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)
Matchday 5 is open
Question?
If I use my Wildcard chip now,
Do I get unlimited transfers throughout matchday 5 ie (quarter finals).
To then build a team for semis?
Similar to the “hack” in the group games?
You do yes! Lucky bugger!
Thx Ros
Remember to get your trades in by the last whistle of the last game of the round
New FPL Fixture Tracker is live…
https://fantasyfootball247.co.uk/fantasy-football-fixture-tracker/
I don’t recognize any of those countries init
Spurs and Man City have DGW20.
Ars and Man City have DGW23.
They do but 20 are tough fixtures. DGW 23 worth consideration though.
Caught that, I think…. Bettter?
As someone who has been paying zero attention, that looks great Init
Wooo nice. I guess we’ll have the WC drafts flooding in pre-Xmas
Anyone knows if we can use some of the 4 FT during the MD5 or they have to be all used before the deadline?
4FT? I have 5!
Correction,I also have 5. We must have rolled 1 FT from the previous round.
Quite possibly. I’ve been on hols so wasn’t paying much attention.
I missed all the games from the last 16, so really looking forward to the quarters.
MD5 has 5 free transfers and you are not able to roll transfers between knockout stages. It said 4/4 on the MD5 screen for a bit but the rules always stated 5 and it changed soon into the MD.
The 5 transfers are for use within MD5 (MD6 will likely start 20 mins or so after the ENG/FRA game). You can use them before matches on unlocked players but I think they are better served if possible on locked players in preparation for MD6 when we’ll all lose a bunch of players.
Alert
It could be just rumours but keep an eye….
That’s what I was wondering actually, had Stevie on first draft though he’s out currently. Can’t call this one but doubt there are many goals. Neither team impressed so far but they weren’t particularly challenged so
Yes I know Messi lost to the Saudis but that was years ago.
Who knows
it could be the last tango for Messi 
hahaha that is truely disturbing. Probably just pens after a 1-1, but a huge boost to winner, either team will think they can take it after that.
I am so tempted to go differential and replace him with Ramos. He had 6 attempts on goal, 5 attempts inside the box, 3 big chances, 2 big chances scored and 3 goals vs Switzerland. Doubt Morocco will be lucky again.
Morocco werent lucky. They defended well all WC.. Spain barely created chances vs them
Croatia vs Brazil
Sincerely hope Perisic, Modric and Co make them dance their way back to Brazil this afternoon
Definitely not an easy game for Brazil so far
Everything is possible. After all, Croatia were the silver medallist in the last WC while Brazil were sent home by Belgium in the QF. Most likely we’ll se extra time and even penalties.