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)
Now then……
Does anyone know if the power captain chip includes your bench?
Oh nevermind I see that it only applies to your starting 11 in the rules
I went for it as well. Let’s see…
Now I wonder if you can lose a CS in extra time. Can’t find anything in the rules.
Here is the rule on power captain.
Yep, atm Allison is on 12 points for me.
I punted on Livakovic and he’s sitting on 18 for me.
Great choice, almost went for him.
I thought that only 90 minutes was used for scoring points.
Apparently not. I lost the CS points for my GK.
I have looked but can’t find anything. Do penalties scored and saved count as well? Maybe my head is still with FPL.
Extra time counts. Penalties doesn’t for fantasy
Capt Ney to the rescue with Paqueta assist!
There we go again, the cruel time when nobody deserve to be eliminated.
Delighted, ecstatic and over the moon
The better team won
Now Brazil can dance as much as they want on Copacabana beach
Croatia have so much guts and determination.
Absolutely. They kept composed after 1-0 down and continued with the calm and professional approach just like throughout the entire 120 minutes. England don’t need to be worry about France, they should have Croatia in mind.
Yes if they pass the France test.
Incredible qf ties in the WC.
Well there’s 4 transfers needed already
Yup atleast i still had perisic.