***Registration for the Winter 2025 season is now CLOSED. 

If the main Registration is OPEN and you are a new player to our league please read this page to answer any questions you might have and then fill out the registration on the other page and attend the new player evals and you are good to go. 

** The New Player Information Form below is DEACTIVATED when main registration is OPEN. 

If you are reading this page and registration CLOSED, please fill out the New Player Information Form below to be added to our contact list to be notified of important upcoming  dates. We will send you an email once  we schedule the mid season eval ..  (probably sometime in early July or mid Jan depending on what season we are in. )

Players wishing to play in the AAHL will be required to create a SportsEngine account authorizing us to collect specific information related to registration and allow for some of that information (i.e. Name, Email, Phone Number) to be used for official league communications and to be shared with the Atlanta Hockey Foundation for similar communications.  This account will be used to view team specific pages, communicate with captains, and save your league statistics for as long as you are a member.

All league registrations that are currently open are listed in the Registrations page and can be directly accessed by clicking the corresponding registration link.  Additional league information can be found on their corresponding pages

Players who are new to the AAHL and not registering for a specific team can select the “No Team Affiliation” registration link and then must participate in an evaluation session, normally held in the Fall and Spring, just prior to the start of each of our Open League seasons.  Additional evaluation sessions are help mid-season as needed.  Upon completion of the evaluation session players will be placed in the proper division based on their hockey skills.  While you can register in person on the day of the evaluation session, it is recommended that you register online ahead of time to reduce the time it takes to check in.

>The Open League is our main league and plays two 20 game seasons a year, plus playoffs, usually starting in late spring and early winter. All new players to the league must attend a league sponsored on ice evaluation before being allowed to play so we can place you in the proper division to be drafted. Again, everyone new to the Open League MUST attend an evaluation to determine your skill level before we can place you on a team. We do not allow subs or part time players. Depending upon availability and need, we sometimes have a mid-season eval to fill open roster spots. Sometimes we have one and sometimes we do not. It depends on the availability of open roster spots.

Evaluations are not try-outs. The evals are simply our way of judging your talent level so we can place you into the proper division to be drafted. The eval consists of skating and puck handling drills with the last :45 minutes or so being a full scrimmage. Full gear is required. We try to place everyone who signs up but that depends on roster availability each season.

Fall  Season to start near end of October 2025.

The cost per full season is $610  which includes 20 games plus additional playoff games for higher seeded teams. No practices or other additional ice time included, although some teams rent the ice and have their own practices/scrimmages, etc..

New Open league players, whether earmarked for an existing team or new to the league without a team, will need to attend evaluations before you are eligible to play

New Players without a team
*** If you are a new player to Open league, even if you have played in Rec or Beginner, but DO NOT have a specific team that you are trying out for, then your evaluation will be held on:

Tuesday, October 14th, at 9:10 PM at The Ice in Cumming
Check-in will open at 7:30 PM and ON-Ice drills/scrimmage starts promptly at 9:10 pm.

Please arrive early enough to check in and get dressed and ready to go on the ice promptly at 9:10 PM

EARMARKED New Players
*** If you are a new player to the Open league, even if you have played in the Rec or Beginner league before, and have a specific team that you are trying out for, then your evaluation will be held on:

Sunday, September 28th, at 10:10 PM at The Ice in Cumming
Check-in will open at 8:30 PM and ON-Ice drills/scrimmage starts promptly at 10:10 pm.

Please arrive early enough to check in and get dressed and ready to step on the ice by 10:10 PM


If you are unable to attend your evaluation please contact your captain, or email newplayers@atlantahockey.org to determine how to proceed.  Players who are not evaluated are not eligible to play.


If you have any specific questions, please check the New Player page on the website for answers, or email newplayers@atlantahockey.org
 

Additionally for payment options include

1 payment - $610 due up front

2 payments - $310 due up front, $300 due on October 14th

3 payments - $210 due up front, $200 due on September 14th, $200 due on October 14th

The Open League plays on every day of the week except Mondays and Fridays, so one week you could play Tuesday night and then the following Sunday afternoon and then not until the following Sunday and then maybe not until the following Thursday, etc. Lots of people miss games for whatever reason, (work travel, personal reasons, or other conflicts, etc) and that is perfectly fine. 

If you are new to the league AND you missed the beginning of the season and would like to join as soon as possible and would like to be placed on the waiting/contact list please fill out the New Player Information Form from the link in RED above. (Link is temporarily unavailable and not necessary when Open League Registration is open)  We usually have a mid season eval  at the halfway point in each season.  As mentioned, if you have interest to play and you have missed the pre season eval, filling out the form will get you placed on the waiting list and you will contacted when we set up the mid season eval. If you sign up after the mid season eval, you will have to wait until the start of the next season.  Mid season evals usually take place in late July/ August or Jan/Feb.

The secondary/mid season eval dates will not be posted here as it is an invite event only for those who have filled out the new player form. 
For additional questions, please send an email to newplayers@atlantahockey.org

Please include in the email a detailed description of your hockey background. (how long you have played, what levels, where, age, etc. It will help us expedite getting you into the league if openings pop up.

>>The Rec League has no eval requirement and only plays on Friday nights.

Click HERE for registration information..

>>>The Over 35 league is a supplemental league whereas you must have played in the Open League a minimum of 4 seasons to be eligible to play in this league.

Please refer to the 'League' pages on this site for other information about those leagues.