Global season

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The global season (g.s.) counts the number of seasons since the number one in Hattrick's history.

A historical banner of the period

As with any other season, the starting day of the next g.s. is calculated by adding an interval of 112 days, which corresponds to the duration of an entire season, to the first day of the previous one.

The global season counter clearly starts from the first season of Sweden, the only league already active in the game from the start. However, as part of initial expansion of Hattrick, other 9 leagues share the global season count as well, although they are not as old as Sweden. These leagues are England, Germany, Italy, France, Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Argentina and USA. They all are at least 11 seasons younger than Sweden and therefore, for example, their season 1 is called season 11.

This counting system created an obvious global confusion which was subsequently resolved. After the creation of these leagues, all other leagues have been assigned their own season numbers starting from 1.

Notable events

A summary of Hattrick's history is shown below following the global season. Note that: the date "in brackets", in european format (dd/mm/yyyy), corresponds to the "first day" of the new g.s.; the first g.s. day is the "Sunday" before round 1 of main cup; the real global season 1 was only 7 weeks long, so it is necessary to use the conventional date of "1 June 1997" to identify mechanically the subsequent seasons and the current one. 1997 Season 1 (30 Aug. 1997) Features Hattrick is born. 16 teams are in Hattrick, all playing 4-4-2 - the only formation available. Two test series are played in 7 rounds. Splash image circa 2011 (source: hattrick.org login page) Season 2 (23 Nov. 1997) Features HT 2! A new and dynamic Hattrick wake up after a long break due to re-coding and a move to the portal passagen.se. The new release allows for a total of 680 teams and adds a few features still available today, such as the transfer list and a germinal league pyramid where teams' position in the series is determined by random selection during the off-season. A new type of transfer system is implemented (previously anyone could bid on any player and the transfer was only made if the owner accepted the offer). News The first international game ever is played. Sweden – Denmark 1-2, even if the Danish team is a clone of the Swedish players.

1998 Season 3 (5 April 1998) Features HT 3. Friendly matches and cup matches. News Zakrock Rooch are the first cup champions. Big problems with the servers during the silly season, Hattrick is down a few weeks! World Hattrick expands to 1704 teams. Division IV is created with 128 series. 1998: Finally new training types beyond General, Stamina and Set Pieces... Season 4 (26 July 1998) Features An expanded set of in-game skill levels is added. Special training features such as training types beyond General, Stamina and Set pieces. News The rating system changes after Juveby IF's player (57216) Per Emilsson is declared saint: Thanks to a new training combination, Per Emilsson goes beyond the roof of 5 * (stars), and becomes the first and only player ever to get the grade of "saint" - a kind of impossible dummy value HT-Björn invented in the unlikely conjecture that it could ever happen. The week after, more levels are added and the new grading system becomes 0, H, HH, HHH, *, **, ***, ****, *****, *****!, *****!! and so on. Season 5 (15 Nov. 1998) Nothing in particular happened this season according to the history books.

1999 Season 6 (14 March 1999) If something extraordinary really happened this season it didn't make it into the history books. Splash image circa 2011 (source: hattrick.org login page) Season 7 (3 July 1999) Features HT 4 with: New tactical options added in addition to 4-4-2 (previously you could only play with “Normal” settings). Individual orders with players reposition based on a 4-4-2 line-up. Season 8 (24 Oct. 1999) News ExtraLives AB is the name of the new company that develops game design. It is established in January 2000 in Stockholm by Björn HT-Bjorn Holmér, Johan HT-Johan Gustavsson and Daniel HT-Daniel Abrahamsson.

2000 Season 9 (13 Feb. 2000) Features Hattrick Central Bureau of Statistics (HTSCB) is the first external site with automatic generated statistic. News The community moves from passagen.se to Delphi forums. 2000: Extralives is established in January 2000: Hattrick’s nostalgic look is buried A clown as portrayed by the artist Beach. The primordial rules stated that a "popular guy" with "solid leadership" could help the team, but no such effect has ever existed in reality. Season 10 (04 June 2000) Features Hattrick’s "nostalgic look" gives way to the new "classic design" that will reign for 8 years. News HT-Johan and HT-Daniel ask the English artist Beach to become the official Hattrick illustrator. Since 2000, Beach has been involved in all of the art pieces we see in the Game (his design/idea are pixel art player faces, avatars, Christmas/Halloween backgrounds, cartoons, icons, etc.). Season 11 (05 Oct. 2000) Features With HT 5 Hattrick is always online and everything happens live. The new match engine brings to the game new remarkable features such as 15 different player skill levels including the current peak level "divine", Specialties, stars system for player performance rating, real time features such as instant transfer processing and live matches (previously matches occurred during downtime each night). World At this time the game reaches roughly 12 000 users. Swedish league is expanded to 10920 teams, which rapidly fills up) and Hattrick world includes now more countries: England, Germany, Italy, Spain (which will become Mexico the next season), France, Argentina and USA. Users who had previously played in Sweden and new users alike fill in the new leagues.

2001 Season 12 (4 Feb. 2001) Features From the beginning of this season on, teams are placed in the same series as they finished and the promotion/demotion system is established. Hattrick Supporter is launched almost close to the season 13 (single price: 24 €). World The English version of the rules are now up. First global conference in English (Swedish is no longer the official language of the game). Spain is renamed to México. New leagues: Netherlands and Norway. 2001: Bob "the beloved" is born 2001: The news ticker with latest news in real time is one of the most interesting features of the new supporter's package 2001: Together with the supporter add-on, the legendary green kit is born Here is a reinterpretation of the kit Season 13 (27 May 2001) Features International transfers are now possible and foreign players will have a 20% higher salary now on. World Welcome to Spain (again), Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, South Korea, India, Ireland, Egypt, Japan, Oceania, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Thailand, Romania, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Finland, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela. Season 14 (16 Sept. 2001) Features An internal conferences system and Hattrick Mobile are added. New features for the Hattrick Supporter service are Match Kit Designer (pixel art version), Press announcements, the Prize shelf and Federations. News Partnership for software with Certified Hattrick Product Providers. World New leagues: Singapore, Malaysia, Iceland, Austria, Belgium (it was België at the time), Switzerland (the first season of many of these countries is called "season 2" due to an error that occurred several times also in 2002 and 2003).

2002 Season 15 (6 Jan. 2002) Features The launch of HT 6, in January 2002, with International friendlies between clubs, Capacity for a 7th (and more) division in each league, The special events, a concept very familiar to every manager today. However, HT6 does not solve the growing economic problems within the game. To boost the in-game economy, which had entered the equivalent of a depression, the developers resort to distributing 250 000 US$ (or the equivalent in each country's currency) to each team. World V. Division in Germany. First official national teams, and, with them, elections and World Cups. The first World Cup is held in Japan and South Korea at the end of the season, with Sweden beating England 4-0 and becoming the first champion. 2002: CHPP applications will have a long hiatus between 2008 and 2013 2002: Friendlies were depicted this way from the first moment and still are today 2010 2008 2006 2002 2002-2010: World Cup Trophy evolution The SMS Tracking advertising banner for many years visible on the right of the main logo Season 16 (28 April 2002) World The first U-20 World Cup is played. New leagues: Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Croatia, Indonesia, Latvia, Hungary, Philippines and Serbia (originally as "Srbija i Crna Gora"); Season 17 (18 Aug. 2002) Features It's now possible to order match and get instant notification via SMS Tracking. World New leagues: Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong. Season 18 (8 Dec. 2002) Features LA- prefix to Language Administrators username with 7 languages already active. World VI. Division established in Spain, Netherlands and Germany. New leagues: Bulgaria, Wales, Israel, Slovenia.

2003 Season 19 (30 March 2003) News A split in management is made when Hattrick is moved into a separate company and entrusted to Hattrick Limited, while ExtraLives employees are only partially devoted to work on the game. World VII. Division in Nederland. Sweden, Switzerland and Netherlands broke through the 10 000 users barrier. 2003: The earliest appearances of Hammo, the guy sleeping careless while the site is down. Just in time for Black Friday! 2003: New remarkable features on live matches Season 20 (20 July 2003) Features HT 6.5 launches the system for coaches recruiting. 4 tactics (pressing, counter-attacks, AiM, AoW) are now available. Conference are language-specific, managers can speak in their native language. World VI. Division established in Italia, Poland and Finland; VII. Division in Switzerland. New leagues: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Lithuania, Pakistan, Slovakia, Vietnam and Ukraine. Season 21 (9 Nov. 2003) Features With HT Live managers can follow up to 10 games as they are played. News For the first time, the Hattrick universe is restored from a backup: Black Friday happens before round 3 on November 28th, 2003. World VI. Division in Chile, France, Israel, Austria; VII. Division in Argentina, Belgium, Germany and Spain. New leagues: Morocco, Bolivia, Ecuador, Faroe Islands, Nigeria and Paraguay;

2004 Season 22 (29 Feb. 2004) Features Total Skill Index as official measure of a player's abilities. News A quarter of a million users. World New leagues: Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Costa Rica, Luxembourg, Iran, Dominican Republic, Cyprus and United Arab Emirates. 2004 circa: The use of HT credits via SMS prepares the path to Hattrick Gears 2004: Hattrick Clubhouse challenges (but is beaten) HT-Arena, at that time the best external application to publish a club home page Season 23 (20 June 2004) Features Official premium add-on Hattrick Clubhouse. World VIII. Division in Germany. New leagues: Northern Ireland, Belarus, FYR Macedonia, Panama, Kenya and Jamaica. Season 24 (10 Oct. 2004) World IX. Division in Germany. Welcome to El Salvador, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Moldova and Albania.

2005 Season 25 (30 Jan. 2005) Features Two new training types: Through passes and Defensive positions. World Added Jordan, Andorra, Georgia and Guatemala. 2005: With the License Challenge newbies are no longer left to wander alone in their first few weeks 2005: While the game is celebrating the 500 000th user, Hattrick Wiki is born in November 2005 Season 26 (22 May 2005) News Half a million users! World X. Division in Germany. Hello Suriname, Nicaragua, Trinidad & Tobago and Kazakhstan. Season 27 (11 Sept. 2005) Features Hattrick Manager License Challenge, a tutorial for newbies on the site. Supporters enjoyed the Arena Viewer, a designer tool. New training type: Wing attacks. World VII. Division in England; XI. Division in Germany. New leagues: Algeria, Armenia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Mongolia and Senegal.

2006 Season 28 (01 Jan. 2006) Features League and Team Ranking. News First edition of Hattrick Masters. News 750 000 users! World New leagues: Bahrain, Barbados, Cape Verde and Ivory Coast. 2006: First HT Masters Final Season 29 (23 April 2006) Features Match Kit Designer allowed supporters to make a home and away shirt. Hall of Fame for clubs. Announced more than a season in advance, the league reform was completed during the off-season, in April. Following this restructuring, all bot teams at that time were relegated to the bottom division, replacing them by promoting extra teams from lower divisions. The reform was intended to solve the problem of league pyramid capacity after the unexpected surge in registrations. The growth had made it necessary to add a new division (consisting of 1024 series) almost every season and the largest countries, over 60 000 each, had swelled to a 12 levels pyramid. Divisions 8 and 9 would now double in size to 2048 series, and 10 and below would increase to 4096 series. News 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 also season 21 events). Intel became Hattrick's official technical partner. World Iraq and Azerbaijan are the new leagues. 2006: Arena Designer tool 2006: HT-Oxidus (who was simply Oxidus at the time) created a primordial and successful new edition of Kit Designer and published it as a gimmick on a website on his own 2007: For a long time, youth academy players were displayed in black and white Season 30 (13 Aug. 2006) Features Old players' skills decline more frequently, in smaller increments, than before. The non-existent skill denomination is added. World New leagues: Kuwait, Angola, Bangladesh, Montenegro; Srbija i Crna Gora is renamed into Srbija. Season 31 (03 Dec. 2006) Features Achievements are added (and passed off as an alternative career opportunity). World New leagues: Yemen and Oman (it was "Uman" at the time).

2007 Season 32 (25 March 2007) Features Youth academies. Changes to stamina skill: levels fall steadily during the season and training is revised. 2007: Hattrick 10th birthday! - from homepage crest 2007: Anniversary T-shirt from Shop Season 33 (15 July 2007) Features Player birthdays are individual. Previously 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. World League extensions up to 10 levels: Poland and Portugal. New leagues: Ghana, Mozambique, Cambodia and Brunei (initially called "Negara Brunei Darussalam"). Season 34 (04 Nov. 2007) World "FYR Macedonia" renamed to "Makedonija". New leagues: Benin and Syria.

2008 Season 35 (24 Feb. 2008) Features Planned substitutions (without conditional part). The minute based training is introduced for the regular matches. fan expectations for a match and the season. World New leagues: Qatar and Tanzania. 2008: Match of the season, the board game version of Hattrick, arrives to the shop 2008: New Faces! ...are visible only to supporters Season 36 (15 June 2008) World League extensions up to 11 levels: Italia New leagues: Republic of Uganda and Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa. Season 37 (05 Oct. 2008) Features The new design was launched (with dotnetification of the site). New avatar's design for managers (later visible for everyone). Indirect free kicks available as new match feature. Goalkeepers need Set Pieces to save free kicks, but can no longer be your set pieces taker. New easy way to find a friendly with the friendly pool. Play creatively tactic was made more efficient.

2009 Season 38 (25 Jan. 2009) Features Conditional substitutions are added to planned ones. Supporters can draw their own avatars. Long shot tactics. Head to head for supporters (later free for everyone). Transfer market regulation; you can't transfer list a player more times than he has played games for your team. Squad limit of 50 players. News Hattrick Stage opens for a limited number of signup: approximately 5000 users access to the game test environment. 2009: Hattrick stage allow user to test the incoming features before introduction 2009: Immediately after release of Avatars, many managers argued that only male version exist. A few weeks later, lady avatar are also introduced for female users 2009-2010: Another idea inspired by the site's new design: Hatsticks Official Sticker Album combined with three World Cup editions Season 39 (18 May 2009) Features More accurate match rating including the full effect from confidence, confusion and pulling back. The team confidence effect is lowered. A new HT-Live with Re-Live. The possibility of managing clubs by SMS is abandoned. For security reasons, from now on users have a login name different from their nickname. Season 40 (06 Sept. 2009) Features 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). Managers can list their favorite teams with a small new feature. News A Facebook official application. Season 41 (28 Dec. 2009) Features With a major match engine tweak, 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. The tweak also enables a better handling of the counterattack and pressing tactics.

2010 Season 42 (19 April 2010) Features A completely new match engine that is not based on 4-4-2 and can handle all formations without having to reposition players. The new regular chances distribution system is integrated. Chance to get a special event is less dependent on midfield (possession) than before. News m.hattrick.org, the mobile site only for smartphones. 2010: An example of match report 2010: Driven by a completely redesigned site, a lot of new features sprout, such as the group photo for club Season 43 (09 Aug. 2010) Features Faster training on many skill levels, but also slower on high levels. Staff limit to 30 members in total or no more than 10 of the same kind. Goalkeeping coaches have been merged with assistant coaches, and accountants have been removed. End to longer injuries: when a player stops, +4 is now the longest injury time he will get. Season 44 (29 Nov. 2010) Features General (form) training type is removed. Team Photo view for squads.

2011 Season 45 (21 March 2011) Features My Office is the new starting page (or home page) of the website. News Hattrick United is a new home for all managers' blogs. World Cameroon, Uzbekistan, Cuba and Palestine are new members of the Hattrick family, now grown to 128 Countries! 2011: New My office with "Secretary" reports, "Hattrick announces" communications and "What's going on?" calendar 2011: Hattrick Open independent website hosts the beta version of the tournament system Season 46 (11 July 2011) Features Letting two players swap positions on the pitch also becomes possible. All users get access to the basic training report. News Hattrick Open, an independent website, allows everyone to use the game engine for private tournaments. Season 47 (31 Oct. 2011) Features Match order page is improved with a rating predictor. Hattrick Gears, a collection of pay-per-use small features. News New statistics available after closing the old Alltid.org site down.

2012 Season 48 (20 Feb. 2012) Features With loyalty players who stay on the same team for a long time perform better. A crusade against traders? Tournaments available directly on website after closing the Hattrick Open site down. News Hattrick joins Zattika. 2012: Tournaments, a new and apart from leagues alternative competition system Season 49 (11 June 2012) Features New Hattrick Manager License Challenge. Recruiters can now invite people they know to a new career as Hattrick managers. Season 50 (01 Oct. 2012) Features Autobidding for transfer market.

2013 Season 51 (21 Jan. 2013) Features HT Supporter has now three different packages and prices (Silver, Gold, Platinum). Diamond will be later introduced. Only Supporter and Credits in shop, and not any physical products such as t-shirts and hoodies. News Offerwalls made possibile to earn reward points to get Supporter and Credits without having to spend real life money. 2013: Hattrick Supporter is now Platinum, Gold and Silver 2013: In a ladder your goal is to reach the highest rung and become the "King of the Hill" and then stay there for as long as you can Season 52 (13 May 2013) Features Additional club registration opens for Supporter Platinum. An alternative competition with a faster pace for those who want more action: Ladders Season 53 (02 Sept. 2013) Features The community in the anniversary vote requested and gets to dismantle the Golden Goal rule. Youth teams will no longer have a week off during the senior teams' season break. News Zattika sells Hattrick back to the old owners. Season 54 (23 Dec. 2013) Features CHPP applications are allowed again. New Ladders for Federation's tournaments.

2014 Season 55 (14 April 2014) Features The new staff system. Financial Director is back. Injury history on player's page. More play-offs and play-outs added in the lower divisions to make more matches matter for a longer period during the season. Manager Network, a new way to keep track of the teams and managers users care about. News Training for all at the end of the season thanks to the introduction of weekend friendlies (no more extra benefits for teams playing the qualifiers). World Supporters can now play in more than one league at a time, with no limitation to their own national league. 2014: After years of waiting, the long announced new staff system is reality 2014: In the injury history page, the duration and the specific part of the body affected by the injuries are recorded (and the type of injury also has a graphic rendering from 2020 onwards) Season 56 (04 Aug. 2014) Features Cup system is redesigned and Divisional Cups are added to let more lower divisions teams enjoy the experience of a meaningful cup run. Prize money for winning the league is increased and also prizes at earlier stages of the Cup. Season 57 (24 Nov. 2014) Features New official Hattrick mentoring system.

2015 Season 58 (16 March 2015) Features Confidence effects are lowered. The training penalty for walkover is removed. News New mobile web and redesigned iPhone and Android apps. The Supporter Week Trophy is an official tournament for supporters only with the grand prize of a lifetime "Hattrick Supporter Diamond". 2014: After cup system reform, at least three cup matches per season are guaranteed to everyone Season 59 (06 July 2015) Features From now on, match report shows all chances in the games after they have been played. Chat with members of series, within match opponents or in a federation. Season 60 (26 Oct. 2015) Features Staff system update with contracts for staff members. World At last, HT-Time is abandoned. Managers can choose the time zone and finally be able to follow matches without having to calculate how much time difference there is with where you live and Central Europe.

2016 Season 61 (15 Feb. 2016) Features Players and reports show levels above "divine". 2016: Brand New Live Viewer with a live commentator 2016: Team Analysis, not a success, at least until it was integrated with the match order form Season 62 (06 June 2016) Features New Live Viewer provides interesting and updated stats during the match. It also adds a chat. With the Team Analysis tool, managers can quickly analyze the previous matches of upcoming opponents. Season 63 (23 Sept. 2016) Features Match Replay is a new Hattrick Gears product to simulate a match 20 more times. Improvements to youth team, such as the training results available immediately. Scouts no longer present 17 years old talents in youth academy or 19 year old players in scouting network.

2017 Season 64 (16 Jan. 2017) World Hattrick International, a whole new league for supporters! (The first champions will crown themselves in some 6 seasons time). Hattrick International Generation Trophies 2017: 20 years of Hattrick! Official crest from login page Season 65 (08 May 2017) Features Match order page with new visual design and a lot of new functionality (such as being allowed to bench 7 substitutes) to help managers setting up a good lineup. Season 66 (28 Aug. 2017) Features Generation Trophies, an international competition where managers face off against other teams that got started in around the same time. New training page gives better planning tools and more detail about what factors impact training. Season 67 (2017 Dec. 16) Features Big tweaks to the effects of all current Specialties with the New thumbwork for Special Events the key points of the change is a new, more transparent way to generate Special Events, two new unique player roles are introduced (Sitting Midfielder & Powerful Normal Forward). Introduction of completely new specialty, Support. A new individual order: Man Marking.

2018 Seasons 68, 69, 70 Features Instant matches. Updates to Transfer compare, Transfer hotlists, Team of the Week. World New leagues added to Hattrick for the first time in 7 years! The island nations of Comores, Curaçao, Guam, Sri Lanka and São Tomé e Príncipe. 2018: Team of the Week was an old feature already present on Alltid site before merging with the game

2019 Seasons 71, 72, 73 Features The minimum stamina training allowed has increased from 5% to 10%. New and improved look for series table. New activity rule: all managers that have played Hattrick for more than one year will not lose the club after 7 weeks of inactivity, but only after 14 weeks. With Tryouts supporters can see how a player will perform in the lineup simulator before deciding to add the player to your team. News The match commentator's gives more information during the match. More milestones in memorable moments. Division Battle is a new tournament type. World National Teams welcome training pages and Assistant Coaches. New leagues added: Ethiopia and Congo joining Hattrick in season 72. 2019: National Team's staff finally get an official page after 18 years as secret spies!

2020 Season 74, 75, 76 Features National team scouts and prospects are added too. Power Ratings is the official meter to expresses with a single number the team strength (like old unofficial HatStats, LoddarStats, VnukStats and PStats or HTEV). World New leagues added are Botswana, Madagascar, Belize and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines joining Hattrick in season 75, and Burma, Zambia, Haiti, Puerto Rico and San Marino in season 76. 2020: Welcome to San Marino, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Burma and Zambia

2021 Season 77, 78, 79, 80 Features Managers who want a more realistic-look can now select a new set of faces for their players. World U-21 World Cup 2021: More realistic-look for player's face External Links Official Hattrick History Anniversary page about our first 15 years