{"id":294685,"date":"2026-02-12T19:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:05:12","slug":"republic-of-ireland-to-face-israel-austria-and-kosovo-in-nations-league-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294685\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland to face Israel, Austria and Kosovo in Nations League 2026\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmfm.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\/2026\/02\/698e17d44128e.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    (Photo By Seb Daly\/Sportsfile via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Heimir Hallgrimsson&#8217;s side were placed in Group B3 during the draw which took place in Brussels this evening.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Ireland have been drawn against Israel, Austria and Kosovo in Group B3 of the 2026\/27 UEFA Nations League.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The draw for the international League competition took place in Brussels this evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ireland will compete in League B this year &#8211; which is based off their finishing position in previous versions of the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The League B Groups are as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Group B1:\u00a0Scotland, Switzerland, Slovenia, North Macedonia<br \/>Group B2:\u00a0Hungary, Ukraine, Georgia, Northern Ireland<br \/>Group B3:\u00a0Israel, Austria,\u00a0Republic of Ireland,\u00a0Kosovo<br \/>Group B4:\u00a0Poland, Bosnia Herzegovina, Romania, Sweden<\/p>\n<p>FAI President Paul Cooke confirmed earlier this week that Ireland would fulfil any fixture with Israel, if it was part of a UEFA competition.<\/p>\n<p>Those B3 games will take place between September 24th and November 17th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/698e17782aeda.jpg\" style=\"box-shadow:0 3px 15px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);\"\/><br \/>French legend Patrick Vieira draws the Republic Of Ireland&#8217;s name in this evening&#8217;s UEFA Nations League draw in Brussels (UEFA.com)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=62f5d1bc-976b-45a1-a0cb-ee4acf856ae1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f645855.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Sport (Photo By Seb Daly\/Sportsfile via Getty Images) Heimir Hallgrimsson&#8217;s side were placed in Group B3 during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4263,4262,61,60,3323,4259,4258,4265,4266,4264,4260,4261,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-294685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-drogheda-radio","9":"tag-dundalk-radio","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-job-search","13":"tag-lm-fm","14":"tag-lmfm","15":"tag-lmfm-breakfast-show","16":"tag-lmfm-late-lunch","17":"tag-lmfm-podcast","18":"tag-louth-radio","19":"tag-meath-radio","20":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294685","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=294685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}