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)
14 yellow cards so far
Down to tie breaker now…..once more.
Absolutely amazing performances from all 4 teams today.
An absolutely incredible night of football!
Hopefully more drama tmrw.
FotMob has it at 16 now plus (at least) Martinez as he was about to walk up for his pen
I’d love to see his explanations for them all! Especially the Montiel one after the Messi foul, he was barely in the vicinity of the ref for less than half a second and was about to take a free-kick which had literally just been awarded to his team.
And not one in the first 42 minutes! Baffling, but hilarious.
Even tiebreaker also yielded multiple yellow cards……..what a match !
Oh well, didn’t look too convincing with many errors.
Croatia will eat them for breakfast
If Morocco and France did win today, I’ll be down to 3 players!
Wash your mouth out young man!
https://chirb.it/pEGc60
Rumours going around that France will be joining Brazil on Copacabana tonight
Thoughts on using an FT to move either Hernandez or Hakimi to Guerreiro?
I moved otamendi to Guerreiro yday.
But with brazil out, u may want to save transfers
Was that before or after ARG got through, Reg?
Sounds good Chips.
I am very tempted to get rid of Mbappe and bring Ramos
It’s tricky, Ivan. MOR have been so good defensively all tournament, I’d be surprised if POR get as many goals as last time.
I got rid of Mbappe for Neymar, which worked well so far, but I’ll have to wait and see if Kylian punishes me in the ENG game. I hope not!
Yeah, maybe I will stay put. Should have done this with Richarlison, but hey ho…
Mbappe and Co will be silenced tonight by England
Hope you swerved the Ramos transfer, mate. I see he was just subbed off after a 1pt blank.
No, I didn’t go for it. In fact, I couldn’t care less. It’s the most weird WC with most weird results ever.
Thank God this parody will be over soon.
All my FT for this MD are now used up. I have 6 players already through to SF, plus will get 2 more from POR vs MOR as have 2 in action for each side currently. Then I have 3 ENG to finish the MD.
Worst case scenario (assuming no injuries, suspensions or rotations) I’ll have 8 for SF round, or best case I’ll have 11 through. So, with 5 FT to use in the next round, I can get to a starting XI and a couple of bench options at the very least.
Morocco vs Portugal