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)
Giroud needs just one more goal to surpass Thierry Henry’s record of 51 goals for France.
Finally something this md2. Have both mbappe and got t hernandez for a – 3.. And since i used power captain, whoever gets most pts will be captain.
Lol. There goes the french cs.
Mbappe on course for the Golden boot.
Captain Mbappe at the double that’ll do nicely
Same here. So glad I changed to him after Kane’s blank.
Mbappe won’t be playing in the last game that’s for sure
I think he will. In race for golden boot. And he is young and full of energy. Players like giroud or griezmann will be rested.
I couldn’t decide if I should switch the captain to Mbappe or Richy this morning. It was on Saka. Mbappe is making me regret my final decision.
Richarlison might bag a hatty yet
True.
Well that saved the dilemma of deciding to hold or move captain to Messi.
Well I captained Messi by mistake. I forgot that once you select your captain it’s locked in unlike the fpl.
Oh well at least I have Mbappe. Hopefully Messi can get a double too.
As I don’t have Mbappe, switching the armband to Messi and whatever……
I don’t have messi. Will be a difficult watch. Di Maria my only Arg player.
Ivan, we’re probably the only people without him!
Because we are clever and have secret up our sleeve
No Mbappe for me either. I have switched my captain onto Messi. I have triple ARG (Messi, ADM, Otamendi) to hopefully save my Matchday
Welcome to the Messi club Chips
Let’s be realistic here, he’ll probably get sent off!
Kop, with our luck so far I wouldn’t be surprised at all