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)
Netherlands vs Argentina
We could have realistically another France vs Croatia final.
I believe thats only happened once before. 1986 and 1990 Argentina vs Germany final.
Which teams are likely to keep CS for rest of this round? Portugal and ?
Morocco. Could be another 0-0
Dare I bring in Noppert from the bench for Livacovic?
I did it with 1 pointer Allison.
That makes sense but Livacovic sitting on 4 but 8 now since I played the PC chip.
I would keep livakovic. 4 pts decent
Cheers
To be honest, thought I’ve changed him with Costa but must have forgotten to press confirm
I’m missing Militao cs points ?
He Got subbed for Sandro while still 1-0 up?
Me too. Hoping they will get reinstated at some point.
Clean sheet points are lost in this game even when subbed off and points scored later. I’ve lost a few that way.
It looked like that was the case, but those earlier incidents have since been corrected. Like below for Theo, in MD1, showing CS points even though FRA conceded in that game before he was subbed on.
Militao now on 6pts
Yeh that’s tough. I’ve had a few of those. The player keeps a CS but if the team subsequently concedes then the CS goes. Curiously if the goal is scored before your player comes on and there are no more after, the CS seems to score.
That rule was charged long back. If u come off and then team concedes, u keep cs
Stick with Captain Neymar on 16pts, right? Messi was gonna be my backup, but I don’t wanna be too greedy and twist