{"id":458951,"date":"2026-05-20T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458951\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:24:10","slug":"league-of-ireland-third-tier-format-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458951\/","title":{"rendered":"League Of Ireland Third Tier Format Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 20 May 2026 14:03\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Emma O&#8217;Connor\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0db0efd8b75.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Among the clubs playing will be Leinster senior league side Newbridge Town.\n        <\/p>\n<p wrap=\"\">League of Ireland third tier format confirmed.<\/p>\n<p wrap=\"\">The FAI has confirmed the format for the upcoming new third tier of the League of Ireland, which is set to begin in August of this year.<\/p>\n<p wrap=\"\">Fifteen clubs will take part in three groups of five, with teams playing each other both home and away. The three winners of the groups will advance<br \/>to the semi-finals, with the last place going to the best performing runner-up.<\/p>\n<p wrap=\"\">Among the clubs playing will be Leinster senior league side Newbridge Town in a group with CK United (Carlow\/Kilkenny), Killarney Celtic, UCC and Villa FC (Waterford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 20 May 2026 14:03 By Emma O&#8217;Connor Among the clubs playing will be Leinster senior league side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-458951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458951","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=458951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}