The Global season (g.s.) counter is the number of seasons that have passed since the first season of Hattrick's history. 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.
Global seasons are counted starting from Sweden first season, the only active league in the game since its beginning.
As part of Hattrick's initial expansion, even if younger than Sweden, other 9 countries share the global season count as well, although they are not as old as Sweden. They are England, Germany, Italy, France, Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Argentina and USA.
After the creation of these leagues, all other leagues have been assigned their own season numbers starting from 1.
Note that:
the date shown below "in brackets" corresponds to the "first day of the g.s.;
the first day of a g.s. 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.
Splash image circa 2011 (source: hattrick.org login page)
Season 2
(23 Nov. 1997)
Features
HT 2! A new and dynamic Hattrick woke up after a long break due to re-coding and a move to the portal passagen.se.
A new type of transfer system was implemented (before you could bid on any player and if the owner accepted the offer the transfer was made).
News
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 off-season.
The first national team game ever was played. Sweden – Denmark 1-2. The Danish team were a clone of the Swedish player wise.
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.
The grade system was changed the week after Per Emilsson was declared "saint" ! Added other stars after the maximum of 5.
The new grading system was; 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.
The community was moved from passagen.se to Delphi forums.
HTSCB, the first external site with automatic generated statistic, is created.
2001: Bob "the beloved" is born
Season 10
(04 June 2000)
Features
Hattrick’s nostalgic look was buried. The classic design began to reign.
Season 11
(05 Oct. 2000)
Features
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.
At this time the game had a capacity of roughly 12 000 users.
World
Hattrick added more nations beyond Sweden: England, Germany, Italia, Spain (which will become Mexico the next season), France, Argentina and USA. Users who had previously played in Sweden and new users alike filled these nations' new leagues.
2001
Season 12
(2001 Feb. 4)
Features
From the beginning of this season on, teams were placed in the same series as they finished and the promotion/demotion system was established.
2001: The news ticker with latest news in real time is one of the most interesting features of the new supporter's package2001: Together with the supporter add-on, the legendary green kit is born
The developers create the special events, a concept very familiar to every manager today.
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.
World
V. Division in Germany.
Also added the first official national teams, and, with them, international friendlies and World Cups. The first World Cup was held in Japan and Korea at the end of the season, with Sweden beating England 4-0 and becoming the first champion.
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. At this time, the game's membership was 800,000 users strong. The growth had made it necessary to add a new pyramid level almost every season and the largest countries, over 60,000 each, had swelled to 12 levels.
Before the league reform, pyramid levels in division 6 and below were all comprised of 1024 leagues. Levels 8 and 9 would now double in size to 2048 leagues, and 10 and below would increase to 4096 leagues.
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.
2006: Arena Designer tool2006: HT-Oxidus (who was simply Oxidus at the time) created a primordial ans successful Kit Designer and published it as a gimmick on a website on his own
Season 30
(2006 Aug. 13)
Features
The staminaskill is changed: stamina levels fall steadily during the season and training is revised.
Old players' skills decline more frequently, in smaller increments, than before.
2007: Hattrick 10th birthday! - from homepage crest2007: Anniversary T-shirt for sale - from Shop
Season 33
(2007 July 15)
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.
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.
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2009: Hattrick stage allow user to test the incoming features before introduction2009: Driven by a completely redesigned site, a lot of new features sprout, such as the group photo for club2009-2010: Another idea inspired by the site's new design: Hatsticks Official Sticker Album combined with three World Cup editions
Season 39
(2009 May 18)
Features
More accurate match rating including the full effect from confidence, confusion and pulling back.
The possibility of managing your team by SMS was removed.
For added security, from now users are able to have a login name different from their nickname.
Season 40
(2009 Sept. 06)
News
Hattrick launched a Facebook application.
Features
Managers can list their favourite teams with a small new feature.
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).
Season 41
(2009 Dec. 28)
Features
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.
2010
Season 42
(2010 April 19)
Features
A new match engine that is not based on 4-4-2 and can handle all formations without having to reposition players.
New regular chances distribution system.
2010: An example of match report
Season 43
(2010 Aug. 09)
Features
Faster training on many skill levels, but also slower on high levels.
End to longer injuries: when a player gets injured, +4 is now the longest the injury will be.
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.
2014: After years of waiting, a long announced new staff system is reality
Season 56
(2014 Aug. 04)
Features
Cup system was redesigned and Divisional Cups were added to let more lower divisions teams enjoy the experience of a meaningful cup run.
Increased the prize money for winning the league and also prizes at earlier stages of the Cup.
Season 57
(2014 Nov. 24)
Features
New mobile web and redesigned iPhone and Android apps.
From now on, Match report showed all chances in the games after they have been played.
Chat with members of series, within match opponents or in a federation.
Season 60
(2015 Oct. 26)
Features
Staff system got an update and contracts from for staff members.
World
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.
2016
Season 61
(2016 Feb. 15)
Features
Players and reports show levels above "divine".
The mentor system is improved to make the experience even better for mentors and mentees.
2016: New Live Viewer
Season 62
(2016 June 06)
Features
New Live Viewer (also added a chat) provides interesting and updated stats during the match.
With the Team Analysis tool, you can quickly analyse the previous matches of your upcoming opponents.
Season 63
(2016 Sept. 23)
Features
Match Replay.
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.
2017
Season 64
(2017 Jan. 16)
World
Hattrick International, a whole new league for supporters! (The first champions will crown themselves in some 6 seasons time).
2017: 20 years of Hattrick! Official crest from login page
Season 65
(2017 May 08)
Features
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.
Season 66
(2017 Aug. 28)
Features
Introduced Generation Trophies, an international competition where managers face off against other teams that got started in around the same time.
New training page was launched, giving better planning tools and more detail about what factors impact training.
Season 67
(2017 Dec. 16)
Features
New thumbwork for Specialties & Special Events: 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 new speciality.
Further information: Global
