{"id":295473,"date":"2026-02-13T05:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295473\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:21:14","slug":"ireland-to-fulfil-nations-league-games-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295473\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland to fulfil Nations League games against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16 November 2025; Troy Parrott of Republic of Ireland celebrates after the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group F Qualifier match between Hungary and Republic of Ireland at Pusk\u00e1s Ar\u00e9na in Budapest, Hungary. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p>The Football Association of Ireland have confirmed that the Republic of Ireland Men&#8217;s National Team will fulfil their 2026 UEFA Nations League fixtures against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the Boys in Green were drawn to play Israel, Austria, and Kosovo in the Nations League B3 later this year.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2025, the FAI submitted a motion to UEFA requesting the &#8220;immediate suspension of the Israel Football Association from UEFA competitions for a breach of UEFA statutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FAI today released a statement confirming that they will fulfil the games against Israel:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Ireland&#8217;s Nations League B3 games will take place between 24 September and 17 November.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date with all the latest South East <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beat102103.com\/sport\/south-east-soccer-fixtures-whats-on-and-where-to-watch-this-weekend-2144069\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">soccer news<\/a> on our website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beat102103.com\/sport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beat102103.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"16 November 2025; Troy Parrott of Republic of Ireland celebrates after the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group F&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,140693,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-295473","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-ireland-israel-nations-league","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295473","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=295473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}