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)
Who will go thru…Portugal or Switzerland?
Japan or Croatia?
You would expect England to get by Senegal?
Portugal, somehow
Croatia 100%
USA USA USA! Sorry I just had to. Traveling this weekend so I’m going to be watching it from a bar in a little town in the Santa Cruz mountains. I think I saw you say once Bees that you live in the Bay area so I figured you’d get a kick out of that.
Article has been updated for MD4 with fixtures etc, just for ease of use when planning transfers.
Capo Poll renewed too, for what it’s worth!
Ok guys, Gakpo or Richarlison, Shaw or Trippier and which one of Foden, Saka and Bellingham.
Gakpo, Trippier and Foden.
Although I have to say I haven’t got any of those in mine or indeed their alternatives!
Maybe I’m on the wrong track.
Hahaha! Or maybe it’s me
Iv’e gone Gapko, Shaw, Foden and Saka, If Southgate plays Mount over Foden he deserves a kicking, If he starts Rashford over Foden i can sort of understand that,Sterling also in the mix of course, i really don’t want Mount to start at the end of the day
AC system making the players sick you may not want too many Dutch players.
https://news.yahoo.com/world-cup-netherlands-players-hit-194256536.html
Wow, at least we will see the lineups before the deadline.
Usually when it comes to flu, Kane is the first one to catch it but let’s hope all goes well.
Morning
With unlimited transfers can we chop and change our transfers?
Ie if I bring in say Foden but then decide I don’t want him, can I re transfer him out ?
Thought I read somewhere that once a players is transferred in you can’t transfer them out due to pending transfer?
Copied from rules.
b. If the player you transferred out was locked, you will keep the points they earned this Matchday. Once you have removed a locked player from your team you will not be able to make a transfer involving this player until the end of the Matchday.
Bigz it’s unlimited now up until KO @ 3pm. You then get 4 transfers to use during MD4, either to fix stuff like that or to set up for MD5 (QF’s). It’s not like a Wildcard whereby you can continue to chop and change unlimitedlessly (potentially made up word
)…
Innit
Thx for clearing that up
Most likely Southgate will keep Foden for the final
To be on the safe side I am going with Bellingham.
What do you guys think ? Unsure about Di MarÃa mainly and whether I should upgrade Noppert
Coys, I would keep Noppert. You have Martinez for backup in case the yankees score.
Not sure about Di Maria myself. There are better Dutch or Croatian midfielders I think.
Bergie has been disappointing and I´m not sure if Croatia will make it. Japan did not beat both Germany and Spain by luck. They have great team spirit and determination. Thanks for your thoughts Ivan!