Premier League sides Manchester United and Leeds United are set to face each other in a pre-season friendly at Croke Park in August.<\/p>\n
When the game was announced it was expected it would take place at the Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n
However, it now looks like the game is set for Croke Park on Wednesday, August 12th.<\/p>\n
The news was first reported by the Irish Independent.<\/p>\n
The World Cup takes place in the US, Canada and Mexico this summer so the start of the Premier League season has been pushed back to August 22nd.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the GAA season will finish at the end of July.<\/p>\n
United last played in Dublin in a friendly against Athletic Bilbao at the Aviva Stadium in 2023. In 2010, United faced a League of Ireland XI at the Aviva.<\/p>\n
The Athletic also report that the game is set to be staged at Croke Park.<\/p>\n
The 82,000 capacity stadium is massive for a friendly game, but both Man United and Leeds have huge followings in Ireland.<\/p>\n
It would also be an historic occasion as only the second soccer game to take place at GAA HQ. The Republic of Ireland played France in a World Cup playoff at Croke Park in 2009, a game that finished in a 1-0 defeat for the Boys in Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League sides Manchester United and Leeds United are set to face each other in a pre-season friendly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-377129","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\/377129","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=377129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}