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)
Exciting match already! Barely 10 minutes in.
Historically the bronze medal game is always high scoring.
That was a clear penalty Gvardiol own……but its not high profile player and thus no VAR and no penalty.
*won
I knew the final result before the second half started
What is all this talk about Mbappe going to MU? Some seem to really believe it
The usual crazy gossip as the January transfer window is nearing.
https://www.eurosport.com/football/transfers/2022-2023/man-utd-line-up-150m-kylian-mbappe-as-cristiano-ronaldo-considers-saudi-arabia-switch-paper-round_sto9241159/story.shtml
This link unavailable in US. I won’t be holding my breath on this move.
Hi everyone,
I haven’t been playing the FIFA fantasy game, and I’m glad I didn’t as it seemed to be such a mess.
I also didn’t want to brag too much especially after the quarter finals
And I see many of you will be in favour of Argantina tomorrow, and I can understand the reasons why for historic reasons with Messi…
But I thought I could just say a word, and I feel relatively confident for the finals if our players are not decimated by this virus (which could be Covid, but shush).
I’m hoping for a good game with the main 11 playing on both sides, and both teams being better attackingwise than defensivewise. I’ve personally been impressed with the unity showed by our team despite all the injuries, and by some individual performances like especially Griezmann.
Anything can happen in a single game, but I fully believe we can win again, allez les bleus!!!
And talk to you again soon for proper FPL
Cheers,
A French man living in London.
Frenchie,
Good luck to your boys today and in all honesty, may the best team win.
I have a bet on Argentina so I obviously hope it is them but in my humble opinion, the final is being played out by the best two teams and both would be worthy winners.
Enjoy your day.
Well as a neutral, I just would like to enjoy the game.
Yes, may be love for Messi makes people swing to Argentina camp, but he really pulled that team. But some incredible individual/team performances are witnessed – Messi, Griezmann, entire Morocco team, incredible Croatia team (their record in WC history is unparalleled considering the size of the country), energetic Canada team (Alphonso Davis especially) etc.
Argentina vs France
Final PUNT time……..give me your punt pics. I have 3 FTs and would like to have some fun.
I have Martinez, Otamendi, Theo, Enzo Fernandez, Messi, Mbappe and Giroud……except Messi and Mbappe am open to change anyone.
That’s me with 2 FT remaining. Think will keep as that.
I swapped out Fernandez for Di Maria…think he is more attacking.
Took a chance and swapped Giroud for Alvarez….