New Team Application

The Midwest Inline Hockey Association (MIHA) is a newly designed league which was built to attract highly talented and intermediate level inline hockey players from across the Midwest region. MIHA hosts twenty events per season, throughout Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York and is home to roughly sixty-five teams. The cost per tournament is $590 per team and a team can play in a maximum of 5 tournaments per season.

Please complete the following application for entry into the Midwest Inline Hockey Association. A $300 deposit is required with the submission of the application to reserve a spot for the season. If your application is denied the deposit will be refunded. If your application is approved, the deposit will be applied to the teams final tournament of the season. If a team drops out of a tournament without a sufficient one months notice, they will forfeit their deposit to the league. More info on season format is listed below

Team Roster

2024 - 2025 Season Information

Tournament Selection

Before the start of the season, each team will be given a tournament list. Teams will be asked to rank which events they'd like to attend. Once all the rankings are returned, teams will be placed into a draft where  a maximum of 4 tournaments will be selected for the team to compete in. Draft selections will be based on these rankings. Teams have the option to play in fewer than 4 tournaments. The draft is composed of multiple rounds and each team is awarded one tournament pick per round. The order in which teams get to select their tournaments is based on seniority.

Divisions

Teams will select which division they would like to compete in,  the divisions are as follows;

TIER I is considered equivalent to NARCH/TOHRS/SW – pro/gold

TIER II is considered equivalent to NARCH/TORHS/SW – silver/bronze

TIER III is considered equivalent to Bronze/Copper divisions. Higher level players are kept out of T3. There is a 4 goal limit per player per game.

TIER IV These players typically don’t attend many national tournaments. There is a 3 goal limit per player per game.

TIER V is our lowest division. This division is for recreational players only. There is a 3 goal limit per player per game.

** If it is determined that a team or player is unfit for their division, they will be moved accordingly or removed.

Tournament Format

Each individual tournament schedule is composed of round robin games on Saturday and a single elimination playoff on Sunday. Teams play two round robin games and are seeded into the single elimination playoff bracket based on their record during round robin. 

Once all the round-robin games have been played, Teams in each pool will then be ranked based on their win/loss record. Any ties will be broken based the following statistics; 1) Most Wins, 2) Fewest Regulation Loses, 3) Head to Head, 4) Goal Differential,  5) Fewest Goals Against, 6) Most Goals For, 7) Season Standings.

Playing rules can be found here

Season Format

Throughout the course of a team’s 4 tournament season schedule they earn points for each game they play in (3 points for a win, 2 points for an OT loss and 1 point for a regulation loss). The regular season is very fluid as it doesn’t contain a fixed number of games or opponents. Teams simply play in tournaments, earning points for each game. A team could face a new opponent at any time. At the end of the regular season teams are ranked by points and the top 10 teams in each division are invited to championships.

MIHA Important information for new teams