{"id":139762,"date":"2025-11-14T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139762\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:01:09","slug":"ireland-to-begin-2027-womens-world-cup-qualifiers-at-home-against-france-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139762\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland to begin 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup qualifiers at home against France \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-wnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-wnt\/\">Republic of Ireland<\/a> will begin their 2027 Fifa Women\u2019s World Cup qualifiers with a home game against France on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">After being drawn into Group A2, Ireland were paired with France, Netherlands and Poland as they look to make it to the finals tournament in Brazil in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The qualifying campaign will kick off against top seeds France \u2013 who are currently 6th in the Fifa Women\u2019s World Rankings \u2013 in what will be the 15th meeting between the two teams at senior women\u2019s level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">After hosting France in the first international window of 2026, Ireland will travel to take on Netherlands, who are 11th in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In April, Carla Ward\u2019s team will come up against world number 26 Poland in back-to-back games \u2013 starting away on Tuesday, April 14th before meeting again on home soil on Saturday, April 18th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The group games will conclude in June with a home game against Netherlands on Friday, June 5th and an away fixture to France on Tuesday, June 9th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Negotiations are taking place on match venues and kick-off times, while ticket details will be confirmed in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">2027 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup qualifier fixtures<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tuesday, March 3rd | Ireland v France<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Saturday, March 7th | Netherlands v Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tuesday, April 14th | Poland v Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Saturday, April 18th | Ireland v Poland<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Friday, June 5th | Ireland v Netherlands<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tuesday, June 9th | France v Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland will begin their 2027 Fifa Women\u2019s World Cup qualifiers with a home game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,18998],"class_list":["post-139762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-wnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}