{"id":219601,"date":"2025-12-07T04:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219601\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:29:14","slug":"ireland-would-play-group-games-in-middle-of-night-irish-time-if-they-qualify-for-world-cup-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219601\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland would play group games in middle of night Irish time if they qualify for World Cup \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Should the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\">Republic of Ireland<\/a> qualify for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/world-cup\/\">World Cup<\/a> next summer, fans at home will have to get up extra early, or stay awake all night, to see their teams in action in two of the three Group A games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The fixture dates and times have been revealed by Fifa which would see Ireland\u2019s first game against South Korea in Guadalajara played at 9pm local time on Thursday, June 12th, which is 3am in Irish time on Friday, June 13th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland would get a week break before the more sociable time of 5pm Irish time, midday local, for the game against South Africa in Atlanta on Thursday, June 18th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The final game of the group would be played against the hosts Mexico in Mexico City on Thursday, June 24th, at 8pm local time, which is 2am Irish time on Friday, June 25th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland\u2019s place in the tournament is dependent on playoffs in March 2026, where they would have to beat the Czech Republic and the winners of Denmark and North Macedonia to qualify for the tournament in North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><b>Group A fixtures:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><b>June 11\/12th:<\/b> South Korea v Uefa Path D (including Ireland), Guadalajara, 9pm local time (3am Irish time)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><b>June 18th:<\/b> Uefa Path D (including Ireland) v South Africa, Atlanta, 12pm local time (5pm Irish time)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><b>June 24\/25th:<\/b> Uefa Path D (including Ireland) v Mexico, Mexico City, 8pm local time (2am Irish time)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should the Republic of Ireland qualify for the World Cup next summer, fans at home will have to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,388,6634,132,35350],"class_list":{"0":"post-219601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mexico","12":"tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115676405133702361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}