{"id":147331,"date":"2025-11-19T00:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/147331\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:28:10","slug":"ireland-learn-world-cup-play-off-pot-and-possible-opponents-after-final-round-of-european-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/147331\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland learn World Cup play-off pot and possible opponents after final round of European qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Draw for two-game path to North American finals next summer takes place on Thursday at 12 noon\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"S\u00e9amus Coleman celebrates Ireland's World Cup 2026 Group F win over Hungary in Budapest. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763512090_307_Sports3294542.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">S\u00e9amus Coleman celebrates Ireland&#8217;s World Cup 2026 Group F win over Hungary in Budapest. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland will be in pot three for Thursday\u2019s World Cup play-off draw, meaning Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s side face an away semi-final against either Poland, Wales, Czech Republic or Slovakia next March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last Sunday\u2019s remarkable comeback victory away to Hungary booked Ireland\u2019s place in the play-offs for next summer\u2019s finals in North America and Heimir Hallgrimsson\u2019s men will discover their opponents on Thursday when the draw takes place at Fifa headquarters in Zurich at midday Irish time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draw for two-game path to North American finals next summer takes place on Thursday at 12 noon S\u00e9amus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1113,42,4700,43,4876,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-147331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-fai","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sean-oconnor","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147331","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=147331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}