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)
Is there an easy way to see which day your players are playing on, without clicking into each one individually? I’m thinking like the DATE setting on UCL fantasy which makes it really easy to sort out your starting XI by those who play earliest.
Unfortunately not – they’ve missed a trick there! Especially a trick which they already have up their sleeves
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The only button to see when the fixtures are is this one (it’ll show you the fixtures for that Matchday).
Ah, thanks for this LA
Australia squad
Hi! Do you boys have any plans to do a World Cup predictor game, if you don’t I’m happy to start a league on this site https://www.superbru.com/worldcup_predictor/play_tipping.php I’ve been using it for about 4 years now with no problems, very easy to use, with a simple scoring system, 1pt for a result, 1.5 for a close result and 3pts for a correct score, just say and I will sort it out, not as personal as the site predictor, but something to do if you’re taking a break.
I’ll speak with Matt and James and get back to you on that one!
Sound, I’ll check back here for a reply.
I’m in! Looking forward to the madness!
Croatia squad
They’ve put Perisic in the forward category in that pic
. Interestingly he’s a mid in this game! Some decent options there.
Anyone worked out how to play the chips? I would like to go for 12th Man in GW1
Not yet, will have to think about it. The Power Captain would be good to use when we’re stuck with who to captain (as there might be several good options).
Yes, I will be playing 12th man in MD1 for sure.
Then almost certainly playing my WC in MD3
Not sure on the Power Captain. Did initially think MD2, but then thought maybe not, because as long as we have good captain options on each day, we can keep twisting until we get a result, so there are already multiple chances to get a good captain return in MD2. But in the later stages, with less matches, and over less days, we’ll have fewer chances to get the captain right, so I will probably keep Power Captain for QF or SF stage.
Yes agree. Power captain to play in latter stages
Switzerland squad