"We don't need home shirts because we won't be hosting any teams at our home rink. There isn't one, " coach Andrew Kibblewhite said.
"Our away shirts are all that we'll need."
The newly formed team of boys and girls from the Teviot Valley, aged between 9 and 15, has spent lots of time on the road this season travelling to Alexandra and Gore to train and plans to enter the Southern Ice Hockey League competition next season.
League president Daryl Soper, of Mataura, said there were no other teams in the competition which did not have a home ice rink.
"That's probably a first for us. There are no others in that situation, but we're pleased to have them and it's great that Roxburgh's got together a team. They're a pretty dedicated bunch, too. You'd have to be with all that travelling. It's an expensive sport that way."
Three of the current clubs in the league - Dunedin, Gore and Queenstown - have covered ice rinks, while players in Tekapo, Alexandra and the Maniototo have a limited season on their home rinks, which are outdoors and uncovered.
The Roxburgh Raiders will play in the Teviot Valley colours of green, gold and white and the cost of uniforms would be covered by a grant, Mr Kibblewhite said.
He was approached by Roxburgh youth worker Carol Houston and some parents of school-age children earlier this year about forming an ice hockey team.
"We approached the [Roxburgh Area] school and asked for interest and got a couple of children along, which built up to five or six and then nine and 10 and now we get up to 18 along. More kids are wanting to start, too. Our players go to school and talk about the sport and other kids get interested."
Mr Kibblewhite has a background in outdoor education and began playing ice hockey when he was 12, representing Canterbury in the sport at age-group level.
The Raiders started this season with a 10-week programme based at the Ice Sports Southland complex in Gore, followed by a similar programme at the Ice Inline rink in Alexandra.
"Some had never been skating before and most were at the beginner skating level, so to go from that to ready to enter the league next year is massive progress in a season, " he said.
"They're all right into it and are keen to carry on and are buying the gear. They don't want the season to finish and we'll perhaps look at doing some training on roller-blades in the off-season."
He would seek a dispensation to enter the squad in one age-group of the youth grades in the competition so all the new players could remain together despite the wide range of ages.
Mr Soper said the league would do its best to accommodate the new team.
The new club has been fundraising to pay for ice time and several sausage sizzles had helped boost funds.
