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)
Oh well, my week off work is over and from tomorrow I will be able to watch only the evening games. A bit of football detox ain’t bad
I have taken leave for 2 weeks. But I live in India & from Tuesday matches here start conveniently at 21:30 & 00:30. So far 1st match was at 15:30
Yeah, just noticed. They put them two games at the same time twice a day for MD3. Then the last 16 start immediately on Saturday.
4pm and 8pm my time……..can see only the second one unless I can manage a corner seat in office. In fact did once with phone beside my laptop.
………but can’t do it in office everyday.
@Reg83, should be 20:30 your time, not 21:30 I guess.
No its 21:30.. India is 2.5 hours
behind Qatar.
Yeah last group games in each group simultaneously.
Correction. India is 2.5 hours ahead of Qatar.
By the way, GK Galindez points have been reinstated, he is on 7 now.
Hooray, they located him.
Did Gonda Japan gk get any points today? Showing “-” for me
haha. See i told u. They found him. He must have been partying at night.
Do you think Mbappe is rested given France is through?
I think he will play. In race for Golden Boot. Young and one of the best in world right now.
Griezmann & Giroud likely to be rested. If Mbappe is rested, he may as well full rest full 11. But they wouldnt want their rhythm to go.
Ok from a purely fantasy perspective will he play 60 minutes? That’s the only way he scores a point..
I don’t think Mbappe starts this one why would they risk him
Serbia and cameroon making up for the plenty of 0-0s.
3-3 with 20 mins left
And now ghana vs south korea 2-2 with 30 mins left.
Ghana win 3-2.. Back to back WC classics.
Kudos to the Kudus owners!
Just realised you can’t make changes for Matchday 3 until midday tomorrow
Yes you still can if you have a MD2 transfer left
I forgot to sub on Alisson!
Well, I didn’t forget. I just thought Brazil was the last game today!
Don’t worry, in the last WC the Swiss held Brazil to a 1-1 draw. Most likely we’ll get the same result.
Ooops sorry, not this time
I’ll get over it. Somehow!