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)
Cheers for the comments Bigpopz. I like the look of Musiala and he should start without Muller. I agree with Richarli and Turner and I might go Eriksen to Olsen which allows Havertz and Simon to come in. Castagne is expensive but he has been playing as attacking right midfield and then he’s a bargain.
Otieno
Ok
Fair play
Wasn’t aware Muller was out.
Plz rate mine below.
Ta.
Is there anyway to know the starting XI of the teams………these friendlies are making things even more complicated. Its a struggle to even pick-up a GK.
A quick Google and I found this for the opening matches. Obviously not 100% concrete, but I guess it’s a start.
https://bulinews.com/news/15305/predicted-world-cup-lineups-how-teams-line-qatar
GM, try this one. As always, these are just predictions but they are usually accurate, even for EPL.
https://www.rotowire.com/soccer/lineups.php?league=WOC
Thank you Guys……time to start my team. Auto-filled to manual filled
Plz rate.
Thinking of Neymar for 12th man chip match day 1
Thought of Mbappe as your 12th man instead of Neymar? France have an ‘easy’ opener but the next is tricky, despite being World Champions. Brazil have a very easy group.
I love the De Paul pick. Great price!
Be careful though, once you have picked a 12th man you can’t cancel the chip but more importantly, you can’t change him either.
Thx guys
Gunna switch Mbappe to Neymar for the group stages.
Mbappe 12th man chip.
Don’t know anything about him. How good is he?
De Paul that is
De Paul is a mid for Atletico Madrid. Really cheap gateway into the Arg midfield – doubt he’ll score much (or at all!) but will get points for tackles, key passes and clean sheets
I don’t think brazil group is that easy. Serbia and Switzerland are decent teams. These 3 teams were in same group last WC too.
These were the results last time; Brazil are even stronger this time around.
Brazil 2 – 0 Serbia
Brazil 2 – 0 Costa Rica
Brazil 1 – 1 Switzerland
Just a quick update on our league as I’m not sure what you good people can see or can’t see on your end.
Going well in terms of numbers so so should be a competitive league, certainly in terms of regs being in it who we are all familiar with.
One standout though is SilverBullet. I don’t recall seeing that name on the emails unless it was an early one. I suspect it may be Silvers himself but I can’t see any more detail yet. Either way whoever it is why have you got two teams in there?! Which again suggests that it may actually be Silvers….
SilverBullet reveal yourself. Before both your teams get the…. you get the picture
If anyone thinks they have sent an email in requesting the code but haven’t had a response please shout on here as I have responded to all that have been received. Just conscious of spam on either end.
If you say so on here I can try again using your site email address and a different one on my end.
There are 2 teams, I do not see anyone is talking about – Morocco (Dark horse) and Spain (going totally under the radar). What is your opinion about any pick from them?
Today, the way Hakimi played, I do not see any hope for Borna Sosa in the first match. Hakimi was almost like an inward forward. Also, the goal from Ziyech was world-class. Unfortunately, that level of performance we miss from him in EPL.
Good shout
Spain could have an ok route to the finals, but haven’t a clue as to their expected line-up tbh. If they’ve learned to score goals now, they’ll probably go far!
Morocco – tough group (Croatia and Belgium at least). There are better options within better teams. However, they would have great differentials in there (let’s face it, we probably don’t want to have any players from the Bottom 16 clubs, do we?). And Spain, well, don’t know really! Too many options in there.
Morocco is in a tough group. They well do very well to get out of the group with the last WC finalists and 3rd place team in it.
I should really put a team together!
Not like you to be dragged kicking and screaming …
I have at least got an auto pick team