{"id":593121,"date":"2026-08-14T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/593121\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:58:08","slug":"fai-to-refund-season-ticket-holders-for-ireland-v-israel-fixture-in-serbia-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/593121\/","title":{"rendered":"FAI to refund season ticket holders for Ireland v Israel fixture in Serbia \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/football-association-of-ireland-fai\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/football-association-of-ireland-fai\/\">Football Association of Ireland<\/a> (FAI) will refund season-ticket holders the value of the Republic of Ireland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nations-league\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nations-league\/\">Nations League<\/a> fixture against Israel on October 4th due to the game being played behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/a>\u2019s side will face Israel over two legs in Group B3 in September and October. Due to \u201coperational challenges\u201d, the FAI opted to stage Ireland\u2019s \u2018home\u2019 leg in Backa Topola, Serbia, with no spectators in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On September 27th, Ireland will go Debrecen in Hungary for Israel\u2019s \u2018home\u2019 fixture. On Wednesday, Uefa confirmed the match at Nagyerdei Stadion would be open to spectators, however, the FAI will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/08\/12\/fai-will-not-seek-ticket-allocation-after-israel-announce-game-in-hungary-will-be-open-to-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/08\/12\/fai-will-not-seek-ticket-allocation-after-israel-announce-game-in-hungary-will-be-open-to-fans\/\">not seek an allocation of tickets<\/a> for Irish fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Friday, the FAI confirmed season-ticket holders will be offered a refund to the value of the Ireland-Israel fixture in Serbia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The statement read: \u201cThe Football Association of Ireland has begun the process of contacting all 2026 Ireland MNT (men\u2019s national team) season-ticket holders regarding the 2026-27 Uefa Nations League fixture against Israel on Sunday, October 4th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWith the fixture moved to a behind-closed-doors setting in Serbia due to operational challenges, season-ticket holders are being offered the value of that fixture, either in the form of an account credit towards a season-ticket renewal in 2027 or a monetary refund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Season-ticket holders are to receive an email from the association containing a link to a short questionnaire in which they can state their preference as to how they wish receive the refund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The questionnaire must be completed by Wednesday, September 30th. If a season-ticket holder fails to submit their questionnaire by that date, the refund will automatically be issued by way of an account credit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIn addition, all season-ticket holders will automatically receive two loyalty points,\u201d the FAI statement said, adding: \u201cThe association thanks all season-ticket holders for their patience and continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) will refund season-ticket holders the value of the Republic of Ireland\u2019s Nations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13446,4700,61,60,59269,43,1842],"class_list":["post-593121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-football-association-of-ireland-fai","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nations-league","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593121","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=593121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}