{"id":177239,"date":"2025-12-05T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177239\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:52:09","slug":"your-guide-to-world-cup-group-a-irelands-potential-opponents-at-the-2026-finals-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177239\/","title":{"rendered":"Your guide to World Cup Group A \u2013 Ireland\u2019s potential opponents at the 2026 finals in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mexico head coach Javier Aguirre and delegates ahead of the 2026 Fifa World Cup draw at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, United States\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SOCCER W (487).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)\">Mexico head coach Javier Aguirre and delegates ahead of the 2026 Fifa World Cup draw at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, United States<\/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 have learned their potential opponents at the 2026 World Cup as the winner of Ireland, Czechia, Denmark and North Macedonia in the March play-offs will join Group A next summer with hosts Mexico, South Africa and Korea Republic. <\/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)\">Should Ireland beat Czechia and win the play-off final and secure a ticket to the 2026 World Cup, here is what they will face in Group A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico head coach Javier Aguirre and delegates ahead of the 2026 Fifa World Cup draw at the John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-177239","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-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177239","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=177239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}