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)
Cracking start Init near the top of the league!
Person above you took full advantage of the minus budget glitch I see haha. I couldn’t get my head around it to even attempt.
How do we activate WC as I’m definitely hitting for GW2?
Yes but the top guy also forgot to put rochet for martinez and batshuayi for any midfielder. He should have had 12 pts more.
He did not.
I think something wrong when viewing other teams. Many players with points are on bench. Must be another glitch.
Yeah, the site is just a bit crap.
You click on the option when it pops up later tonight and before KO tomorrow. I think it’s disappeared at the moment.
Given KDB scored 2 points it’s hard to say I took full advantage.
WC in MD2 will needs to be activated between 1am to 10am UK time tomorrow.
Same here…on California time. I am certainly not getting up for this crapshoot of a competition.
May have to take one hit and leave the rest as is.
Shall we call it cheating instead?
If all the other riders are taking EPO, damn right I’m on the gear too!
If Otieno is the Lance Armstrong of fantasy football WC then you’re the Bradley Wiggins
This is great
https://twitter.com/Football__Tweet/status/1595775065752313857?s=20&t=DPU9VEgGEDb1Uh49G59g4A
So is it 9pm or 1am to use these MD1 transfers?!
Use it before the 4h 38mins. Use atleast 1.. 1 can be carried forward
Wow at the 2nd goal from Richarlson!
Goal of the tournament so far.
MD2 is open now looks like. I also got 3/3 transfer (1 carry).
+1 Boosters seems to be active for GW2
Richarlson(c) ; finally something to cheer about with the worst, minimum effort fantasy game in history. One more reason to despise FIFA.
Good job mate!
Cheers, Bees. Looks like you are doing ok!