{"id":150019,"date":"2025-11-20T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150019\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:23:11","slug":"republic-of-ireland-to-learn-world-cup-play-off-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150019\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland to learn World Cup play-off opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/691ef7bd44e31.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The draw for the World Cup play-offs will take place on Thursday afternoon, with the Republic of Ireland set to be in Pot Three.\u00a0\n        <\/p>\n<p>There are 16 teams chasing the last four European spots. The play-off consists of a semi-final and final. Each round is a single leg.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech Republic, Poland, Wales and Slovakia are Ireland&#8217;s potential opponents in the semi-finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ireland will be away from home, with the game set to take place at the end of March.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Northern Ireland, who progressed through the Nations League route, will be in Pot Four.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=49bb71e2-4823-448e-b0e8-311158962de3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f76f434.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Sport Via Getty Images The draw for the World Cup play-offs will take place on Thursday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,608,611,607,610,609,612,43],"class_list":["post-150019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-radio","tag-limerick-today","tag-limericks-live95fm","tag-live-95","tag-live95fm","tag-live95fm-homepage","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150019","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=150019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}