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)
Kop Warrior
Spain beat Costa Rica 7-0? I completely missed that!
Reg83
Lol. But costa rica so far not conceded vs Japan at half time.
IvanTheTerrible
I am surprised japan haven’t scored yet. They have some good players like Kamada and Doan playing in the Bundes.
GoalMachine
They are finding difficult to break the low-block. Germany played much open and Japan took the advantage (with Asano and Doan both playing in Bundesliga and knows how to run behind the German lines).
Reg83
Wow. Costa Rica have just given a huge favor to Germany and themselves. Group wide open now.
The good thing about this world cup is almost all groups are open.
GoalMachine
Costa Rican football has gone down……..I guess they are not producing good players possibly. Brian Ruiz (37) on bench was their best ball player, Celso Borges (34) is on pitch was the holder and at 34 he is still there trying his best. Alongside Yeltsin Tejeda (30) used to be the speedy winger and now with half of his pace is in CM. Overall its an aged and slow team.
IvanTheTerrible
Yeltsin
wonder if his brother Gorbachov Tajeda will be sub in soon 
VanDan
Aye it almost happened to me too haha kept thinking it’ll stop at 2 or 3.
GoalMachine
Huge boost for Germany…now they have to manage at least a draw vs Spain.
Reg83
They can even go thru with a loss. If spain beat japan and Germany beat Costa Rica.
But a draw atleast will make it easier.
IvanTheTerrible
The Germans will be even more motivated now, and I have Costa in goal
Reg83
Costa plays for Portugal.
Spain gk is simon.
IvanTheTerrible
Oh Yeah, I am losing it
VanDan
IvanTheTerrible
Dan, if we could only repeat WC 94
VanDan
Lechkov!!!!! And his great hair
IvanTheTerrible
Not as great as the GK Mihailov
IvanTheTerrible
Belgium vs Morocco
VanDan
Come on Kevin, it’s time.
Reg83
Back to back shocks.
A team that got thrashed 7-0 beat a team who beat Germany.
Now morocco beat the no. 2 ranked team although fully deserved. In fact, Belgium were extremely lucky to win against Canada.
Next canada could beat the WC runners up.
Reg83
Haha took only 1 minute for canada to score
IvanTheTerrible
Don’t regret that didn’t jump on the KDB bandwagon
Aarron13
Midfielders are so poor to choose from in this world cup fantasy football