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)
Lukaku misses 4 HUGE chances to put Belgium thru.
But Belgium are out.
Pookaku
Croatia finished 3rd in 1998, runners up in 2018. Can they do it this time
Who do they meet in R16? Is it likely to be Spain?
Most likely it will be Spain, but group E is wide open and we could see some surprises. Are Germany staying or going is the big question tonight.
if Germany beat Costa Rica (which is expected) and Japan dont beat Spain (also expected) it will be Morocco vs Germany & Spain vs Croatia.
If Costa Rica win or even draw (and Spain beat Japan) Costa Rica will go thru.
If Japan draw vs Spain but Germany win only by 1 goal, it will come to goals scored, fair play etc.
Costa Rica vs Germany
Muller has got to be ancient…and they are still trotting him out. How many WC has this guy played?
2010 was his breakout WC year. Think he scored 5 in 2010 WC
not as ancient as Messi & Ronaldo who played in 2006 WC too.
Who is your captain? Still don’t know who to move the armband to…Sane, Musiala or Morata…
Japan vs Spain
No Alba. Need to transfer him out, but for who?
Azpi?
Or chance it with a Brazilian defender (but there might be rotation, so who to pick?)
I have Alaba as well. Going to keep the transfer for tomorrow.
Tonight going with Musiala and Olmo. Leaving the Richarlison spot and captaincy for tomorrow too.
Do I stay with Musiala or go Sane??
It’s a tough questions Ivan.
If you had both, which one would you captain?
Taking in consideration that Sane got back from an injury not long ago I find Musiala more reliable somehow.
Thanks!