How to Create a Hockey League Registration Form

Olivier Rousseau
24 January 2025 Hockey 2 min read

Creating a registration form for a hockey league doesn’t have to be complicated. With Activity Messenger, you can easily set up a streamlined process to collect player information, payments, and even manage team rosters. Whether you’re running a league, arena, or community rink, our drag-and-drop form builder makes it easy to get started.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you set up your hockey league registration form.

Author’s noteOlivier shares tips and tricks he’s learned over the past decade as the owner of a kids’s sports program. Today, as co-founder of Activity Messenger, he helps hundreds of Hockey schools and academies across North America simplify the management of their camps and clinics.

Step 1: Setting Up Your League Information

Start by creating a new registration form and adding the necessary league details. You can include:

  • League Name: Customize the name of your league to reflect your specific event.
  • Price: Set the registration fee for participants.
  • Maximum Spots: Define the maximum number of players allowed.

 Setting Up Your League Information

You can also add a schedule with game dates and times. For example, you might specify that games are held every Saturday at 4 p.m. from September to November. If needed, you can adjust the dates and add the event location.

schedule with game dates and times

 

Step 2: Collecting Player Information

Once the league details are set, the next step is to collect information about the players. The registration form allows you to:

  • Collect essential details such as name, email, and phone number.
  • Make fields mandatory or optional, depending on the importance of the information.
  • Add custom questions to gather any additional data you need, such as skill level or preferred position

Collecting Player Information

Step 3: Adding Terms and Conditions

It’s important to include liability waivers and cancellation policies to ensure participants are aware of the league’s terms. Activity Messenger allows you to:

  • Easily copy and paste your cancellation policy, making it a required field for participants to accept.
  • Add a liability waiver with an “I have read and accept” checkbox.
  • Require a digital signature to ensure compliance.

Step 4: Payment Collection

Activity Messenger offers multiple payment options, ensuring flexibility for registrants. After filling in their information, players can:

  • Pay immediately via credit card or Interac e-Transfer.
  • Choose to “pay later,” with an automatic invoice sent to their email.
  • Have their payment status tracked, with options to manually mark invoices as paid (e.g., for check payments).

Payment Collection for Hockey Leagues

Step 5: Managing Attendance and Teams

After registrations are complete, you can use Activity Messenger to:

  • Generate an attendance list, showing who has registered and paid.
  • Easily split participants into teams, assigning players to groups such as Team A, B, or C.
  • Move players between teams as needed, ensuring balanced rosters.

📌 Pro Tip: Sometimes, you’ll need to communicate with players for schedule change or last minute cancellations. In those cases, you can easily target specific teams or players and send bulk SMS to make sure they see the notifications.

Step 6: Sharing the Registration Form

Sharing your form is simple and can be done through various channels:

  • QR Code: Print and display at the front desk for easy scanning.
  • Website Embed: Embed the form directly on your website.
  • Email & SMS: Send a link to previous participants, notifying them that registration is open.

You can even import your contact list from previous seasons to send reminders via email or text and give them priority registration over new players.

More Tools for Hockey Camps and Academy Owners

Managing registrations for your hockey league can be a complex task, but with the right online platform, you can streamline the process and improve the experience for players, parents, and administrators alike.

Activity Messenger provides a complete solution for hockey leagues, offering online registration, payments and automated reminders all in one platform.

Here are a few more ways Activity Messenger can help manage and grow your Hockey Club or Academy.

Written by Olivier Rousseau Olivier is a kids sports programs owner who has been operating for over a decade with locations in Montreal, Quebec city & Ottawa. He also helps Gymnastics Club, Swim Schools and Dance Studios streamline their operations. He is the co-founder of Activity Messenger an online registration platform for the sports & leisure industry.

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