Ireland will face Isreal in the UEFA national league in a neutral venue in Serbia.<\/p>\n
The FAI confirmed the 2026-27 UEFA Nations League fixture on Sunday, October 4th will take place in Ba\u010dka Topola, Serbia.<\/p>\n
This follows a decision taken by the FAI Board to move the fixture to a neutral territory due to operational challenges that could impact on the delivery of the game on home soil.<\/p>\n
Indeed, the change of venue has been approved by UEFA and the game will be played in the TSC Arena in Ba\u010dka Topola behind-closed-doors. The kick-off time to be confirmed in due course.<\/p>\n
Whereas, this announcement completes the venue scheduling for Ireland\u2019s upcoming UEFA Nations League campaign.<\/p>\n
It follows the confirmation that the first encounter with Israel will take place at the Nagyerdei Stadion in Debrecen, Hungary, on Sunday, September 27th.<\/p>\n
Ireland will open their campaign away to Kosovo on Thursday, September 24th, before traveling to Hungary.<\/p>\n
The team will return to the Aviva Stadium on Thursday, October 1st to face Austria, prior to the fixture in Serbia.<\/p>\n
2026-27 UEFA Nations League Fixtures<\/p>\n
Thursday, September 24th: Kosovo v Ireland, Stadiumi Fadil Vokrri, Pristina, 7.45pm<\/p>\n
Sunday, September 27th: Israel v Ireland, Nagyerdei Stadion, Debrecen (Hungary), 7.45pm<\/p>\n
Thursday, October 1st: Ireland v Austria, Aviva Stadium, Dublin, 7.45pm<\/p>\n
Sunday, October 4th: Ireland v Israel, TSC Arena, Ba\u010dka Topola (Serbia), TBC<\/p>\n
Saturday, November 14th: Austria v Ireland, Raiffeisen Arena, Linz, 7.45pm<\/p>\n
Tuesday, November 17th: Ireland v Kosovo, Aviva Stadium, Dublin, 7.45pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland will face Isreal in the UEFA national league in a neutral venue in Serbia. The FAI confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-524511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524511","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=524511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}