Hattrick is an online football manager game where you take the role of a manager on a mission to take your club to the top of the league system! You are in charge of all aspects of club management: Buying and selling players on the transfer market, deciding what skills to train on the practice field, preparing a tactical plan for each match your team will play in your national league and cup, such as USA and US Open Cup.

When your match kicks off, your match will be simulated by our system and you can follow the action in our live commentary viewer, and meanwhile chat with your opposing manager! If you prefer, you can watch and analyse the match afterwards instead.

Hattrick is above all a strategy game where you have to plan for the long term. Should you invest in better youth facilities or spend the money to buy an ageing star player that can increase your team performance in the short term? Should you promote talented defenders or attackers in your youth academy?

Choose well, your teenage talents may well be the stars of the teams many seasons from now, maybe even the next Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or Kylian Mbappé of the Hattrick universe!

A big part of the excitement is that it is a multiplayer experience - the teams you face are managed by other humans, who will try to outsmart you. There is a rich community that you can dive into to learn all about the best ways to train, set up your team tactics and improve your club financially.

Your star players can even be picked for international duty, playing for the USA national team! Every season, Hattrick organises a World Cup, either for senior teams or the U21 squads. The current champions of the Hattrick World Cup are Argentina, lets hear it for them!

If you become a great manager yourself, you can stand in the elections to run the national team and be elected into the office by your fellow online managers. At the moment, there are 149 national leagues in Hattrick, and you can be a candidate for any of them, even if your own team is in another league.

In Hattrick, there is always something to do, whether it is to hang out in the forums to talk about Hattrick or general football news, or to try to find bargains on the transfer market during silly season.

But it is important to know that Hattrick is also a game that you can always play at your own pace. If you spend 30 minutes a week to set your match orders and update the training plans of your team, you will be able to compete and perform well in the main competitions - as long as you make smart decisions.

Unlike many other games, you don’t need to log in every day to collect bonuses or gain in-game currency. There is no way to buy in-game advantages in Hattrick. You can instead become a Hattrick Supporter, which gives you a lot of features designed to make the game more fun and interesting, but which includes no actual in-game advantages.

Hattrick is the original online football manager game, and we have been online since 1997. The founders are still active and are still committed to offering Hattrick as a free football game.

We feel that Hattrick brings together the best from the traditional computer-based soccer manager game, such as the Football Manager series, but in a more exciting way as you always play against real people.

It also includes aspects of fantasy football games and from console football games such as FIFA Ultimate Team, where you collect and build football squads either to play against other users or to collect trophies and achievements.

We bid you all very welcome to Hattrick - the best free football strategy game out there! It is totally free to sign up, no downloads are required and you also have access to amazing free apps for iOS or Android through which you can manage all aspects of the game, making Hattrick also a mobile football game.

But beware, Hattrick can be addictive - many of our users have played for 10 years or more and are still going strong.