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)
That’s it, I am going all out
Don’t like the fixtures tomorrow and the possible rotations. Will have just a defender left.
Looks great!
Ivan, what do you mean? You won’t have anybody left
Hopefully he was on a WC and switched Alba to somebody yet to play, so he could then buy somebody he wanted to play, and then switch them in for somebody who played who he didn’t want to play…. what a game
Chips, as I said, in the chaos before the deadline doing all sorts of changes I forgot about Alba and now he is locked as his team already played. Maybe it wouldn’t have made much difference anyway.
I have only Rochet left for manoeuvring but doubt any GK will match Noppert’s 7 points today.
Thinking ahead…Worth a 6ph Richarlison to Mitrovic + Zivkovic to Bruno F?
Is bringing in Bruno worth it?
If Bruno gets booked tomorrow he will miss the next round. Doubt they will risk him.
Thanks Ivan…that makes sense.
Will probably take the hit for Richy to Mitro if Richy does not start.
Mitrovic is a great shout.
It soon time to plan for the final 16 and everybody is hot on Argentina. Just a word of caution though, Australia is like really, really good you know! You can’t scored against them and Messi doesn’t know how to do a pen!
Also me, why won’t it let med have nine Argentinians in my team…!
Anyway, yay Gnabry!
Japan almost winning……..throwing Germany out.
I do not see Germany can make it. They can’t even score vs CRC.
Germany need 7 more goals.
Now, they are definitely out
Second for Japan now. Germany need miracle to survive….
Japan doing it again. Who would have thought they beat Germany and lead against Spain.
They might even top the group.
Auf Wiedersehen Germany
Bad manager decisions, wrong team selection….all messed up-
They screwed up by losing against Japan 1st game. They should have atleast got a draw there.
They probably never ever expected, just like the entire world, that Japan could beat Spain too even if Spain don’t play at 100% level