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)
LEROY SANE
Leroy Sane has sustained an injury in training and has been ruled out of Germany’s opening World Cup game against Japan.
Sane, 26, has missed Germany’s final training session before they take on Japan on Wednesday.
A statement from the DFB on Tuesday morning read: “The German National team must be without Leroy Sane in her World Cup opening game against Japan on Wednesday.
“The 26-year-old offensive player from champions FC Bayern Munich is unavailable against the four-time Asian champions due to knee problems. The remaining 25 players of the German World Cup squad took part in the final training session in Al-Shamal.
There goes my 1 transfer
Argentina
Saudi Arabia
Cheers Ivan. I have the entire ARG front three in my team. Hoping for some big scores from them
Wow, only Messi (C) and De Paul here
I have messi as 12th man and di maria
Reg, must the 12th man be from the bench or anywhere?
12th man is an extra player u can put. No budget restriction. But u cant captain him or sub him off. 12th man pts added to 11 players score
OK thanks. I’ve changed captaincy from Kane to Messi and the one I can think is Neymar but it’s not gonna be an easy game against Serbia. Maybe will leave it for MD2….
Thats a pathetic var and referee decision. If this is a penalty we ll have 10-15 penalties a game. Killed off the game early.
WTF
Saudi Arabia showing Qatar and Iran the way.
1-2 now
Surely Argentina will do a massive comeback
Just wow. Can the Saudis really pull it off?
I wouldn’t be surprised. That will be the first big upset in this WC.
Have you ever watched a domestic Argentinian game? That’s how they’re playing..
Don’t write them off just yet.
Back in Italia 90 they lost the first game to Cameroon and still managed to make it to the final where lost to West Germany.
In that world cup, they went thru as one of the best 4 3rd place teams similar to format in Euros now. Here they need to finish 2nd.
If they manage it. Group C would be wide open. Good for Poland and Mexico.
The Saudis actually looked really good in their final friendly against Croatia, completely dominating them and should have won comfortably if it wasn’t for their terrible finishing (Croatia somehow ended up winning that game) but did not expect them to beat the argies…
Nice Saudis won. They might have a shot of reaching knockouts
This is has to be the biggest shock in WC history. Atleast on par with Senegal beating France 1-0 in 2002.
But Saudi team were best known for being demolished 8-0 by Germany in 2002 WC. For them to beat mighty Argentina has to be the biggest shock ever.
I’m getting Lewa right now.
I think that is a good idea. Let’s hope we are not too late, after he scores a brace against Mexico later on.
U will get him for a player who hasnt played? Only then the points will count. If u get him for someone already played, u won’t get lewa points