Hattrick guide, part I: how to start

Hattrick guide: Hattrick is a free online football manager game born in 1997. It has been created for fun from a swedish guy, Bjiorn. Today it counts more than 900.000 active users all around the world.

Hattrick is an amazing game similar to the PC game Football Manager. The difference is that it is completely managed online and it is completely free. The difference between hattrick and the other online games is that supporters (users that pay an annual subscription) have no advantages compared to the others.

If you are ready to start, then follow immediatly these steps. Go on hattrick website and ask for a team. Do it now, because it is not always immeidate the starts of the game. Sometimes they have to face with an impressive number of requests, hence they gradually accept new users. You could receive your team after few days, or a week, or after a couple of hours.

Since this is an online game, the choice of a browser is so important. Thanks to very useful Firefox add-ons it is better to use Mozilla’s browser in order to have a small advantage and to better understand the game.

The three most important plugins can be downloaded here:

* FoxTrick (for further statistics of the game)
* alltid hattrick Statistics (the greatest database of every hattrick player)
* PsicoTSI Terminus Edition (it helps to understand the training progresses)

In following posts we are going to analyze, step by step, the following topics:

* First things to do as new managers
* Lineup and tactics
* Training
* Youth Team
* Finances
* Matches
* Special events
* Staff
* Team Spirit (TS)
* Market and Transfers
* How to make money on hattrick