{"id":303808,"date":"2026-02-18T06:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303808\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:25:09","slug":"ireland-to-return-to-aviva-stadium-for-womens-world-cup-qualifier-against-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303808\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland to return to Aviva Stadium for Women\u2019s World Cup qualifier against Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland head coach Carla Ward says she pushed for the big game against France to be played at Tallaght Stadium, rather than the Aviva. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2696cf96-f794-4b9a-a29a-ff3f43793e8e.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)\">Ireland head coach Carla Ward says she pushed for the big game against France to be played at Tallaght Stadium, rather than the Aviva. Photo: Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/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\u2019s women will return to the Aviva Stadium for a sixth time later this year against Poland, their main rivals for their targeted third-placed finish in a tough Nations League A\/World Cup qualification group that also includes France and the Netherlands.<\/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)\">And boss Carla Ward insisted that she pushed to host favourites France in their opener at Tallaght on March 3, a tie that might have attracted a larger crowd to the Aviva than the Polish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland head coach Carla Ward says she pushed for the big game against France to be played at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1399,8495,1113,4700,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-303808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-aviva-stadium","9":"tag-david-kelly","10":"tag-fai","11":"tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303808","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=303808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}