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)
Denmark vs Tunisia
Skov Olsen benched. Should have gone with Hojbjerg.
He’s on the pitch in the graphic you just uploaded, mate?
Oh yes, he is.
Flashscore had him benched earlier, now corrected
Can you transfer out 2 players that have played for two that haven’t and get the new player points for gw1?
I don’t think you can. The players transferred in will start scoring from MD2.
Most of my players are on 0 and 1 except a couple of CS and that Messi goal. Sane is also out, means I have to force a transfer.
Another transfer – just rethinking whether to play Rochet or transfer to anyone else.
God knows who is getting those tackle, shot etc. points.
GM, I think we better wait this MD to end. Everything is still up in the air with so many uncertainties like points, transfer etc. Let’s hope Thursday night we get the clear picture.
The site really sucks. FIFA not making money from it so don’t think they care.
As far as I remember in previous WCs they had sponsors like Coca Cola and McDonald, there is no sponsor this time by the look of it.
This is possibly the worst fantasy game I’ve played and I’ve played a few!
Mexico vs Poland
¡Viva la Mexico!
The first game i have no one in my fantasy team
Zielinsky, Pavard and 12th man Mbappe today…let’s go guys! Forgot I ousted Olsen for Zielinsky.
Only Pavard for tonight. Musiala tomorrow, then on Thursday Cancelo, Sosa and Perisic will replace Trippier, Olsen and De Paul.
Still can’t make up my mind whether to make Neymar 12th man or leave it for MD2.
Can u do 12th man now while the MD is active? I think u had to do it before the MD starts.
I think it will apply for next MD if u do it now.
Can you activate a chip mid matchday? When I look at my chips they are all locked.
No, apparently you can only apply a booster before the first game on a MD.
The whole game is so f up, it’s beyond believe.
But shouldn’t it be that way? A booster should be used before md starts. Otherwise if ur both ur captains fail, u can just use power captain during a matchday. Same with 12th man. It will be unfair if u can use it middle of matchday