poile committed $100,000 to award at least $10,000 each year for the next several years through the Nashville Predators Foundation.
  • Poile applicants must be under 18 years old and play hockey in Middle Tennessee, and the scholarship covers registration fees and in some cases equipment, but not travel or tournament lodging.
  • The Poile fund has two application windows a year, one in the fall and one in the spring, and applications for the Fall 2026 season are open at NashvillePredators.com/foundation/poile-family-scholarship.
  • The WMB Foundation runs free girls sessions in Nashville and across the Southeast, now in their fourth year, plus free military and first responder sessions in Nashville.
  • Ask your own association about assistance and payment plans before assuming you pay full price.
  • Our 10U A2 range is $3,250-$6,400 against $3,600-$7,150 for A, so the two rungs below AA are priced close together.
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Hockey in Tennessee

Your child's team will have a letter: House, A, AA or AAA. That letter is the row to read in the table above. Six clubs hold the 55 rated Tennessee teams, four around Nashville and two around Knoxville. The Nashville Jr. Predators carry 24 of them and are the only club in the state with rated AAA. That is the AAA row: six Tier 1 Elite Hockey League teams at 12U, 13U, 14U, 15U, 16U and 18U, with AA and A teams from 10U to 16U below them. They also have the state's only rated girls teams, at 12U, 14U, 16U and 19U. A1 and A2 are the two SYTHL A divisions, A2 the lower of the pair. The table is our estimate of a full season.

More about Tennessee hockey

The Nashville Flyers (10 rated teams) and Knoxville's Smoky Mountain Wild (9) meet in the SESCL 14U AA and 16U AA divisions, and both also carry SYTHL A1 and A2 teams. Music City Marauders fields 9U through 18U AA. The Nashville Warriors skate out of Gary Force Acura Ice Arena in Nolensville, and the Knoxville Jr. Ice Bears, based in Lenoir City, have one rated team. Memphis has the Memphis Jr. Americans and the Mid-South Amateur Hockey Association, neither with a rated team, and no Chattanooga club appears in our data at all. Below travel, Ford Ice Center runs the Preds Youth Hockey League at 6U through 13+ in Antioch, Bellevue and Clarksville, a fall season of 13 practices and 13 games. In Knoxville the Amateur Hockey Association runs 8U in Blue, Green and Grey flights, 10U, 12U and 14U travel, and 8U and 10U-12U Lady Wild teams.

Tennessee has no state affiliate of its own. Its clubs are governed by the Southern Amateur Hockey Association (SAHA), which covers Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee inside USA Hockey's Southeastern District.

Hockey programs in Tennessee

Season cost estimates and family-reported costs for 9 programs.

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