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)
Hoping for at least one of the underdog teams to win today, as the R16 results so far have been boringly template.
Come on Morocco and Switzerland!
The Swiss can do it l..
Bruno will make sure that they can’t.
The question is, can Spain survive against Morocco…..
I think Swiss have more chance vs Portugal than Morocco vs Spain.
Switzerland arent really underdogs, they topped Italy to qualify here.
Morocco too has a chance i believe.
I have only one player left and he is Bruno.
Wonder whether to keep or change.
Gavi has been impressive so far
I have Ziyech, Hakimi and Shaqiri left. Hoping for some returns today, even if they do get eliminated.
Good selection.
I am staying with the tried and tested and whatever happens.
Probably a more sensible approach than mine. I wanted a few more interesting punts this MD, as feel everybody will have the same players from QF stage onwards. So far I have 80pts and 10 players through, with only my 2 USA punts going out so far. So I’m in a good position, regardless of what happens today.
If Spain and Portugal go through the rest of the tournament will be a pure lottery for fantasy football.
We are talking here, 8 teams from the top 12 in the world by FIFA rankings.
I wouldn’t put any faith in the rankings. Aren’t Belgium 2nd?
Exactly, they are, and Italy 6th
Out of interest, what is morocco fifa ranking?
I think they can possibly beat Portugal or Switzerland and reach sf. Their defense is rock solid.
Shock of the day!
For sure! But fantasy wise that was the best possible scenario for me. Alba and Ziyech were my choices from that match.
Haha…exactly the same here. Only have Olmo who needs to go. With just Bruno left to play.
The morocco gk was incredible! This is how gk should try to save penalties. He wasnt jumping too early and was watching the penalty taker all the way.
Some home advantage to play for Sevilla
Not a complete shock to me. Morocco were so good defensively in the group stages. I went all on them for this fixture and didn’t bother with any Spain assets. I’m really pleased for Morocco getting to their first ever World Cup QF. What an achievement!
I have 2 transfers left………1 for Olmo and 1 for someone/Bruno (if Portugal goes out)…problem is I have to do it now. I guess we cannot transfer any player out once POR-SUI match starts.
I have one and was waiting out this next match to see what I should do. If i do nothing would I have 5 FT in the next round or is it use it or lose it? I’m still a little confused about that.
I think it is use it or lose it. The rules said 1 FT could be carried over in the group stages, which seems to indicate they can’t carry over in the knockout stages. But I don’t think anybody knows for sure
No carry for sure…….if nothing to do, can try some punt.
And they say England are shaky on penalties
4 terrible penalties – 3 by Spain and 1 by Morocco.
Ronaldo and Cancelo benched…….surprising.
Wow! Now Portugal actually have a chance!
Well just like i said no Ronaldo has made Portugal clear favorites. His replacement g ramos with a belter
I think at his age he could be more useful at a later stage, especially if it gets to extra time and penalties.
How late can we still make transfers?
Messi to Neymar? Don’t think he will score many vs NED?
Do you mean from your 4 MD4 transfers? I think until the end of MD4, whenever that is, but it may only be until the last game of MD4 kicks off.
I still have Shaqiri in play, but I lost the USA GK this round, so have just used my last MD4 transfer to replace him. If Shaq goes out tonight, I’ll use one of my QF transfers to deal with that.
I am keeping Messi, as I don’t have any NED players (I gambled on USA beating them). I probably won’t bring any NED in either now, as will put all my chips on ARG to beat them.
If I replace Messi, it will be with Giroud. He is on fire