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)
Do we have 6 free transfers for the 3rd place play off and 6 more for the final? It isn’t specified clearly.
No idea. We have been in the dark from day one with this game and it looks like will finish on that note.
6 transfers covers both matches (MD7).
Smash must be excited
Welcome to the strikers’ graveyard Cristiano!
Gives me a good excuse not to envisage anything else at Stanford Bridge apart from their defence (oh and apparently the area is pretty good for shopping too, if you’ve got big bucks!)!
Cheerio all! I can feel the rumblings of FPL talk, soon becoming ‘à la mode’ again! (= trendy)
Look forward to corresponding with ye good folk! 😉
Oh I hope not . Seems pretty clear his legs have gone. Chelsea are such a mess
Glad Man U got rid of him. They were playing better every time he wasn’t in the squad.
Ronaldo’s deal could be just pie in the sky, but if Chelsea get Nkunko they are sorted. Playing fantasy Bundesliga, everyone knows that he is number one must have for your team.
https://www.football365.com/news/chelsea-transfer-almost-ready-stance-short-term-cristiano-ronaldo-revealed
Now that we’re at the end of this. Who is are you all wanting to win? Personally I want Argentina.
Argentina and Messi, just to piss Ronaldo off even more!
Argentina.
That’s who my money was on from the start so I’m in for a few pre-Christmas bucks if they land.
Argentina for me!
Let’s go Argentina then
Best captain for today guys? Ziyech? Or?
If CS likely then Hakimi? Where are you guys?
I have the Power Cpt on………so its in the air whoever scores max. on my starting xi.
Otherwise, I always prefer attacker over defender…..may be you can pick Ziyech or Modric (one farewell cpt).
Ziyech for me as C
I am going with this
Sosa is not starting, so you can change it to any other CRO def.
Thanks GM, was too late and he is already locked
Any news on Rabiot? I have 3 transfers left and 8 players today and 7 players tomorrow.
Croatia vs Morocco