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)
Can someone explain when i view other teams their total points and points within the team don’t add up?
One reason could be 12th man is used? But its invisible when others are viewing someone else’s team?
For 1 player, i see 51 pts but points add up to only like 35. Where are the other 16 pts coming from?
Yes I see the same. It appears for the top few players in the league it is just Mbappe as 12th man who is missing. But I can explain the 16 pt difference.
It looks like where a locked transfer has been made, the team has already changed and is showing the new squad but the score correctly reflects the locked players points.
Otieno, just had a look at you team and the total points counted are 38 but it says 48.
Where the other 10 points coming from?
Apparently we can’t see each other’s 12th man so 9 points is Mbappe. No idea where the 10th point has gone. 48 is my correct score.
This is pure madness. Thank God it’s only a month long affair
MrsO is more interesting. She has 34 insteadIt is showing Leckie(c) on the team who shouldn’t come in till next week. But the total gives her Kane’s 7 points but not the capta
35 on team, 34 on total but should be 41!
The “12th blind man”.
WOW Breaking News
Sounds like our points are going to be adjusted anytime “soon”
I am still waiting to get the extra 2 pts for Bale earning the penalty.
The DBAs at FIFA are hard at work I’m sure!
Anyone going to brave changing your captain off Messi? If so who are you going with?
I did mine last night (early morning) to Mbappe, 6pt gain, probably should have waited for KdB with the 7pts for a midfielders goal
World Cup fantasy is a very difficult fantasy game for me. I don’t know about some WC teams and players. I am always familiar with EPL and popular UCL players.
So they’re adjusting historic points …?
Great but that means potentially the 1-2 pointers we’ve already subbed out will get more points than we first thought.
We may not have subbed them if the scores were correct first time.