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)
Wow can’t believe Iran hit both the right and left posts in the same attack. Talk about bad luck!
Yes. Reminds me of canada. Getting so many chances but not scoring.
HELP! Am I missing something? How do I activate the wildcard?
U can’t now. Had to activate it before Iran vs wales started
thanks. that explains it
You have to wait until Monday evening when the last game of MD2 has finished and then activate for MD3.
thanks. missed that rule.
dang Wales World cup camping is running out. If anything it looks like iran is likely to win.
Yeah their passing is terrible. When did they become like a Sunday league team.
Watch them improve for england. I think Wales play better as underdogs.
So I have 2 free transfers left. Will I get any more for MD3?
You have 2 to use during MD2. This can be to fix players who aren’t starting in MD2 or you can bring on players at the end of the MD2 to prepare for MD3. Then you have 2 more during MD3 to fix your MD3 team. But you can’t transfer out a player in MD3 who has already played because you get unlimited in MD4 (last 16)
It said 3FT so that’s what I did
can’t be bothered by the rules of this under-par fantasy iteration, maybe that’s why I’m last in the league 
Dan, I made 3 transfers and then saw the news about Neymar and changed him with Rich.
Whether that will go as a hit or not, I don’ give a flying f
After another couple of weeks, it will all be over and back to the serious stuff. So finding ways to abuse the rules and picking some random players in this mickey mouse fantasy is just fun at the end of the day
This one is rather crap, you can’t even view how other teams in your league have performed in MD1. Unless I’m missing something.
Yes, you can. Just go to leagues at the top left corner and select my leagues.
No you can’t Ivan, it only shows MD2 team even when you click on MD1, try it.
Well well Wales keeper got red card..
Yup they are cooked, penalty to iran?
Nevermind no penalty.
But seriously if iran doesn’t win, then a missed opportunity.
A draw is probably better for wales slightly but a win would of been better for both.
Wow. The Asian teams have been spectacular this world cup.
Just need Qatar to turn up now.
Qatar
Senegal
interesting Qatar have changed their GK. I was anyways going to transfer him out