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How to make substitutions in FIFA Club World Cup Fantasy

15 June 2025 25 comments
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If you’re playing FIFA Club World Cup Fantasy and new to Fantasy games of this ilk, you may or may not be aware that you can make manual substitutions between each fixture.

WHO CAN I SUB ON/OFF?

If a bench player is yet to play and you stick to the valid formations, you can manually replace a player from your starting XI.

If you’re taking out a player who has already played, say Lionel Messi ($10.5m) after his blank on Sunday morning, then the change is irreversible.

Doing so means you’ll only get points from the new player.

WHAT ABOUT AUTO-SUBS?

Any manual changes made to your team during a live Matchday (which can be done right up until the final match) will cancel the auto-subs functionality for that Matchday.

HOW DO I MAKE A SUBSTITUTION?

In the live Matchday tab of the ‘Team‘ page, click the shirt of the player you want to remove and hit ‘Sub Out’.

You can then select the player you want to bring in by clicking on their shirt.

Make sure to click ‘Confirm’ to finalise the change.

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  1. Powers106
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 29 days ago

    GK Sommer or Armani ? I have Sommer for now and Dumfries on the bench, Armani in reserve and Mastantuono starting, so tried to split. But is one match easier than the other? Cheers!

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    1. Dubem_FC
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      They don't play the same time. Start the one that plays first(Armani and Mast), then if they blank or don't give you the points you expected, you can sub them for the players yet to play.

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    2. WALOR
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      This is different from FPL - substitutions can be made within a calendar day.
      Armani plays first.
      If he doesn't do well, you can take him out for Sommer, so long as you make the manual sub before Inter's match begins.
      Just make sure the later-playing players are on your bench now.

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      1. Charlie Price
        • 5 Years
        1 year, 29 days ago

        The drop-down menu on the ‘My Team’ page has seemingly disappeared.

        This menu should enable easy reference to the dates when your chosen players are actually performing. Without it you have to visually check the fixture schedule to make sure your bench is populated with the players who play later.

        Don’t understand why this feature has been removed whilst MD1 is in progress.

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  2. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    1 year, 29 days ago

    Another Crystal Palace goal

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  3. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    1 year, 29 days ago

    Dont understand why teams dont zip their passes on short corners

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  4. keefy59
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 29 days ago

    Just like old times
    Kane captain fail (subbed off)

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    1. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      Yep.

      Not worth the price.

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      1. rokka222
        • 2 Years
        1 year, 29 days ago

        but still honestly unbelieavble that he did not return in that game lol

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  5. Riverside Red
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 29 days ago

    Kane captain leading the line. Bayern score 10 goals....what could possibly go wrong.

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    1. PartyTime
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      Salah vs Bournemouth. Glad not being a victim on both occasions

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      1. Dubem_FC
        • 10 Years
        1 year, 29 days ago

        Plus Kai versus Norwich. Victim of all three, here.

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  6. dunas_dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 29 days ago

    Can you change captain each day in MD1 (assuming player you switch to hasn’t played)? Or are we only allowed to change captain only once? Rules ambiguous saying in para 1 you can change “ an unlimited number of times “ during a live MD but then in para 2 says “ you are able to change captain once more” for player yet to play. I think it means you can change as often as you like for player yet to play in MD and once more probably should not be read literally and means you can do it again and again in MD for player yet to play


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    “During a live matchday, you can change your captain an unlimited number of times, as long as the new selected captain is yet to play in the current matchday.

    Once your captain has played in the matchday, you are able to change your captain once more for another player who is yet to play. If you choose to change your captain, you will lose their double points, and your new captain will score double instead.”

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    1. The Orienteer - find me in …
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      I may well be missing something, but why would you change captains every day? Unless, for example, you had Dembele today which would then allow you to move the captaincy to someone playing tomorrow and so on. As long as your captain hadn't played today in which case you only get to change him once. Is a bit confusing I agree; I guess we will have to see what happens in practice. As I had Olise today, I think I'll be sticking!

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      1. CoracAld2831
        • 5 Years
        1 year, 29 days ago

        Obviously you only change it if they are (the playing manager) not happy with the amount of points their captain produced.

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    2. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      You can change your captain before & after every match, but not when the match is live and playing.

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    3. Charlie Price
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      The wording for these games should be unambiguous & not open to doubt. We should not have to conduct in-game experiments to discover what is or isn’t allowed. Doesn’t reflect very well on the FIFA planners. Not sure why I am even bothering with this now.

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  7. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    1 year, 29 days ago

    I will never get tired of seeing a player run across the top of the box and curl it into the far corner.

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  8. The Mandalorian
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 29 days ago

    Bayern scoring 10 just took a massive poo on this competition.

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    1. Dubem_FC
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      Did Liverpool scoring 9 against Cherries do same to EPL?

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    2. have you seen cyan
      • 6 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      IDK why I didn't go triple Bayern. Only had Olise and Kane. Kane trolling me as usual.

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    3. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      I actually expected Bayern to score 15, group stages do have some huge miss-matches

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  9. Sir Michael Taker
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 29 days ago

    I don't know what's worse, the tournament itself or the fantasy game. Both sound horrific. Wake me up in August.

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  10. Assisting the assister
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 29 days ago

    Help please. I have Olise VC so how can I engineer it so he gets the cap points. Captain someone who doesn’t play? Currently on Hakimi who got 7

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    1. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 29 days ago

      Your selected Captain will score double points. If your captain doesn’t play any minute during the matchday, your Vice-Captain will score double points instead.

      [B]However, the Vice-Captain will score double points ONLY if you have not done any changes to your team during a live matchday. [/B]
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      .Don't think it can be done.

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