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)
Argentina vs Mexico
Great Messi scores.
Right just score another one for me now.
One more would be wonderful
Anyone like to buy my outright bet on Argentina from me?
I’m not especially impressed. So far.
Actually it’s fine.
I say semi finals at best.
i fancy Saudis to beat this poor Mexican side & Poland to hold Argentina to a draw.
Saudi Arabia & Poland to go thru.
Hooray for Capo Messi! Everyone else has been pretty rubbish (plenty of clean sheets flying about though!). I’m looking forward to our additional points from the key passes, tackles, shots (etc.) from MD1 soon
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PS We’re nearly at 1000 comments!
Do you think the additional points will be added by Christmas
Or maybe New Year’s Day
its already been added. thats why di maria got 6 instead of 5 pts
and md1 scores also updated
I still don’t get it why the 6 points from my GK and Cancelo disappeared
I was wondering why the GK for Ecuador points disappeared myself.
Cancelo 0 pts are correct. He conceded 2 so 1-1=0
But ecuador gk pts i checked. This gk galindez has disappeared from the fantasy game. Its like he doesnt exist. Hence the minus sign.
He vanished unfortunately.
I think they’ll add back the pts once they file a missing person report and find him.
Maybe he was caught dancing or some other banned activity?
He played yesterday against Holland.
I believe we’re all joking. I’m sure he’s not MIA. It would explain his missing points though.
Right, we are halfway in MD2
Apart from Qatar who are out and France who are through, the rest still have something to play for.
Usa vs iran, Senegal vs ecuador, Denmark vs Australia will be the games to watch. In each case, the first team must win and 2nd team a draw should be enough.
Group c absolutely everything is possible. Even Mexico can still make it with a 2 or 3 goal win.
Might be a good idea to have a few of those teams players. Everything on the line could bring big points.
Japan vs Costa Rica