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.
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1997
Season 1
(30 Aug. 1997)
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- 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.
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Season 2
(23 Nov. 1997)
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- 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.
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1998
Season 3
(5 April 1998)
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- 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.
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1998: Finally new training types beyond General, Stamina and Set Pieces...
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Season 4
(26 July 1998)
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- 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.
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Season 5
(15 Nov. 1998)
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Nothing in particular happened this season according to the history books.
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1999
Season 6
(14 March 1999)
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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
(3 July 1999)
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- 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.
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Season 8
(24 Oct. 1999)
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- 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.
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2000
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2000: Extralives is established in January
2000: Hattrick’s nostalgic look is buried
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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.
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Season 10
(04 June 2000)
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- 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.).
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Season 11
(05 Oct. 2000)
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- 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.
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2001
Season 12
(4 Feb. 2001)
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- 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.
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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
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Season 13
(27 May 2001)
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- 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.
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2002
Season 15
(6 Jan. 2002)
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- 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.
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2002: CHPP applications will have a long hiatus between 2008 and 2013
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2002: Friendlies were depicted this way from the first moment and still are today
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2010
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2008
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2006
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2002
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2002-2010: World Cup Trophy evolution
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The SMS Tracking advertising banner for many years visible on the right of the main logo
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Season 17
(18 Aug. 2002)
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- Features
- It's now possible to order match and get instant notification via SMS Tracking.
- World
- New leagues: Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong.
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Season 18
(8 Dec. 2002)
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- 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.
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2003
Season 19
(30 March 2003)
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- 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.
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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
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Season 20
(20 July 2003)
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- 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.
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Season 21
(9 Nov. 2003)
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- 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;
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2004
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2004 circa: The use of HT credits via SMS prepares the path to Hattrick Gears
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2004: Hattrick Clubhouse challenges (but is beaten) HT-Arena, at that time the best external application to publish a club home page
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2005
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2005: With the License Challenge newbies are no longer left to wander alone in their first few weeks
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2005: While the game is celebrating the 500 000th user, Hattrick Wiki is born in November 2005
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2006
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2006: First HT Masters Final
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Season 29
(23 April 2006)
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- 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.
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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
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Season 30
(13 Aug. 2006)
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- 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.
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Season 31
(03 Dec. 2006)
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- Features
- Achievements are added (and passed off as an alternative career opportunity).
- World
- New leagues: Yemen and Oman (it was "Uman" at the time).
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2007
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2007: Hattrick 10th birthday! - from homepage crest
2007: Anniversary T-shirt from Shop
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Season 33
(15 July 2007)
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- 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").
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Season 34
(04 Nov. 2007)
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- World
- "FYR Macedonia" renamed to "Makedonija".
- New leagues: Benin and Syria.
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2008
Season 35
(24 Feb. 2008)
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- 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.
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2008: Match of the season, the board game version of Hattrick, arrives to the shop
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2008: New Faces! ...are visible only to supporters
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2009
Season 38
(25 Jan. 2009)
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- 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.
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2009: Hattrick stage allow user to test the incoming features before introduction
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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
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2009-2010: Another idea inspired by the site's new design: Hatsticks Official Sticker Album combined with three World Cup editions
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Season 39
(18 May 2009)
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- 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.
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Season 40
(06 Sept. 2009)
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- 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.
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Season 41
(28 Dec. 2009)
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- 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.
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2010
Season 42
(19 April 2010)
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- 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.
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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
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Season 43
(09 Aug. 2010)
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- 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.
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Season 44
(29 Nov. 2010)
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- Features
- General (form) training type is removed.
- Team Photo view for squads.
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2011
Season 45
(21 March 2011)
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- 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!
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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
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Season 46
(11 July 2011)
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- 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.
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Season 47
(31 Oct. 2011)
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- 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.
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2012
Season 48
(20 Feb. 2012)
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- 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.
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2012: Tournaments, a new and apart from leagues alternative competition system
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Season 50
(01 Oct. 2012)
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- Features
- Autobidding for transfer market.
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2013
Season 51
(21 Jan. 2013)
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- 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.
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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
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Season 52
(13 May 2013)
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- Features
- Additional club registration opens for Supporter Platinum.
- An alternative competition with a faster pace for those who want more action: Ladders
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Season 53
(02 Sept. 2013)
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- 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.
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Season 54
(23 Dec. 2013)
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- Features
- CHPP applications are allowed again.
- New Ladders for Federation's tournaments.
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2015
Season 58
(16 March 2015)
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- 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".
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2014: After cup system reform, at least three cup matches per season are guaranteed to everyone
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Season 59
(06 July 2015)
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- 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.
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Season 60
(26 Oct. 2015)
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- 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.
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2016
Season 61
(15 Feb. 2016)
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- Features
- Players and reports show levels above "divine".
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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
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Season 62
(06 June 2016)
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- 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.
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Season 63
(23 Sept. 2016)
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- 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.
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2017
Season 64
(16 Jan. 2017)
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- World
- Hattrick International, a whole new league for supporters! (The first champions will crown themselves in some 6 seasons time).
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2017: 20 years of Hattrick! Official crest from login page
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Season 65
(08 May 2017)
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- 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.
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Season 66
(28 Aug. 2017)
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- 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.
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Season 67
(2017 Dec. 16)
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- Features
- Big tweaks to the effects of all current Specialties with the New thumbwork for Special Events
- Introduction of completely new specialty, Support.
- A new individual order: Man Marking.
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2018
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2018: Team of the Week was an old feature already present on Alltid site before merging with the game
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2019
Seasons 71, 72, 73
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- 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.
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2019: National Team's staff finally get an official page after 18 years as secret spies!
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2020
Season 74, 75, 76
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- 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.
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2020: Welcome to San Marino, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Burma and Zambia
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2021
Season 77, 78, 79, 80
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- Features
- Managers who want a more realistic-look can now select a new set of faces for their players.
- World
- U-21 World Cup
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2021: More realistic-look for player's face
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External Links
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