Women's World Cup. Portugal starts access play-off in Northern Ireland

A women's Portuguese football team plays today with Northern Ireland in Larne, the first hand of the first play-off access to the 2027 World Cup, starting at 19:00.

In the race that will take place in Brazil, between June 24th and July 25th of next year, Francisco Neto then receives the Irish in Portimão, in a fight scheduled for Tuesday at 19:15.

The Portuguese team seeks access to the second round of play-off, which has games scheduled for November 26th and December 5th and will measure forces, in case of clearance, with the winner of the conflict between Croatia and Iceland.

In the two meetings with Northern Ireland, Portugal will play embezzled from Kika Nazareth, a player of FC Barcelona, who is injured and has not entered the call list.

Portugal came to play-off by winning Group B3, in which it added five wins and a defeat, before Finland, Slovakia and Latvia, on a path guided by the performances of Benfica's former football player, who added six goals and three assists.

Northern Ireland, which never competed in any World Cup, was third ranked in Group B2, with two victories and four defeats, behind Switzerland and Turkey and just ahead of Malta.

The whole of the 'quinas' seeks to repeat the unprecedented presence in the World Cup of 2023, in Australia and New Zealand, where it fell into the group phase, losing with the Netherlands (0-1), winning Vietnam (2-0) and stalling with the United States (0-0).

Under the command of Francisco Neto, Portugal also marked presence in the last three Europeans (2017, 2022 and 2025), in which it was also always eliminated in the group phase.

The meeting between Northern Ireland and Portugal, from the first hand of the first clearance play-off for the World Cup of 2027, takes place from 19:00 at Inver Park in Larne, with the arbitration of Romanian Iuliana Demetrescu.