Election
An election in Hattrick is a democratic vote to decide who will be the next National Trainer or U-20 Coach for a country.
The NT coach and U-20 NT coach are elected every two seasons by the users of the country the team is from; the senior squad election is staggered to happen on different seasons than the U-20 squad elections. The manager stays in function, under normal circumstances, for two seasons after which new elections are held to elect a new national coach.
Rules
Every sixteen weeks (one season), the election's campaign starts the day after a World Cup final (usually at 7:00 AM Hattrick Time) and lasts for a week. Elections happen the last week of a season, though sometimes the speeches are released before the voting has begun. Users vote for candidates in their own country. The vast majority of candidates open an election thread in their national conference, usually with the header [NT] or [U20].
In any election, the candidate coach can be every user in the HT world, and he don't need to have the same nationality of the NT. Though the majority of managers are, no country has to elect a manager from their own country. The users can vote for every candidate, unless they have declined already. No vote is final, and can be changed up until the last minute before the polls close (usually 7h AM HT-Time). Elections occur almost immediately after the World Cup has ended. Elected managers serve for thirty-two weeks as the manager of either the national team or U-20 team.
The elected as coach cannot be a coach of two national teams or two U-20 teams at the same time (in this case he has to choose one country and decline the other mandates).
For the duration of his office, the current U-20 national coach has also access to the national coaches' conference.
