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)
This is insane!
Golden boot, world cup final hat trick and lose! Ouch!!
What a game!! Best final ever! And what a result!!
Yes…a magnificent roller coaster! So happy for Leo and ARG!!!
BRAVO Argentina
Congratulations to Rosco for winning our ML
Congrats Rosco & what a WC.
I struggled to make ground again after a poor MD3 but seeing I snuck Init (Captained Giroud) by 2 points was enough to give me a wry smile at the end.
I went out on my sword with that one Den. It was go big or go home as I had to do something different to win being 10 points behind.
Congrats to Rosco, well deserved!
I know you did & it was a good punt.
Thank you!! I just need to take this luck into FPL now!!
Roscoe P. Coltrane to the top! Congrats!
Hahaha thanks pal!
Well done Rosco. I’m happy with 3rd in that
Cheers pal!!
Well done Roscoe great win! Whose idea was it to play the final after the 3rd place playoff anyway? Could have done with swapping out those French Argentina defenders and gk
Well played Rosco. Clear winner there. Too good for me. I’ll happily settle for second place
Do you guys know if the points are final ? Or is the game still updating?
Does anyone know how many total teams/players there were? It appears that I finshed inside of 200k. That sounds very good but I have no idea how many teams there were.
Already a classic that game….
But best of all: It’s time to start thinking about fpl again!
Oh for sure!! We have a bumper tips article coming your way very soon!!
Cant wait!