The Republic of Ireland have been drawn to face Israel in their group of League B in the Uefa Nations League.<\/p>\n
Ireland has been drawn in group three, alongside Israel, Austria, and Kosovo.<\/p>\n
The FAI have released a statement saying they will fulfil their fixtures against Israel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Football Association of Ireland (FAI) confirms that the Ireland Men\u2019s National Team will fulfil their 2026 UEFA Nations League fixtures against Israel after being drawn together in Group B3.<\/p>\n
“In 2025, a motion was proposed by members of the FAI General Assembly to vote on issuing a formal request to the UEFA Executive Committee for the immediate suspension of the Israel Football Association from UEFA competitions for a breach of UEFA statutes. Members then voted in favour to submit the motion to UEFA, which the Association did in November 2025.<\/p>\n
“While consultation has taken place with UEFA officials, the Association does recognise that UEFA regulations outline that if an association refuses to play a match then that fixture will be forfeited and further disciplinary measures may follow \u2013 including potential disqualification from the competition.”<\/p>\n
Ireland were in a tough group the last time they were in the Nations League, containing England, Greece, and Finland.<\/p>\n
They won 4-2 over two legs against Bulgaria to maintain their League B status.<\/p>\n
The six fixtures will take place between September and November in 2026, with the winner of the group qualifying for a play-off spot for Euro 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland have been drawn to face Israel in their group of League B in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-294728","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-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294728","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=294728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}