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)
England, watch out
if ENG beat USA later, ENG are thru irrespective what Wales do.
Whatever happens tonight, Wales have to trust USA beat Iran. But England winning would help because Gareth might give all the squad players a run out for the third game.
It’s unlikely but anything could happen with a bit of luck.
Asia teams record at this WC is very impressive.
3 wins, 2 draws, 1 loss
The wins came against ARG, GER & now Wales.
Africa record has been poor.
2 0-0 draws, 3 losses, just 2 goals.
for those wondering how Power captain works, I have activated it. Its currently on Bale, who is my highest scorer, well with 1×2= 2 pts.. I got in Sabaly, if he gets a CS, for example, C will be him.. If then Bergwijn scores, it will go to him, etc. or whoever is highest.
No glitches. It works as they have told.
I’m going to have to rethink my GW3 plans. A change to the rules means you can’t transfer out players who have already played in GW3. That means my budget fiddle of taking out Messi for a 4.5 after he has played and bringing in Havertz for my 4.5 placeholder isn’t going to work.
dont think Havertz is a good choice vs Spain anyways. Maybe Richarlison
It’s a game that Germany now must win and I want Havertz for GW3 so I would have happily took anything he could offer rather than a 4.5 scrub in GW3
There are so many good cheap picks, I really don’t think you need the budget hack. The player pricing in this game has been really generous I think.
Well whatever the Asian magic that is going around the World Cup still hasn’t happened for Qatar.
Now they are 1-0 down to Senegal.
It would have had the penalty been given.
They have Ronaldo yday a penalty for a dive, but today not given for a genuine foul.
On both occasions, Var was not used.
But var was used to give a non existent penalty to Messi. Either a poor or biased WC for the refs and VAR.
Moment ls after Qatar denied a clear penalty, Senegal score.
Yeah it’s not going their way so far. At least they have improved from the first game.