{"id":546925,"date":"2026-03-26T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546925\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:53:09","slug":"2026-world-cup-european-playoffs-live-updates-highlights-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546925\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 World Cup European playoffs: Live updates, highlights, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 26, 2026, 02:50 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>The final spots for the 2026 <a data-league-guid=\"34f478c4-cf9a-35da-abd5-33db021e09d2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/FIFA.WORLD\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> will be decided this month. In Europe, several matches will determine which teams are one step closer to qualifying for this summer&#8217;s tournament in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the UEFA matches that will be played Thursday: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/465\/turkiye\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T\u00fcrkiye<\/a> vs. <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"878c1326-c43e-bd15-d2eb-e5dbb1cc4cda\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Romania<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"14608173-473c-c347-d753-e45fe20730f5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=450\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Czechia<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/476\/republic-of-ireland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Republic of Ireland<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"23dd2d21-d64c-2f6e-92e8-bf5e6ea92048\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=479\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denmark<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/463\/north-macedonia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Macedonia<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e5383473-2c2c-672e-5c37-253cfce49818\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=162\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/586\/northern-ireland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Ireland<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d0622ec1-4824-12c0-43a3-e7a31784d64d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=471\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poland<\/a> vs. <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"1a802e32-0a5f-617f-0cbe-d25a5b9bef62\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=585\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albania<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"93a13f40-2458-9683-d43a-8e39745cb2fd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=468\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slovakia<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/18272\/kosovo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kosovo<\/a>, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"25ccbb22-53f2-8634-dcdd-cad4b43b3bb5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=457\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/466\/sweden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sweden<\/a>, and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8185a878-0157-7fe7-9fa8-f1cb3812476b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=578\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/452\/bosnia-and-herzegovina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy all the live updates from today&#8217;s matches!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 26, 2026, 02:50 PM ET The final spots for the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be decided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":{"0":"post-546925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}