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)
Geez I wish we knew who the Netherlands GK will be
. Some sites say Passer and others Noppert.
Anyone here with some inside knowledge?
Pasveer
Yeah its uncertain. I would avoid for now.
Tbh I thought Bijlow was the most likely one. Maybe just pick another country there
Bees, Dane and Reg
Pasveer is predicted to start in almost by everyone
Thanks Ivan. He looks to be the best 4.5 GK but maybe I should look elsewhere
Bees, this is my latest draft. Went cheap and cheerful with the GKs.
Taking a punt with Billingham, think he will be the dark horse of the tournament.
Of course all that can change several times before kickoff
+1, all I’ve seen is ‘Pasveer’.
Morning all.
Just put this together. Any good?
No Messi
I’ve read that Lukaku is an injury doubt for the first couple of games.
Can you find an extra million to get Messi instead of Lukaku? Maybe Amallah to Khazri of Tunisia instead?
Hi everyone, my contribution. Vini Junior as 12th man probably.
You need to make sure your players with games later in the Matchday are on your bench, so you can manually sub them in for any of the earlier playing players who blank. So I think you need to but your Belgians on the bench for now and field Khoukhi and Al-Hassan in your starting XI.
Both your GK play on the same day, which means you’ll only have a small window to manually sub Redmayne in if Schmeichel blanks.That might be fine if you know you’ll be able to do that, but if not perhaps pick one keeper who plays on a different day.
Thanks mate but I’m way down under so won’t be able to tinker between games. Gotta have to trust the players..
Redmayne is a bit of a joke pick anyway, he’ll only play if we need a penalty save in the 3rd game
Go for e.g. AlSheeb. The first game could easily end 0-0 and if not you have plenty of time to sub Schmeichel in
Runours are Benzema isn’t fit. Would highly recommend avoiding him for the time being! Go for Mbappe and maybe upgrade Trossard.
Thanks everyone, good stuff I’ll do a minor surgery. Thing about KBZ I feel he’s more suited to score against us than Mbappe, but it’ll probably be a massacre everywhichway.
Seems like he’s completely out.. I didn’t even check, assumed he’d be raring to play in his last WC, what a blow.
Anyone playing fantasy world cup Sky and Telegraph?
Are the rules any easier to understand ?
It looks much simpler. Almost like FPL.
I just did quick selections in both and leaving it as they are
He is a popular pick but be careful with Dumfries.
This is from the official FIFA site published an hour ago.
I noticed that he is injured. Who would you replace him with other than Trippier. Pavard and Maehle?
Cancelo?
Maehle.
Well, we must use one of our 2FT within GW1, so I’m going to keep Dumfries in my team until the Nederlands team is announced and at his price I can switch almost anyone else in.
Hey team. RMT please.
Rudiger injured Pope won’t start
Constantine, Mitro has travelled with the team but still dealing with that injury. Had him in my first draft but think it’s a bit risky. If you trim down De Jong to Bergwijn you should be able to upgrade Mitro to Martinez from Argentina for example or someone else who is more certain to start.
Looks a bit unbalanced with 5 x 4m players. But if you are going in that direction make sure the cheapos are on the field and play early so you’re not wasting the sub options
i would downgrade Bruno who is a costly 9.5 to a 7-7.5 and improve the bench players. And if u want NED, De Jong is a box to box mid. Better get Bergwjin 1m cheaper.