By the Puck Drop Prints team. Updated October 2026.
College club hockey jerseys cost $55 to $99 each on a six-jersey minimum, with names, numbers and worldwide shipping included. A 22-player club in Sublimated kits (jersey, socks and pant shell) lands at $2,200, or $100 per player. Production runs four to six weeks, so the order has to beat your first game by a month.
Club hockey is the only level of the sport where the guy ordering the jerseys is also taking a full course load, chasing 22 Venmo payments, and handing the whole operation off to a sophomore in May.
Nobody hands a club team an equipment manager. Your program lives on dues, a student-government line item, and whatever the alumni golf outing brought in. So the jersey decision is not really about fabric, it is about ordering something a treasurer who has not been elected yet can reorder for a player who has not been recruited yet.
Here is how to do that without paying for it twice.
How much do college club hockey jerseys cost?
A club team pays $55 to $99 per jersey depending on construction, on a minimum order of six. Names and numbers are included on every type, matching custom socks are $20 a pair with a team order, and shipping is free worldwide. Full Uni Kits run $100 to $134 per player, so a 22-player roster pays $2,200 to $2,948.
Those are published prices, so a club treasurer can put an exact number in front of a student activities board without waiting on a quote.
| Jersey type | Jersey each | Uni Kit per player | 22-player kit total | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roller (kit = jersey + roller pants, inline only) | $55 | $100 | $2,200 | 4 to 5 weeks |
| Sublimated | $65 | $100 | $2,200 | 4 to 5 weeks |
| Reversible | $99 | $134 | $2,948 | 4 to 5 weeks |
| Tackle twill (Pro) | $99 | $134 | $2,948 | 5 to 6 weeks |
Want the full uniform? Uni Kits are priced per player at 6+ players: Sublimated kit $100 (reg $120), Tackle Twill kit $134 (reg $154), Reversible kit $134 (reg $154), and the Roller kit (jersey + roller pants) $100. Pant shells are $35 and socks $20 on their own. See the pricing page, or start building yours in the jersey customizer.
Two numbers worth writing into the budget request. Every team order comes with a free swag store, which means your program gets its own branded merch store, a fundraising channel most club teams do not know they qualify for. And every team order includes free custom logo design, with the artwork staying yours afterward.
Full numbers live on the custom hockey jersey pricing page.
A 22-player club in Sublimated kits runs $2,200, $100 per player for jersey, socks and pant shell.
Which jersey type should a club team order?
Sublimated at $65 is the right answer for almost every club program. Sublimation is a process that dyes the design directly into the fabric, so graphics cannot peel, crack or lift. It is the heaviest of the four at 220 GSM, has double-layered shoulders and elbows, and costs $34 less per jersey than tackle twill.
GSM is grams per square metre, the weight of the fabric, and the fastest way to tell a real hockey sweater from a beer-league costume. Higher is heavier and more durable.
| Jersey type | Fabric weight | Double-layered shoulders & elbows | Embroidered logos |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roller | 110 GSM | No | No |
| Sublimated | 220 GSM | Yes | No |
| Reversible | 160 GSM | Yes | No |
| Tackle twill (Pro) | 210 GSM | Yes | Yes |
Sublimated jerseys are 220 GSM, the heaviest fabric of the four types.
Tackle twill is stitched fabric lettering and crests sewn onto the jersey rather than printed into it. It looks and feels like an NHL sweater and it is the one type that carries embroidered logos. It is also the slowest at five to six weeks, and on a club budget that $34 gap times 22 players is $748, roughly a bus.
Reversibles at $99 are the practical pick if your league needs light and dark and the program cannot fund two sets, one reversible order beats two sublimated sets at $130 per player, at 160 GSM instead of 220. The sublimated vs tackle twill vs roller breakdown runs the full comparison. Roller at $55 and 110 GSM is built for inline; do not put it on ice and expect it to survive four winters of D3 travel.
Your roster turns over every year. Order for that.
A club program loses roughly a quarter of its roster to graduation every year and replaces it at a tryout that ends in late September. The set you buy this fall has to absorb four or five new names annually for as long as it lasts, and the reorder tier is where clubs quietly lose money.
Sublimated reorders of one or two pieces are $85 each. Three or more in the same order drop back to $65. Same jersey, same design, $20 apart, the only variable is whether your incoming captain batched the request.
The reorder trap
Four recruits, two ways to pay for them
Four sublimated jerseys ordered one at a time across the fall: 4 × $85 = $340
The same four ordered together after tryouts close: 4 × $65 = $260
$80 saved by waiting nine days for the roster to settle. Reorders require an existing team order on file.
Three design rules follow from a roster that never sits still:
- No year on the jersey. "2026-27" turns a four-season asset into a one-season one and makes every reorder look like a mismatch.
- No senior-specific detail. Captain's patches are fine because they move. Graduating-class numbers on a sleeve are not.
- Leave number gaps. Retiring a number is a nice tradition and an expensive one when the set only has 22 of them.
Custom names and numbers are included on every jersey type at no extra cost.
The other thing that kills a club order is roster collection: 22 students, three group chats, and a size chart nobody opened. Send the sizes and numbers request the day tryouts end, not the day the design is approved, the full method is in how to collect jersey sizes, names and numbers, and the measurements are on the size charts page.
When does a college club team have to order?
Count backwards from your first game, not from tryouts. Sublimated, reversible and roller run four to five weeks; tackle twill runs five to six. Add a week for design and roster collection on top, because the clock does not start until the artwork is signed off.
| First game | Sublimated / reversible / roller, approve design by | Tackle twill, approve design by |
|---|---|---|
| October 10, 2026 | September 5, 2026 (passed) | August 29, 2026 (passed) |
| November 7, 2026 | October 3, 2026 (passed) | September 26, 2026 (passed) |
| January 16, 2027 | December 12, 2026 | December 5, 2026 |
If your season opens in the first half of October and you have not started, you are ordering for the second half of the year. Plenty of club teams open in loaners and debut the real sweaters at the first home weekend after fall break. It is only a disaster if nobody says it out loud in September.
The sequence is short: submit an inquiry, get a reply by email, work through design, fill in the Team Order Info spreadsheet, approve, then three to four weeks of production. The how it works page lays out every step.
Who actually pays for club hockey jerseys?
Club hockey is pay-to-play, which means the players do. Pay-to-play means the roster funds the program through dues rather than an athletic department line item. Against the rest of a club budget the jersey is one of the smallest numbers on the page, which is exactly why it should not be the fight.
Ice time and travel are where the real money goes in a club budget. Against those lines, a $100 Sublimated kit is a small, fixed number per player, which makes it the easiest item on the page to approve early.
The ACHA runs men's Division 1, 2 and 3 and women's Division 1 and 2, and the funding model looks broadly the same across all five: dues, fundraising, and a student-government allocation on a fiscal calendar that rarely lines up with a hockey season. Get the jersey line approved in the spring cycle if your school has one. Ordering in September with money you are still collecting is how programs split an order in half and pay the one-or-two-piece reorder rate of $85 twice.
Matching custom socks are included in every Uni Kit, or $20 a pair on their own with a team order.
What to lock down before the season starts
Six things, in this order, and the season starts boring instead of frantic. Most club programs get four of them right and lose money on the other two, almost always the budget approval and the handoff note, because those are the two nobody inherits.
- Jersey type and colorway, decided by returning players, not by the incoming class.
- Budget approval, the full kit number, at the per-player figure your treasurer will quote in the group chat.
- Design, logo design is free with a team order and the artwork stays with the program, so this is the one step that pays off for years.
- Roster collection, sizes, names and numbers, on one spreadsheet, with a deadline that is not "whenever."
- Approval, one person signs off. Design by committee is how you miss October.
- The handoff note, order date, design file location, reorder tiers, written down for whoever runs the club next year. Four minutes, and it saves your successor $80 a head.
That last one is the difference between a program and a group of guys who buy jerseys every year.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much do college club hockey jerseys cost?
Custom college club hockey jerseys at Puck Drop Prints cost $55 for roller, $65 for sublimated, and $99 for reversible or tackle twill, on a team order of six or more. Names, numbers and worldwide shipping are included in every price. Matching custom socks are $20 a pair with a team order. A 22-player roster in Sublimated kits (jersey, socks and pant shell) totals $2,200, or $100 per player.
What is the minimum order for club hockey team jerseys?
The minimum team order is six jerseys, and that minimum applies to all four jersey types, roller, sublimated, reversible and tackle twill. Single one-off custom jerseys are not available. A club program can order a single additional jersey later, but only as a reorder against a team order already on file.
Can a club team add jerseys for players who make the roster late?
Yes. Reorders are available to any team with an existing order on file. Sublimated reorders cost $85 each for one or two pieces and $65 each for three or more in the same order, so batching late additions after tryouts saves $20 per jersey. Roller reorders run $85 for one or two pieces and $55 at three or more; reversible and tackle twill reorders are $99 each.
How long do custom club hockey jerseys take to make?
Roller, sublimated and reversible jerseys take four to five weeks. Tackle twill takes five to six weeks. Those windows start after the design is approved, not when the inquiry is submitted, so a club team should add a week for design work and roster collection. Counting back from a January 16 game, a sublimated design needs approval by December 12.
Should a club team put the graduation year on the jersey?
No. A club roster turns over by roughly a quarter every year, and a dated jersey turns a set that should last four seasons into a one-season set. Every reorder for an incoming player then looks like a mismatch. Keep the design year-free, use removable captain's patches for anything roster-specific, and leave unused numbers in the set.
Who owns the logo artwork when the club's officers graduate?
The team does. Custom logo design is free with a team order at Puck Drop Prints, and the program keeps the artwork for future orders. That matters more for club hockey than for any other level, because the person who commissioned the design will have graduated before the jerseys wear out. Record where the file lives in the handoff note for the next executive board.
Get your club's order started
Club season does not wait for the budget meeting. If your first game is in January, the design needs approval by mid-December, and the fastest way there is to start the design now and sort the roster while the artwork is being drawn.
Start Your Order and get the design moving.
