How much does youth hockey cost in Vermont?

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
$3,000 – $6,400
B
$3,800 – $7,200
A
$6,300 – $13,200
AA
$6,700 – $12,800
AAA
$13,800 – $27,000

How the levels work here

VSAHA Tier 2 through Tier 5 are the Vermont association's own brackets, not USA Hockey Tier I, II and III. Tier 2 is the AA row, Tier 3 is A, Tier 4 is B and Tier 5 is C, and Tier 2 is the top: no rated Vermont team carries a Tier 1 label. The AAA row is MVHL and E9. The tiers do not all run the full age range. Tier 5 exists at 10U only, Tier 3 and Tier 4 stop at 14U, and above 14U the ladder is Tier 2 plus a combined 16U/18U bracket. Gold and Green are sub-flights inside a tier, not levels of their own.

Where the money goes

A typical 12U A season in Vermont, 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$3,62037%
  • Registration$2,70028%
  • Development$1,20012%
  • Equipment$7007%
Estimated from published Vermont program fees and family reports

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Hidden costs

  • Not one of the 114 Vermont program offerings in our data carries a published registration fee or a specific cost, so comparing two clubs before tryouts means asking each board directly.
  • Most Vermont club sites refuse outside requests: Central Vermont Black Bears, Essex Sting, CSB Hawks, Stowe Raiders and Northshire Bulldogs all returned HTTP 403 when we fetched them, while the Middlebury Tigers and Rutland Jr. Spartans sites load and post no fee by age or level.
  • Rutland Jr. Spartans does publish one number, a $35 late payment fee applied after 45 days.
  • Tournament travel is the second-largest line after registration in our Vermont model, at $3,276 of an $11,525 season for 12U VSAHA Tier 3 and $7,236 of $21,875 for 14U VSAHA Tier 2.
  • Prep tuition is a separate category rather than a season fee added to one: Vermont Academy in Saxtons River lists 2026-27 tuition of $79,500 boarding and $43,900 day, and says approximately 40% of its students receive financial aid, totalling 3.5 million dollars in awards annually.
  • The Brattleboro Greyhawks play the Greater Springfield League, a Massachusetts town league, so their divisions are scheduled outside Vermont.

Savings tips

  • Rutland Jr. Spartans posts a 15% early registration discount for registering before June 1, an additional 5% sibling discount, and a choice of five-month or six-month payment plans, with the financial aid form built directly into registration.
  • The Jonathan Levin Scholarship Fund at the Northshire Civic Center in Manchester awards a maximum of $600 per household, not per child, usable for program fees and equipment, for skating and hockey programs from pre-K through 8th grade.
  • That fund runs year-round on a first-come, first-served basis, asks for a tax return as proof of income, and considers hardship letters from families who do not meet the income limits.
  • Tier choice inside your own club is a real lever, because 12 of the 16 clubs in our data field a Tier 3 team and 11 field a Tier 4 team.
  • Ask your own association about assistance and payment plans before assuming you pay full price.
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Hockey in Vermont

Your child's team will have a letter: House, C, B, A, AA or AAA. That letter is the row to read in the table above. In Vermont the schedule says a VSAHA tier, and the letters line up cleanly with the tiers. All 21 Tier 2 teams are labelled AA, all 24 Tier 3 teams A, all 20 Tier 4 teams B and all 6 Tier 5 teams C. So Tier 2 is the AA row, Tier 3 is A, Tier 4 is B and Tier 5 is C. No Tier 1 is fielded. Tier 3 and Tier 4 each split into Gold and Green groups, and both groups carry the same letter, so Gold and Green are sub-flights rather than rungs. Our data carries 128 rated Vermont teams at 16 clubs. The table is our estimate of a full season.

More about Vermont hockey

The town clubs are Burlington Bobcats (Burlington), CSB Hawks (South Burlington), Essex Sting (Essex Junction), Milton Warriors (Milton), St. Albans Skating Association (St Albans), Missisquoi Thunderbirds (Highgate) and Central Vermont Black Bears (Barre). Others are Lyndon Red Wings (Lyndonville), Stowe Raiders (Stowe), Middlebury Tigers (Middlebury), Woodstock Jr. Wasps (Woodstock), Rutland Jr. Spartans (Rutland), Northshire Bulldogs (Manchester) and Brattleboro Greyhawks (Brattleboro), whose four rated teams all play the Greater Springfield League. Two clubs sit above the state bracket. Vermont Jr. Catamounts in Essex Junction is the only Vermont club in E9, at 9U through 13U for boys plus girls teams at 12U and 14U. Vermont Flames in Waterbury has 12U, 13U, 14U and 16U teams in the Mountain Valley Hockey League. Girls hockey is 34 of the 128 teams, at 13 clubs, from 10U to 19U.

Vermont's state association is the Vermont State Amateur Hockey Association (VSAHA).

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