{"id":169649,"date":"2025-12-01T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169649\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:24:07","slug":"premier-division-gets-early-february-kick-off-as-league-of-ireland-season-dates-confirmed-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169649\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Division gets early February kick-off as League of Ireland season dates confirmed \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/league-of-ireland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/league-of-ireland\/\">League of Ireland<\/a> Premier Division season will get under way on Friday, February 6th, in a slightly earlier start than previous years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The FAI confirmed the key dates for next season\u2019s domestic competitions on Monday, with the First Division set to kick off on February 13th, followed by the Women\u2019s Premier Division on March 14th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The dates for next year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fai-cup\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fai-cup\/\">FAI Cup<\/a> finals were also confirmed, with the men\u2019s decider to be played at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday, November 8th, while the women\u2019s final will be held at Tallaght Stadium on September 27th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">League champions Shamrock Rovers will contest the Men\u2019s President\u2019s Cup against Derry City at Tallaght Stadium on Saturday, January 31st, before Athlone Town host Shelbourne in the women\u2019s fixture on Sunday, March 8th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The men\u2019s First Division semi-final playoffs have been scheduled for October 24th and 27th, ahead of the playoff final on November 1st, and the Premier Division promotion\/relegation playoff will be played on the week ending November 8th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 League of Ireland Premier Division season will get under way on Friday, February 6th, in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,2539,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-169649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-league-of-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169649","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=169649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}