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)
Am I the only one who hasn’t bothered taking advantage of the different glitches in the game?!
Nope, I haven’t used any either.
However, you’re double my points total!
Me neither. Everything is so efd up, fifth day in the game and still nobody knows what exactly is happening
African teams 0 goals in 4 games. Wish i had cancelo now.
Uruguay
South Korea
Good. Rochet us starting. Wasnt fully sure he is no 1
The question now is who from the 5 Kim will do better, or from the 3 Hwang
Wow. Kim kim kim kim kim. Hwang hwang hwang.
You can add my better half who is also called Kim!
South Korea XI: Kim Seung-gyu, Kim Jin-su, Kim Min-jae, Jung Woo-Young, Hwang In-beom, Son Heung-min, Lee Jae-sung, Kim Moon-hwan, Hwang Ui-jo, Na Sang-ho, Kim Young-gwon.
Here the full names. If u r confused if ur kim or hwang has made it in starting lineup.
Actually, Park and Lee are just as common as Kim, Beak and Soo are in the mix as well, there are lots
First draft for GW2 wildcard
Mendy – Courtois
Dumfries-Maguire-LMartinez-Castagne-Cancelo
DeJong-Saka-Modric-KDB-Bruno
Kane-Mbappe-Messi
Budget allows u this team?
Looks expensive.
It is a little over budget so I’ll have to put a couple of placeholders in at first then bring the Belgian guys in later.
I am leaving the wildcard for MD3 but one thing must do,. Must get Lewa, Poland vs Saudi will be a riot and he is bound to be on his usual hatty or more
The guy who’s never scored in the World Cup?
He is not getting the service he gets for bayern or Barcelona. Poland looked quiet poor. He is an option for sure but not essential.
Well, that will be the time to finish his career in style
Liverpool vs Wolves is still 0-0.
Portugal vs Ghana
At least saw 5 goals.