League
From Hattrick
A league is the set of divisions belonging to a country.
The decision to create a new league is taken by the Hattrick Team in order to allow all managers from the same spot of the globe to play more closely together and share both the same local forum and the same hall of fame.
Expansion of leagues
- Main article: Division
Each league consists of a certain number of levels, or divisions, that that must be filled users before any further expansion. So, depending on the number of users, it can be easy or time-consuming to reach the top division.
The smallest countries have only three divisions, the largest ones (i.e. Spain, Italy, Germany) reached eleven of them at maximum expansion. It means that a team starting in the bottom division, XI or 11, had to climb 10 levels to get to the top division (i.e. German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A or Spanish Primera division).
There have been some important steps in the history of Hattrick regarding the league expansion:
- Season 2
- 680 teams in Sweden: Allsvenskan, division 1, division 2 and division 3 are created. Note that Sweden is a special case when numbering the league levels; the first level is Allsvenskan, then come Ia to Id, then the "second" divisons IIa to IIh, and so on. The lowest division Sweden has ever reached, the tenth level, was actually called division IX (nine).
| Division | Teams Capacity | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | Roman | |
| 1 | I | 8 |
| 2 | II | 32 |
| 3 | III | 128 |
| 4 | IV | 512 |
| 5 | V | 2048 |
| 6 | VI | 8192 |
| 7 | VII | 8192 |
| 8 | VIII | 16384 |
| 9 | IX | 16384 |
| 10 | X | 32768 |
| 11 | XI | 32768 |
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- Season 15
- V. Division established in Germany
- Season 18
- VI. Division in Spain, Germany and Netherlands.
- Season 19
- VII. Division established in Netherlands.
- Season 20
- VI. Division in Italy, Poland and Finland;
- VII. Division in Swizerland.
- Season 21
- IV. Division in Lithuania, Serbia & Montenegro (^2);
- V. Divison in Colombia, Greece, Ireland, Uruguay;
- VI. Division in Chile, France, Israel, Austria;
- VII. Division in Argentina, België, Germany and Spain.
- Season 27
- VII. Division in England; XI. Division in Germany.
- Season 33
- League extensions:
- Up to IV in Algeria, Andorra, Azərbaycan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Tunisia;
- Up to V in Egypt;
- Up to VI in Hong Kong;
- Up to VII in China;
- Up to VIII in Israel;
- Up to X in Poland and Portugal.
- Season 36
- XI in Italy.
Leagues in Hattrick World
The world in the game is currently made of:
- 139 leagues in as many countries,
- 1 superleague -
Hattrick International.
| G. S. (*) | Date | Nation Code (**). League name (Local name) | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 1997 | 1.
Sweden (Sverige)
|
1 | |||
| 11 | Oct. 2000 | 2.
England (England)
|
3.
Germany (Deutschland)
|
4.
Italy (Italia)
|
5.
France (France)
|
8 |
6.
Mexico (México)
|
7.
Argentina (Argentina)
|
8.
USA (USA)
|
||||
| 12 | Feb. 2001 | 9.
Norway (Norge)
|
10.  n.a. (***).
|
11.
Denmark (Danmark)
|
12.
Finland (Suomi)
|
11 |
| 13. n.a. (***).
| ||||||
| 13 | May 2001 | 14.
Netherlands (Nederland)
|
15.
Oceania (Oceania)
|
16.
Brazil (Brasil)
|
17.
Canada (Canada)
|
35 |
18.
Chile (Chile)
|
19.
Colombia (Colombia)
|
20.
India (India)
|
21.
Republic of Ireland (Ireland)
| |||
22.
Japan (Nippon)
|
23.
Peru (Perú)
|
24.
Poland (Polska)
|
25.
Portugal (Portugal)
| |||
26.
Scotland (Scotland)
|
27.
South Africa (South Africa)
|
28.
Uruguay (Uruguay)
|
29.
Venezuela (Venezuela)
| |||
30.
South Korea (Hanguk)
|
31.
Thailand (Prathet Thai)
|
32.
Türkiye (Turkey)
|
33.
Egypt (Misr)
| |||
34.
China (China)
|
35.
Russia (Rossiya)
|
36.
Spain (España)
|
37.
Romania (România)
| |||
| 14 | Sept. 2001 (^1) | 38.
Iceland (Ísland)
|
39.
Austria (Österreich)
|
40. n.a. (***).
|
41. n.a. (***).
|
41 |
| 42. n.a. (***).
|
43. n.a. (***).
|
44.
Belgium (Belgium)
|
45.
Malaysia (Malaysia)
| |||
46.
Switzerland (Schweiz)
|
47.
Singapore (Singapore)
|
48. n.a. (***).
|
49. n.a. (***).
| |||
| (^1) An error caused these leagues to be created without any teams in it. The leagues were then restarted | ||||||
| 16 | April 2002 | 50.
Greece (Hellas)
|
51.
Hungary (Magyarország)
|
52.
Czech Republic (Česká republika)
|
53.
Latvia (Latvija)
|
50 |
54.
Indonesia (Indonesia)
|
55.
Philippines (Pilipinas)
|
56.
Estonia (Eesti)
|
57.
Serbia (Srbija) (^2)
| |||
| (^2) Originally "Srbija i Crna Gora" and renamed in g.s. 30 after creation of 131. Montenegro (Crna Gora) | 58.
Croatia (Hrvatska)
| |||||
| 17 | Aug. 2002 | 59.
Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
|
60.
Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)
|
61.
Wales (Cymru)
|
62.
Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
|
56 |
63.
Israel (Israel)
|
64.
Slovenia (Slovenija)
|
65. n.a. (***).
|
||||
| 20 | July 2003 | 66.
Lithuania (Lietuva)
|
67.
Slovakia (Slovensko)
|
68.
Ukraine (Ukraina)
|
69.
Bosnia & Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina)
|
62 |
70.
Vietnam (Việt Nam)
|
71.
Pakistan (Pakistan)
|
|||||
| 21 | Nov. 2003 | 72.
Paraguay (Paraguay)
|
73.
Ecuador (Ecuador)
|
74.
Bolivia (Bolivia)
|
75.
Nigeria (Nigeria)
|
68 |
76.
Faroe Islands (Føroyar)
|
77.
Morocco (Al Maghrib)
|
78. n.a. (***).
|
||||
| 22 | March 2004 | 79.
Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia)
|
80.
Tunisia (Tounes)
|
81.
Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
|
82. n.a. (***).
|
76 |
83.
United Arab Emirates (United Arab Emirates)
|
84.
Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg)
|
85.
Iran (Iran)
|
86. n.a. (***).
| |||
| 87. n.a. (***).
|
88.
Dominican Republic (República Dominicana)
|
89.
Cyprus (Cyprus)
|
90. n.a. (***).
| |||
| 23 | June 2004 | 91.
Belarus (Belarus)
|
92. n.a. (***).
|
93.
Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland)
|
94.
Jamaica (Jamaica)
|
82 |
95.
Kenya (Kenya)
|
96.
Panama (Panama)
|
97.
North Makedonija (Severna Makedonija)
|
||||
| 24 | Oct. 2004 | 98.
Albania (Shqiperia)
|
99.
Honduras (Honduras)
|
100.
El Salvador (El Salvador)
|
101.
Malta (Malta)
|
88 |
102.
Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz Republic)
|
103.
Moldova (Moldova)
|
|||||
| 25 | Jan. 2005 | 104.
Georgia (Sakartvelo)
|
105.
Andorra (Andorra)
|
106.
Jordan (Al Urdun)
|
107.
Guatemala (Guatemala)
|
92 |
| 108. n.a. (***).
|
109. n.a. (***).
|
|||||
| 26 | May 2005 | 110.
Trinidad & Tobago (Trinidad & Tobago)
|
111.
Nicaragua (Nicaragua)
|
112.
Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)
|
113.
Suriname (Suriname)
|
96 |
| 114. n.a. (***).
|
115. n.a. (***).
|
116. n.a. (***).
| ||||
| 27 | Sept. 2005 | 117.
Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein)
|
118.
Algeria (Algérie)
|
119.
Mongolia (Mongol Uls)
|
120.
Lebanon (Lubnan)
|
102 |
121.
Senegal (Senegal)
|
122.
Armenia (Hayastan)
|
|||||
| 28 | Jan. 2006 | 123.
Bahrain (Bahrain)
|
124.
Barbados (Barbados)
|
125.
Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
|
126.
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
|
107 |
| 29 | April 2006 | 128.
Iraq (Al Iraq)
|
129.
Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan)
|
109 | ||
| 30 | Aug. 2006 | 130.
Angola (Angola)
|
131.
Montenegro (Crna Gora)
|
132.
Bangladesh (Bangladesh)
|
127.
Kuwait (Al Kuwayt) (^3)
|
112 |
| (^3) Kuwaiti league was created using national code 127 left previously vacant | ||||||
| 31 | Dec. 2006 | 133.
Yemen (Al Yaman)
|
134.
Oman (Oman)
|
114 | ||
| 33 | July 2007 | 135.
Mozambique (Moçambique)
|
136.
Brunei (Brunei)
|
137.
Ghana (Ghana)
|
138.
Kampuchea (Prateh Kampuchea)
|
118 |
| 34 | Nov. 2007 | 139.
Benin (Bénin)
|
140.
Syria (Suriyah)
|
120 | ||
| 35 | Feb. 2008 | 141.
Qatar (Dawlat Qatar)
|
142.
Tanzania (Tanzania)
|
122 | ||
| 36 | June 2008 | 143.
Uganda (Uganda)
|
144.
Maldives (Dhivehi Raajje)
|
124 | ||
| 45 | March 2011 | 145.
Uzbekistan (O'zbekiston)
|
146.
Cameroon (Cameroon)
|
147.
Cuba (Cuba)
|
148.
Palestine (Palestine)
|
128 |
| 64 | Jan. 2017 | 150.(^4) Hattrick International+
|
128+1 | |||
| (^4) Hattrick International has a hidden nation code, so the attribution is uncertain. | ||||||
| 70 | Nov. 2018 | 149.
Sao Tome & Principe (São Tomé e Príncipe)
|
151.
Comoros (Comoros)
|
152.
Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka)
|
153.
Curaçao (Curaçao)
|
133+1 |
154.
Guam (Guam)
|
||||||
| 73 | Nov. 2019 | 155.
DR Congo (RD Congo)
|
156.
Ethiopia (Ītyōṗṗyā)
|
135+1 | ||
| 75 | June 2020 | 157.
Saint Vincent & The Grenadines (Saint Vincent & The Grenadines)
|
158.
Belize (Belize)
|
159.
Madagascar (Madagascar)
|
160.
Botswana (Botswana)
|
139+1 |
Legend:
- * Global season is referred to the first league ever created, the swedish one. It is called global because the same number is shared by leagues create before 2001 (all other leagues were given their own season number starting at 1).
- ** The nation code is an identification number used in the game. Normally each new country added takes the number following the last one used, although in some cases codes have been used for tests or other hidden activities and are no longer available (i.e hidden test league created and then cancelled like New Moon or Middle Earth).
- *** n.a. is for a national code not active, unused or not accessible - This is where there are jumps in the numbering.
- (^1) An error caused these leagues to be created without any teams in it. The leagues were then restarted and what appears today as season 2 is in fact season 1, season 3 is season 2, etc. (For example, the displayed season 36 was the 35th season played).
- (^2) Originally created as "Srbija i Crna Gora" and then renamed "Serbia" in global season 30 after creation of a separeted lague for 131. Montenegro (Crna Gora).
- (^3) Kuwaiti league was created in season 30 using national code 127 left previously vacant in seasons 28 and 29.
- (^4) Hattrick International has a hidden nation code, so the attribution is uncertain.
See Also
- Comments by the HTs about the league system on the forum.
