Fantasy Football World Cup 2022
Well, we never thought we’d be writing a World Cup article in November… never mind one about a World Cup in Qatar, but hey, money speaks, evidently. Whatever your feelings about this one it is here and it is happening so we may as well embrace it. After all… #footballscominghome
The good (?) people at FIFA, or to give them their new name FIFA+, have launched a fantasy game and as you’d expect we are all over it. The following is a run down of where to find it, how to play it, the fixtures, the deadlines and most importantly how you can join in the fun in the FF247 Regs League.
After that this article will act as a month long World Cup version of Live Match Chat. Much like the Champions League one does. In fact the whole game is very Champions League-like. If you have played that you will get the gist of this one pretty quickly, if not do not worry as we shall attempt to talk you through the basics below. Failing that just pop a comment in the chat below and we shall answer any query for you, regardless of how daft!
BTW… it’s coming home 
The Game Itself
You can access the game here – https://play.fifa.com/fantasy-classic/
The FF247 Regs League
We are only running the one league and there is only one way to enter it…
Please email us on contact@fantasyfootball247.co.uk if you want the code for this one.
You must include your FF247 username and your FIFA+ Fantasy World Cup team name in the email, or we will simply ignore it.
The purpose of this one is that it is for folk who are on the FF247 forum regularly and taking part in the regular FF247 WC chat. Please don’t try to join if you aren’t. We will know, and we will boot you out.
The Regs Standings
This will be updated as we go along, as per the CL ones.
The Basics
You can access all of the rules themselves here but the main points are as follows…
Scoring
The scoring is similar to FPL only that keepers get 9 for scoring a goal (may as well be 25?!), defenders 7 and mids and fwds 5 each. Mids get 1 point extra for both 2 key passes and for every 3 tackles. Fwds get 1 point for every 2 shots on target.
Chips aka Boosters
Worth noting as there are a couple of odd ones…
‘Matchdays’
The stages are split into 7 different ‘matchdays’…
Players per team
As per CL this increases through the stages…
Amount of transfers
Likewise there are different stages to this…
Captain and Sub Rules
Those who are familiar with CL rules can skip this bit but for those who aren’t then this is super important. Basically you can keep changing your Captain Armband to another player who is yet to play, within each Matchday, until you land on one that you are happy with, as long as you do it before the next players game begins. Likewise with subs you can bring one in to replace a player who has played, but has perhaps not done as well as you would have liked. It’s basically rolling the dice until you are happy to stick.
MD5 Fixtures – QF’s (and possible SF’s)
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Fittingly their logo seems to be a noose. According to our lawyers I wasn’t allowed to open with this line this on the article…. Can’t stop me in the comments though can you!
Anyway, the main point here is:
The FF247 Regs League
We are only running the one league and there is only one way to enter it…
Please email us on contact@fantasyfootball247.co.uk if you want the code for this one.
You must include your FF247 username and your FIFA+ Fantasy World Cup team name in the email, or we will simply ignore it.
The purpose of this one is that it is for folk who are on the FF247 forum regularly and taking part in the regular FF247 WC chat. Please don’t try to join if you aren’t. We will know, and we will boot you out.
Brilliant! Always keen on a bit of summer fun! Oh wait… Anyway, one last FPL gw and then onto this one. Should be fun as we celebrate Portugal winning the World Cup!
NICE! I’m in. My team Japan is in the group of death (w/ Germany and Spain) but they have an upset or two in them so I remain hopeful. Plus 1-week to get to Qatar and prepare before the first game, could be anyone’s WC, no?!
Great, not sure if i will watch the World Cup this time, since my team isn’t qualified i might just skip it.
One curiosity which you didn’t note is the you can make transfers within a game week. So for example you pick Mbappe (who plays on day 2 of the GW) and he gets injured on the morning before the game. Even though the GW has already started and day 1 has been played, you could transfer out Mbappe and bring in a different player who hasn’t already played (eg Neymar) and still get his points in the same GW
Does this transfer during the GW count as part of the 2 transfers before each round in group stage?.
And is it a – 4 as usual for extra transfers?
He means, moving players around. If the score is not good put him on the bench and bring someone else in. Exactly like in Fantasy Bundes League.
A hit cost -3 points.
No I mean making a transfer not a sub!. If you make a transfer and neither player has not yet played during the week the transfer can (at your choice) become effective immediately. And yes, if you make a transfer once GW1 has started then it is one of your two GW2 transfers.
9 points for a keeper goal. Where is Jose Chilavert when you need him!
Those were the days :-D!