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)
As expected, Morocco take lead vs Portugal. Barring an own goal, morocco yet to concede this World cup.
Lets see if the underdogs Portugal can make a comeback.
Worry not. The gelled narcissistic primadonna will come to the rescue in the second half
Just figured it out. Morocco have 13 players on the field. 2 are invisible. No other way they could defend like this
And POR are out. So much for my Bruno, Costa and Guerreiro. Who would have thought lol.
Ronnie is crying…
Ronnie & Neymar have shed lot of tears in 24 hours. They are tearmates
Another shock! Will France create another later on??
Congratulations to Morocco. What an historic victory that is.
I fancied them to win, but I still brought in 2 POR players just before kickoff because I was scared to go without, because of their high ownership with others in my ML. But, I don’t mind at all. This is one occasion where I’m happy to lose out at fantasy football, because the real football result is what I wanted
Indeed congratulations Morocco. They have beaten Belgium, Portugal and Spain and drawn with Croatia. What a tournament they are having.
Incredible! And only conceding 1 goal is wild. Hats off to them.
Congratulations Morocco indeed!
the first African team to ever reach reach WC semifinals!
If France beat England tonight, the pool of midfielders who might score a few points is going to be very small!!
Should have let have four forward formation seeing as they were so liberal with the rules
Well done to those who still have their wildcard to play. That must have been the best decision in this unpredictable WC.
Why? I have now 7 Semi players + 2 Eng/3 Fra more to come……thats 9 at least and 3 transfers in my hand for this QF round, so can go to 12. In Semi, I will get 5 more transfers and will use 2/3 of that to get to 15.
So for Final, I will have 2 transfers (from Semi) + 6 (final) which are luxury as if we have 15 Semi players we can use them in Final, as well.
Good for you GM.
I just used my 2 FT to bring in Livakovic and Sosa. That makes 4 players+ whoever survive tonight from the 3 English and 2 French players. In the best scenario I will need at least 2 hits to field in 11
no u can use some of the 5 ft avaliable once md6 is live. But u may not have a bench but starting 11 u can have. without hits.
Remove ur eliminated players for the ones still there. Can wait till ARG vs Croatia lineup is out
dont forget there is a 3rd place playoff too
Makes no difference Reg. Whatever happens, it will be about players from the 4 teams in the SF.
i mean even if ur sf players are out, the losing team still plays 3rd place game. so need not worry if players ur team loses in sf unlike qf