{"id":351281,"date":"2026-03-17T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351281\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:35:10","slug":"ireland-teams-discover-pool-opponents-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351281\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland teams discover pool opponents for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland’s men’s and women’s teams discovered their pool opponents for this summer’s FIH Hockey World Cup when the draw took place at the Wagener Stadium in Amsterdam this afternoon.<\/p>\n

The women’s team were drawn in Pool C alongside Belgium, Spain and New Zealand in the 16-nation competition.<\/p>\n

Their male counterparts will also figure in Pool C, with Australia, Spain and South Africa providing the opposition for Mark Tumilty’s charges.<\/p>\n

Ireland’s men’s team took top spot in their World Cup qualifying tournament in Chile earlier this month, seeing off Canada, Korea, Poland, Wales and France<\/a> to boast a perfect record.<\/p>\n

The women’s team advanced to the finals after a nail-biting penalty shootout win over Japan<\/a> in Santiago in a third place play-off.<\/p>\n

Conveniently for Ireland fans, both teams will be based in the Belgian city of Wavre during the pool stages.<\/p>\n

The World Cup takes place in the Netherlands and Belgium from 15-30 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s men’s and women’s teams discovered their pool opponents for this summer’s FIH Hockey World Cup when the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-351281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351281","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=351281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}