Here I have summed some of the areas within which must Newbies makes mistakes in their first couple of weeks in Hattrick. This is not a complete guide, but aims at helping newbies through their first weeks.


Training is one of the central elements of Hattrick: For one, your players get better, secondly, training is one of the major sources of income. Choose one of the chains: Defence, midfield, attack, wings, or keepers.

Make the choice based on where you have some trainable players, i.e. 17-18-19 years old and at least passable in their primary skill (defence, playmaking, winger, scoring or goaltending), buy more talents for this chain, so that you utilize all the training positions. Only players who plays in this position gets training. E.g. you have chosen defence training, and plays a 5-4-1-formation = your 3 central defenders and your 2 wingbacks gets training and nobody else.

Between seasons it pays off to switch training from one of the main areas to stamina. Stamina training is given to all players in the trup, and not just those who play; and there is no weekend game in the between season.

Training is carried out each Friday (in Denmark, check your local league). If you switch training type, the build-up training is still in effect, even though there is no visual change in the player.

Check the rules and some of the help pages that exist around Hattrick. E.g.: Hattrix. There is a lot of good articles. I also recommend some of the other guides that are available through my homepage Here.

Pros and cons of the 5 training types




The numbers in parentheses indicate the lengt of training a 17 year old one level with a solid coach and 9 asisstants.

* It is almost a necessity to play with 5 defenders or 3 attackers, which will weaken the very important midfield
Read further on which formation to play with which training here: Formations

Five issues regarding training:
1. Training is definitely most efficient when long term objectives are pursued. Long term meaning over several seasons. Your players will not improve if you only pursue short term objectives. That is why it is important, that you define your goals and objectives for the team.

2. Your training should be optimised according to the objectives. For example: Most people play a 3-5-2 formation, because of the importance of midfield in Hattrick. Therefore, many people train playmaking, which allows them to train the maximum amount of players (6+4 half (i.e. wings)). If you want to play defensive line-ups, training of defenders is beneficial, and a 3-4-3 is a good formation for training attackers

3. Training of talents is one of the best ways of making money in Hattrick. Talents are 17 years old at best, but at least teenagers. When they get older, the effect of the training diminishes. That is why many managers have one chain of youngster (the training chain) and older and more experienced players in the rest. The talents are trained to a certain level and sold, the money used for new talents and reinforcements to the other chains.

4. If you want to optimise you team here and now (e.g. to gain promotion), I'll give you two recommendations: Train your midfielders to excellent stamina. This improves your midfield a lot in a short time. Downside is that the form of your players may (most likely) drop. Buy a better keeper. His influence on the defence ratings is very large. A passable keeper will cost you somewhere between 50.000€ to 70.000€

5. Be patient. Your 'peasants' will not become Laudrup-clones overnight or even over a couple of seasons!


This message was edited by soccer_momo on 26-Jun-2006 @ 5:17 PM

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Disclaimer: I've had reports of players being injured for longer or shorter than the given min and max values given below.

limped off the field and was replaced
Average injury length for this statement is 1.22 weeks. However, this only accounts for 7.26% of the injuries. No injuries over 2 weeks yet.

had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury]
Average injury length for this statement is 1.46 weeks. By far the most common injury, with 28.23% of the 124 surveyed. Only 3 injuries were over 2 weeks in duration, with the max injury being only 3 weeks. Vast majority of injuries were listed as 1, but the players were already bruised and playing/training.

left the field because of a nasty blow to the shin
Average injury length for this statemtent is 1.71 weeks. 11.29% of the injuries used this statement. Majority of injuries were only 2 weeks, with just one lasting 3 weeks.

These first 3 statements accounted for almost half of all the injuries found.

couldn´t continue playing due to the rough treatment
Things start picking up as this statement averages 2.05 weeks. 16.13% of the injuries used this statement. 3 of the injuries were as high as 4 weeks, but several were 1 week in duration. Kind of a mixed pot.

had to be helped off the pitch, unable to finish the game
9.68% of the injuries used this statement, and last an average of 2.5 weeks. Several 1 weekers are in here, but so are 4-5-6 weekers. This is the first statement yet that involves injuries over 4 weeks.

the unlucky victim, couldn´t continue the game
Seems we're kicking it into high gear now, as this statement averages 3.27 weeks. A couple of one weekers in here, but more and more the injuries are 4 weeks or higher. 6 weeks is the highest.

had to be carried off on a stretcher in agony
This is the one I assumed would be the worst, but I was wrong. This statement is very rare, though, with only 4.03% of the 124 injuries using it. Average injury is 3.40 weeks. However, if this hits you, don't expect a walk in the park. None of the injuries have been less then 3 weeks in duration. None have been more then 4 weeks, either.

will have to do without…..for a time due to a bad foot injury
We're really getting to the statements that will make hopes for the season drop in your gut like a lead weight. While only 6.45% of the injuries, they average 3.88 weeks in duration. The range is 3-6 weeks.

being carried off the pitch and replaced
And here's the worst statement. 4.40 weeks injured on average, with the only 7 weeker in the survey. Again, no injury less then 3 weeks with half being 5 weeks or more. Fortunately this one is rare as well, with only 8.06% of the injuries coming in at this level.

This message was edited by soccer_momo on 26-Jun-2006 @ 5:29 PM

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