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)
How many free transfers do I get ahead of MD2?
2
Cheers
You have 2 MD1 transfers which you can use now if you haven’t already.
One of those can be carried to MD2 if you don’t use it in the next hour.
Then you get 2 new FT for MD2.
to be used before OR during MD2
Dr Otieno, just transferred Musiala out and brought in Saka.
Is that mean that I will have 2 more FT for MD2?
Nice dive by Ronaldo. Ending his career in disgrace
Fifa are doing their best to gift superstars goals. 2 penalties gifted. First to Messi then to Ronaldo. Atleast Messi didn’t dive. But still 2 gifts by fifa
Good. I hope they give Neymar a couple tonight too
Brazil
Serbia
All names end with “ic” except one.
And 3 of them have Milenkovic in their name, 2 of them are brothers.
Still doesn’t beat the Korean whose 8 starters are either kim or hwang.
Nemanja should change his name to Gudeljvic
C’mon Mitro, show them some samba
I have no Brazil players in this match for some reason? A wishful 0-0 seems unlikely.
1-0 Serbia with a Mitro wonder goal is actually the dream.
That will do for me as i have marquinhos. But still prefer another massive upset and Serbia winning.
Don’t know what might happen tonight but Mitro could be useful for the next game.
Waiting for Neymar PK in 2nd half………Messi got one, Ronaldo, Lewa……So Fifa will give Neymar one.
Very much possible. Vinicius and raphinha are very fast and they could be clipped. If not a theatrical fall may be enough.
But neymar is playing like a midfielder not forward. He should be reclassified.