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| [[image:hat-anniversary-crest.png|thumb]] Hattrick was launched in August 1997. At that time of the first release, his game designer, [[HT-Bjorn|Björn Holmér]], was the sole developer of the [[match engine]].
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| In the beginning of 2000, after Season 7, '''[[Extralives]] AB''' was founded and in team they began development from scratch, with an all new graphical interface, shaping the game as it is today.
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| In 2009 there were up to 990,000 human users in Hattrick, the maximum number ever recorded so far.
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| Hattrick is been voted the Most Favourite Simulation Game of 2011!
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| At the beginning of 2012, Hattrick joins Zattika, a games publisher focused on social and mobile gaming. Surprisingly, but to the relief of many users, Zattika sells Hattrick back to the old owners in 2013, only a year after his purchase, due to financial problems.
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| The development of the game goes on, but unfortunately in this period some well respected and known colleagues such as [[HT-Klas]] and [[HT-Tjecken]] have to say goodbye.
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| <br><big><big><b>Versioning</b></big></big>
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| * The '''beta release ([[Hattrick 1]])''' lasted only seven weeks (or rounds), and all changes to the team were made by submitting a HTML form with the user's username and password, meaning that the user never actually logged in to the interface.
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| * The release was re-coded and '''Version 2.0 ([[Hattrick 2]])''' was launched. Hattrick expands to 680 teams, [[Allsvenskan]], division 1, division 2 and division 3 are created.
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| : Season 2 also saw the first ever international match, between [[Sverige]] and [[Danmark]], with Danmark winning 1-2. This match was relatively meaningless, however, since the teams' players were clones of each other.
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| * A '''third version ([[Hattrick 3]])''' was released the following season. This release marked the debut of [[friendly]] and [[cup]] matches. On February 2000, it supported the first [[translation]] ever of the whole game, from Swedish to English (future translations will be completely done by [[LA]] volunteers).
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| * Season 7, which began in July 1999, marked some real progress in the game with '''[[Hattrick 4]]''' so that managers could set their players' individual tactics (such as offensive or defensive) and also change their formation from the fundamental [[4-4-2]] and choose [[team attitude]] (at the time the game allowed you to choose between play cowardly/play it safe/optimistic/all out attack).
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| * ExtraLives were formed in the beginning of 2000 and quickly got pregnant with '''[[Hattrick 5|V.5]]''', which where conceived, with remarkable small complications, about 9 month later. //[[HT-Björn]]
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| * In 2002 is time for a Match engine renovation: [[Hattrick 6]] adds [[National Team]]s, International Friendlies, [[Special Event]]s, [[Weather]] and [[Tactics]]. Starting from here, the game witnesses an incredible growth in popularity, almost reaching the million users in the next 7 years.
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| [[Image:League-History.gif|frame|center|Animated history of Hattrick's expansion (season 1 - 31)]]
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| * In 2010, after 8 years of honored service, the old V.6 engine retires. This is not an official new ME release, but the changes to the simulation are such that we can talk about a total makeover (expecially in regular chances distribution during the match).
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| <br><big><big><b>Seasons</b></big></big>
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| Note: The date shown is the first day of the season - the Sunday before round 1 in the series.
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| ===Season 1 (1997/08/30)===
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| * Hattrick is born.
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| * 16 teams in Hattrick.
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| * Two test series are played in 7 rounds.
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| * This is how [https://www.hattrick.org/en/img/history/nostalgilogga.gif HT logo looked like]
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| ===Season 2 (1997/11/23)===
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| * HT2! A new and dynamic Hattrick wakes up after a long break due to re-coding and a move to the portal ''passagen.se''.
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| * The new release allowed for a total of 680 teams and added a few features still available today, such as the [[transfer list]] and a [[league pyramid]] though teams' positions in the series were determined by random selection during the offseason.
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| * The first [[national team]] game ever is played. [[Sweden]] – [[Denmark]] 1-2. The Danish team where a clone of the Swedish player wise.
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| * A new type of [[transfer]] system is implemented (before you could bid on any player and if the owner accepted the offer the transfer was made).
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| ===Season 3 (1998/04/05)===
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| * HT3
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| * [[Friendly]] matches and [[cup]] matches are now playable.
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| * Big problems with the servers during the [[Off-season|silly season]], Hattrick is down a few weeks.
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| * Hattrick expands to 1704 teams. Division IV is created with 128 series.
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| * [[Cup]] and training games are introduced, [[Zakrock Rooch]] are the first cup champions in HT.
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| ===Season 4 (1998/07/26)===
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| * [[Training|Special training]] features such as training types beyond [[general]], [[stamina]] and [[set pieces]].
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| * Thanks to the new special training [[Per Emilsson]] (57216) in [[Juveby IF]] goes through the roof of the match grading system, and as the first and only player ever he gets the grade “saint” – it was a kind of impossible dummy value [[HT-Björn]] used if the impossible should happen.
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| * The week after Per Emilsson where declared a saint the grade system was changed !'s where added after the maximum 5 [[stars]].
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| * The new grading system was; 0, H, HH, HHH, *, **, ***, ****, *****, *****!, *****!! And so on.
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| * Added an expanded set of in-game [[skill]] levels.
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| ===Season 5 (1998/11/15)===
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| ''Nothing in particular happened this season according to the history books.''
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| ===Season 6 (1999/03/14)===
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| ''If something extraordinary really happened this season it didn't make it into the history books.''
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| ===Season 7 (1999/07/03)===
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| * HT4
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| * [[Individual order]]s with repositioned players where introduced!
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| * New tactical options were added (Before you could only play [[4-4-2]] with “Normal” settings).
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| ===Season 8 (1999/10/24)===
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| * HT5 was released, roughly nine months after ExtraLives AB were formed. It brought to the game new remarkable features as [[Live]] matches and [[Specialty|Specialties]].
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| ===Season 9 (2000/02/13)===
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| * The community are moved from passagen.se to [[Delphikonferensen|Delphi]] forums.
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| * [[HTSCB]], the first external site with automatic generated statistic, is created.
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| ===Season 10 (2000/06/04)===
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| * Hattrick’s classic design is buried.
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| ===Season 11 (2000/10/05) ===
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| * The launch of HT5 added features such as live matches, (which replaced the matches that previously occurred during downtime each night), instant transfer processing, 15 different player skill levels including the current peak level "divine", and the "stars" system for player performance rating.
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| * Hattrick added more nations beyond Sverige: [[Argentina]], [[Deutschland]], [[England]], [[France]], [[Italia]], [[México]] (originally as Spain), and [[USA]]. Users who had previously played in Sverige and new users alike filled these nations' new leagues.
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| * At this time the game had a capacity of roughly 12,000 users.
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| ===Season 12 (2001) ===
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| * At the beginning of Season 12 teams were placed in the same series as they finished and the promotion/demotion system was established.
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| * Spain was renamed to [[México]].
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| * New leagues: [[Nederland]], [[Norge]].
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| * Hattrick Supporter was launched before Season 13.
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| ===Season 13 ===
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| * New leagues: [[Brasil]], [[Canada]], [[Chile]], [[China]], [[Colombia]], [[Danmark]], [[España]], [[Hanguk]], [[India]], [[Ireland]], [[Misr]], [[Nippon]], [[Oceania]], [[Perú]], [[Polska]], [[Portugal]], [[Prathet Thai]], [[România]], [[Rossiya]], [[Scotland]], [[South Africa]], [[Suomi]], [[Türkiye]], [[Uruguay]], [[Venezuela]].
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| ===Season 14===
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| * Conferences system and Hattrick mobile were added.
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| * New leagues: [[België]], [[Ísland]], [[Malaysia]], [[Österreich]], [[Schweiz]], [[Singapore]].
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| ===Season 15 (2002) ===
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| * The launch of HT6, in January 2002.
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| * The developers create the [[special events]], a concept very familiar to every manager today.
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| * Also added the first official [[national teams]], and with it [[World Cup|World Cups]] and [[International friendly|international friendly matches]]. The first World Cup was held in [[Nippon]] and [[Hanguk]] at the end of the season, with Sverige beating England 4-0.
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| * V. Division in Deutschland.
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| * HT6 did not solve the growing economic problems within the game, however. The developers resorted to giving out 200,000 Euros (or the equivalent in each country's currency) to each team to boost the in-game economy, which had entered the equivalent of a depression.
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| ===Season 16===
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| * The first [[U-20 World Cup]] is played.
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| * New leagues: [[Česká republika]], [[Eesti]], [[Hellas]], [[Hrvatska]], [[Indonesia]], [[Latvija]], [[Magyarország]], [[Philippines]] and [[Srbija]] (originally as Srbija i Crna Gora);
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| ===Season 17===
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| * New leagues: [[Chinese Taipei]], [[Hong Kong]].
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| ===Season 18===
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| * VI. Division established in España, Nederland and Deutschland.
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| * New leagues: [[Bulgaria]], [[Cymru]], [[Israel]], [[Slovenija]] (because of an error their first season is called 'season 2').
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| ===Season 19 (2003) ===
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| * VII. Division in Nederland.
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| ===Season 20===
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| * Hattrick 6.5 was introduced.
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| * VI. Division established in Italia, Polska and Suomi; VII. Division in Schweiz.
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| * New leagues: [[Bosna i Hercegovina]], [[Lietuva]], [[Pakistan]], [[Slovensko]], [[Vietnam]] and [[Ukraine]].
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| ===Season 21===
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| * VI. Division in Chile, France, Israel, Österreich; VII. Division in Argentina, België, Deutschland and España.
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| * For the first time, the Hattrick universe is restored from a backup: [[Black Friday]] happens before round 3 on November 28th, 2003.
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| * New leagues: [[Al Maghrib]], [[Bolivia]], [[Ecuador]], [[Føroyar]], [[Nigeria]] and [[Paraguay]];
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| ===Season 22 (2004) ===
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| * New leagues: [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Tounes]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Lëtzebuerg]], [[Iran]], [[Republica Dominicana]], [[Cyprus]] and [[United Arab Emirates]].
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| ===Season 23===
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| * VIII. Division in Deutschland.
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| * New leagues: [[Northern Ireland]], [[Belarus]], [[FYR Makedonija]], [[Panamá]], [[Kenya]] and [[Jamaica]].
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| ===Season 24===
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| * IX. Division in Deutschland.
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| * New leagues: [[El Salvador]], [[Honduras]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Malta]], [[Moldova]] and [[Shqipëria]].
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| ===Season 25 (2005) ===
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| * New leagues: [[Al Urdun]], [[Andorra]], [[Sakartvelo]] and [[Guatemala]].
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| ===Season 26===
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| * X. Division in Deutschland.
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| * new leagues: [[Suriname]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Trinidad & Tobago]] and [[Kazakhstan]].
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| ===Season 27===
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| * [[Hattrick Manager License Challenge]] is launched.
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| * VII. Division in [[England]]; XI. Division in Deutschland.
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| * New leagues: [[Al Jazair]], [[Hayastan]], [[Lubnan]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Mongol Uls]] and [[Sénégal]].
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| ===Season 28 (2006/01/01) ===
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| * Played the first [[Hattrick Masters|Hattrick master]].
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| * New leagues: [[Bahrain]], [[Barbados]], [[Cabo Verde]] and [[Côte d’Ivoire]].
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| ===Season 29 (2006/04/23) ===
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| * Announced more than a season in advance, the [[League Reform April 2006|league reform]] was completed during the off-season prior to season 29, in April 2006. At this time, the game's membership was 800,000 strong and the largest countries had swelled to over 60,000 users each, or 12 levels. The league reform intended to solve the problem of [[league pyramid]] capacity, since the growth of larger leagues, such as [[Nederland]] or [[Sverige]], had made it necessary to add a new pyramid level almost every season. Before the league reform, the league pyramid only expanded in size from division 1 to division 6; pyramid levels in division 6 and below were all comprised of 1024 leagues.
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| : Levels 8 and 9 would now double in size to 2048 leagues, and 10 and below would increase to 4096 leagues. Following this restructuring, all [[bot teams]] at that time were relegated to the bottom division, replacing them by promoting extra teams from lower divisions.
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| * Between rounds eleven and twelve, there is a long downtime of about 70 hours. For the second time, the HT universe is restored from a backup (see the article on [[Black Friday]]).
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| * New leagues: [[Al Iraq]] and [[Azərbaycan]].
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| ===Season 30 (2006/08/13) ===
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| * The [[stamina]] [[skill]] is changed: stamina levels fall steadily during the season and [[training]] is revised.
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| * Old players' skills decline more frequently, in smaller increments, than before.
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| * The '''non-existent''' skill [[denominations#Player abilities etc|denomination]] is added.
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| * New leagues: [[Al Kuwayt]], [[Angola]], [[Bangladesh]], [[Crna Gora]]; '''Srbija i Crna Gora''' will be renamed into [[Srbija]].
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| ===Season 31 (2006/12/03) ===
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| * New leagues: [[Al Yaman]] and [[Oman]].
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| === Season 32 (2007/03/25) ===
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| * [[Youth#The New Youth Squad System|Youth academies]] were introduced.
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| === Season 33 (2007/07/15) ===
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| * Player birthdays are individual. Previosly all players had their birthday the same day (in the end of the season). Now all players have their birthday on one of the 112 days of the season.
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| * League extensions up to 10 levels: [[Polska]], [[Portugal]].
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| * New leagues: [[Ghana]], [[Moçambique]], [[Negara Brunei Darussalam]] and [[Prateh Kampuchea]].
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| === Season 34 (2007/11/04) ===
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| * ''FYR Macedonia'' renamed to [[Makedonija]].
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| * New leagues: [[Benin]] and [[Suriyah]].
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| === Season 35 (2008/02/24) ===
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| * The '''new match engine''' is introduced for the regular matches.
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| * [[Fans#Denomination_of_match_expectation_levels|fan expectations]] for a match and the season were introduced.
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| * ''Uman'' renamed to [[Oman]].
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| * New leagues: [[Dawlat Qatar]] and [[Tanzania]].
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| === Season 36 (2008/06/15) ===
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| * League extensions up to 11 levels: [[Italia]]
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| * New leagues: [[Republic of Uganda]] and [[Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa]].
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| === Season 37 (2008/10/05) ===
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| * The [[The_New_Hattrick_Design|new design]] was launched.
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| * New feature: [[Set_Pieces#Indirect_Set_Pieces|Indirect free kicks]].
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| * [[Goalkeeper]]s need [[set pieces]] to save free kicks, but can no longer be your set pieces taker.
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| * [[Play creatively]] tactic was made more efficient.
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| === Season 38 (2009/01/25) ===
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| * Conditional [[substitutions]] was introduced.
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| * [[Long shot tactics]] was introduced.
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| * [[Transfer]] market regulation; you can't transfer list a player more times than he has played games for your team.
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| * Squad limit of 50 players.
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| === Season 39 (2009-05-18) ===
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| * More accurate match ratings including the full effect from confidence, confusion and pulling back.
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| * The team confidence effect was lowered.
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| * A new [[HT-Live]] with Re-live was introduced.
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| * The possibility of managing your team by SMS was removed.
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| * For added security, from now users are able to have a login name different from their nickname.
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| === Season 40 (2009-09-06) ===
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| * Hattrick launched a Facebook application.
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| * Managers can list their favourite teams with a small new feature.
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| * All bot teams from level six and below started to demote to the lowest division at season's end (and teams with active managers started taking their places to spice up the competition).
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| === Season 41 (2009-12-28) ===
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| * The distribution of basic chances in the game engine is changed, making some chances exclusive for each team, to improve the balance and reduce the variance in the game. This also enabled a better handling of the counterattack and pressing tactics.
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| === Season 42 (2010-04-19) ===
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| * A '''new match engine''' that is not based on 4-4-2 and can handle all formations without having to reposition players.
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| * New regular chances distribution system.
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| === Season 43 (2010-08-09) ===
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| * Faster training on many skill levels, but also slower on high levels.
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| * End to longer injuries: when a player gets injured, +4 is now the longest the injury will be.
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| === Season 44 (2010-11-29) ===
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| * General (form) training type is removed.
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| === Season 45 (2011-03-21) ===
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| * [[Cameroon]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Cuba]] and [[Palestine]] are new members of the Hattrick family, now grown to 128 Coutries!
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| === Season 46 (2011-07-11) ===
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| * All users get access to the basic training report.
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| * Match order form is improved with a rating predictor.
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| * Letting two players swap positions on the pitch also becomes possible.
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| === Season 47 (2011-10-31) ===
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| * The [[loyalty]] makes perform better the players in your team for a long time.
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| === Season 48 (2012-02-20) ===
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| * Hattrick joins Zattika.
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| * Hattrick [[Tournaments]].
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| === Season 49 (2012/06/11) ===
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| * New [[Hattrick Manager License Challenge]].
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| === Season 50 (2012/10/01) ===
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| * [[Autobidding]] for transfer market.
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| * It is possibile, through Offerwalls, to earn reward points to get Supporter and Credits without having to spend real life money.
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| === Season 51 (2013/01/21) ===
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| * Hattrick Supporter Platinum, Gold and Silver.
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| === Season 52 (2013/05/13) ===
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| * An alternative competition with a faster pace for those who want more action: [[Tournament#Ladder_tournaments|Ladders]]
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| * Zattika sells Hattrick back to the old owners.
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| === Season 53 (2013/09/02) ===
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| * The community in the anniversary vote requested and gets to dismantle the [[Extra_time#History|Golden Goal]] rule.
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| * Youth teams will no longer have a week off during the senior teams' season break.
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| === Season 54 (2013/12/23) ===
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| * [[CHPP]] applications are allowed again.
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| * New Ladders for Federations tournaments.
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| === Season 55 (2014/04/14) ===
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| * Introduction of the season friendlies (no more training advantage for teams playing qualification matches). More play-offs and play-outs added in the lower divisions to make more matches matter for a longer period during the season.
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| * Supporters can now play more than one tournament at a time, with no limitation to their own country tournament.
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| * Injury history of your players.
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| * New [[staff]] system.
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| === Season 56 (2014/08/04) ===
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| * Redesigned of Cup system and additional Divisional Cups for the lower divisions (to let more teams enjoy the experience of a meaningful cup run).
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| * Is being increased the prize money for winning a tournament and also at earlier stages of the Cup.
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| === Season 57 (2014/11/24) ===
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| * New mobile web and redesigned iPhone and Android apps.
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| === Season 58 (2015/03/16) ===
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| * Revised [[Confidence]].
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| * The training penalty for [[walkover]] has been removed.
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| === Season 59 (2015/07/06) ===
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| * Match report shows all chances in the games after they have been played.
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| * Now you can chat with members of your series, with your match opponent or within a federation chat room.
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| === Season 60 (2015/10/26) ===
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| * Staff system gets an update and from now on your staff will be given contracts.
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| * At last, HT-Time is abandoned and now you can choose your time zone and finally being able to follow your matches without having to calculate how much time difference there is with where you live and Central Europe.
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| === Season 61 (2016/02/15) ===
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| * Players and reports show levels above "divine".
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| * The mentor system is improved to make the experience even better for mentors and mentees.
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| === Season 62 (2016/06/06) ===
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| * New Live Viewer (also added a chat) provides interesting and updated stats during the match.
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| * With the Team Analysis tool, you can quickly analyse the previous matches of your upcoming opponents.
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| === Season 63 (2016/09/23) ===
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| * Match Replay.
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| * Improvements to youth team, such as the training results available immediately. Scouts no longer present you 17 years old talents in youth academy or 19 year old players in scouting network.
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| === Season 64 (2017/01/16) ===
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| * [[Hattrick International]] is a whole new league, it will crown themselves the first champion in some 6 seasons time.
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| === Season 65 (2017/05/08) ===
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| * Match order page with new visual design and a lot of new functionality (such as being allowed to bench 7 substitutes) to help setting up a good lineup.
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| === Season 66 (2017/08/28) ===
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| * Introduced [[Generation Trophies]], an international competition where managers face off against other teams that got started in around the same time.
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| * New training page was launched, giving better planning tools and more detail about what factors impact training.
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| === Season 67 (2017/12/16) ===
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| * New Framework for [[Specialties]] & [[Special Event]]s: the key points of the change is a new, more transparent way to generate Special Events, big tweaks to the effects of all current specialties, two new unique player roles (Sitting Midfielder & Power Forward) and, finally, the introduction of completely [[Rare_Specialties#Support|new speciality]].
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| * A new individual order: [[Individual_order#Man_Marking|Man Marking]].
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| === Season 68 (2018/04/09) ===
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| ''Nothing happens.''
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| === Season 69 (2018/07/30) ===
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| * New leagues added to Hattrick for the first time in 7 years! The island nations of [[Comoros|Comores]], [[Curaçao]], [[Guam]], [[Sri Lanka]] and [[São Tomé e Príncipe]].
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| * Updates to Transfer compare, Transfer hotlists, the Team of the Week.
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| * Instant matches were introduced.
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| === 2019 (Season 70, 71, 72) ===
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| * New leagues added: [[Ethiopia]] and [[DR Congo|Congo]] joining Hattrick in season 73.
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| === 2020 (Season 73, 74, 75) ===
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| * Managers who want a more realistic-looking can now select a new set of faces for their players.
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| == External Links ==
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| * [https://www.hattrick.org/en/Help/History.aspx Official Hattrick History]
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| * [https://www.hattrick.org/en/HT15/ Anniversary page about our first 15 years]<!--
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