{"id":144519,"date":"2025-11-17T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144519\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:41:06","slug":"how-will-world-cup-play-offs-be-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144519\/","title":{"rendered":"How will World Cup play-offs be determined?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Albania, the Czech Republic, Italy, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Sweden and Ukraine are definitely in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kosovo and Turkey will be in barring huge victories against Switzerland and Spain respectively, while Poland would need the Netherlands to lose heavily to Lithuania to avoid the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of North Macedonia or Wales will feature, and most likely both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, what do we know for certain? Not too much yet:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pot 1: Italy<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pot 2:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pot 3: Albania, plus Kosovo unless they beat Switzerland by six goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pot 4: Romania, Sweden, Northern Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turkey and Ukraine are likely to be Pot 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albania, the Czech Republic, Italy, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Sweden and Ukraine are definitely in. Kosovo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-144519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144519","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=144519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}