Squad & tactics
Pick your starting eleven, formation, mentality and style of play.
Comparison
Hattrick vs Total Eleven
Two browser football managers, one shared idea: build slowly, decide well.
Hattrick is one of the best-known browser football managers, with a long history of competitive leagues and long-term club development. Total Eleven takes inspiration from the same broader idea: build your club, develop your players, make strategic decisions and compete over time. This page is here to help football manager players understand the similarities and the differences.
- Both
- BROWSER
- Both
- LONG TERM
- Total Eleven
- PIXEL ART
- Total Eleven
- FREE
Side by side
Only features that exist in Total Eleven today are described here. Where a comparison would depend on how you play, the table says so instead of inventing a difference.
| Feature | Hattrick | Total Eleven |
|---|---|---|
| Gameplay philosophy | Long-term club building with patient decisions | Long-term club building with patient decisions |
| Match frequency | Scheduled league fixtures | Scheduled league fixtures on a rolling calendar, plus cups, friendlies and a World Cup |
| Player training | Training focus applied to the squad | Intensity set per skill: goalkeeping, tackling, passing, speed, shooting |
| Player progression | Players develop and decline with age | Skills grow toward a potential and decline gradually from around 31 |
| Tactical decisions | Formation and orders before kick-off | Formation, mentality, style of play, captain, set-piece takers and planned substitutions |
| Transfers | Player market between managers | Auctions between clubs, free agents and a scout who searches a chosen region |
| League structure | Tiered league pyramid | Three divisions with promotion, relegation and recorded champions |
| Competition | Against other human managers | Against other managers in your division, with AI clubs filling the rest |
| Time commitment | Flexible, driven by the fixture calendar | Flexible: set your plan, then check back for results |
| Interface | Classic web interface | Pixel-art interface built for desktop and mobile |
| Accessibility | Runs in a browser | Runs in a browser, sign in with Google or email |
| Long-term progression | Clubs grow over many seasons | Stadium, fans, finances, youth academy and a Hall of Fame across seasons |
What Total Eleven actually contains
Training
Set intensity per skill and watch young players grow week after week.
Transfers
Buy, sell and bid in live transfer auctions against other clubs.
Matches
Follow your game live, minute by minute, with real commentary.
Stadium & club
Expand the ground, run matchday shops and grow your fanbase.
Competitions
League seasons across three divisions, cups, friendlies and a World Cup.
Which one should you play?
If you already have a club you have nurtured for years, nothing here asks you to leave it. Total Eleven is a different game in the same family: a place to start a second story, in a smaller and newer world, with a modern interface and the same kind of decisions. Managers who like playing at their own pace tend to settle in quickly.
Related pages
Continue with the Hattrick alternative overview or browse other football management games.
Take charge of a club
Pick your colours, meet your squad and play your first league season.