Money · Youth Sports
What youth sports actually cost in Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Allen and Prosper
Not the registration fee. The whole bill: fees, the team fee your coach collects later, and the equipment nobody warns you about. We put 20 local programmes side by side, which is more than any league will ever do for you.
Soccer
Registration runs about $105 a season across five cities. Gear adds $40 to $75 once, and carries over until your kid outgrows it. It is the cheapest organised sport in this index by a wide margin.
| Programme | City | Registration | Gear | First season | After that |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frisco Soccer AssociationRec | Frisco | $100–120From our own experience | $40–75 | $140–195 | $100–120 |
| Plano Sports Authority (PSA)Rec | Plano | $100–120From our own experience | $40–75 | $140–195 | $100–120 |
| Plano Youth Soccer Association (PYSA)Rec | Plano | $100–120From our own experience | $40–75 | $140–195 | $100–120 |
| Prosper Area Soccer Organization (PASO)Rec | Prosper | $100–120From our own experience | $40–75 | $140–195 | $100–120 |
| McKinney Soccer Association (MSA)Rec · 4U through 19U, boys and girls, birth years 2021-2006 | McKinney | $105Published by the league | $40–75 | $145–180 | $105 |
| Allen Sports Association (ASA)Rec · 4U through 18U-19U | Allen | $100–120From our own experience | $65–115 | $165–235 | $100–120 |
Football
Registration fees differ by about $100 across these cities. Tackle equipment costs $300 to $500. So the fee a league advertises is close to noise - and the cheapest registration can buy you the most expensive season.
| Programme | City | Registration | Gear | First season | After that |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Sports Association (ASA) · FlagRec · Kindergarten-4th grade | Allen | $120–130Published by the league | $25–40 | $145–170 | $120–130 |
| Frisco Football League (FFL) · FlagRec · Kindergarten-1st grade | Frisco | $300incl. $100 team feeAs published in 2020 — may have risen since | $60–85 | $360–385 | $310–320 |
| McKinney Sports Connection · TackleRec · 2nd-6th grade | McKinney | $100–125As published in 2023 — may have risen since | $390–600 | $490–725 | $110–145 |
| Allen Sports Association (ASA) · TackleRec · 2nd-6th grade | Allen | $165Published by the league | $335–515 | $500–680 | $175–185 |
| Frisco Football League (FFL) · Rookie TackleRec · 2nd-3rd grade | Frisco | $350incl. $150 team feeAs published in 2020 — may have risen since | $260–380 | $610–730 | $360–370 |
| Frisco Football League (FFL) · TackleRec · 4th-6th grade | Frisco | $350incl. $150 team feeAs published in 2020 — may have risen since | $260–380 | $610–730 | $360–370 |
| Plano Sports Authority (PSA)Rec · Kindergarten-12th grade | Plano | Not publishedPublished by the league | None | Not published | Not published |
| Prosper Youth Sports Association (Prosper PYSA) · TackleRec | Prosper | Not publishedPublished by the league | None | Not published | Not published |
Hockey
A Metro league season is $1,049 to $1,449 before a single pad, and a full kit is $555 to $1,720 on top. But the way in costs $104 - and almost nobody knows it.
| Programme | City | Registration | Gear | First season | After that |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Community Ice Rink · Learn to Skate: Hockey 1Rec · Ages 6-14 | Allen | $91–104Published by the league | $110–380 | $201–484 | $91–104 |
| Dallas Stars Hockey Academy (StarCenter Plano) · Hockey AcademyRec · Little Rookies 4-8, Junior Rookies 9-14, Girls Rookies 4-14 | Plano | $200–225Published by the league | $150–580 | $350–805 | $240–425 |
| Dallas Stars Metro Hockey League (StarCenter Plano) · League 6UClub · 6U | Plano | $1049–1149Published by the league | $555–1720 | $1604–2869 | $1094–1379 |
| Dallas Stars Metro Hockey League (StarCenter Plano) · League 8U-18UClub · 8U, 10U, 12U, 14U, 16U, 18U (USA Hockey birth years) | Plano | $1449–1549Published by the league | $555–1720 | $2004–3269 | $1494–1779 |
| Allen Community Ice Rink - Jr. Americans · In-house leagueRec · Mite (8U) and Squirt (10U) | Allen | Not publishedPublished by the league | $555–1720 | Not published | Not published |
| Allen Hockey Association (Allen Bandits) · Competitive clubSelect · 10UA, 10UA2, 12UA, 12UA2 | Allen | Not publishedPublished by the league | $555–1720 | Not published | Not published |
How we worked this out
Registration fees come from each organisation's own pages where they publish them. Most do not. Where a figure is our own estimate or comes from a page that has not been updated in years, the table says so under the number rather than leaving you to assume it is current.
Gear prices are retail, checked in October 2026, mostly at Academy. That is deliberate: a helmet costs what it costs on Preston Road, so national pricing is fine for equipment. League fees are different and have to be local, so we never substitute a national average for one.
Where a total reads “from” a number, something required has no published price, usually a uniform a coach arranges privately. We would rather show you a floor than a tidy number that is wrong. Uniform figures marked as our estimate are exactly that.
Socks, water bottles and other things every league requires are left out of totals, because adding them to every row inflates all of them equally and changes no comparison.
Think a figure is wrong, or paid something different? Tell us. A receipt from a parent beats anything we can find online, and this page gets better every time someone does.