Hattrick is a browser-based massively multiplayer online football management simulation video game developed in Sweden and launched on 30 August 1997.
As stated by third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, Hattrick is rated as the 360th and 584th most visited website in Italy respectively.
[5] As a preparation for the sale to Zattikka, the developers declared that they would not improve core features of the game for the foreseeable future (for example, postponing the announced new staff system), but instead focus on improving the experience for newer players coming into the game, as well as attracting new members and adding things, such as Hattrick gears, that users can pay for.
In August 2013 the former owner group of Hattrick (which includes HT-Johan and HT-Daniel) reached an agreement with Zattikka to buy back the game.
It has also been used as the basis for a Lund University academic paper, "Time Extraction from Real-time Generated Football Reports",[8] presented at the Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics in Tartu, Estonia in 2007.