Windsor Park to host NI v Republic women for first time-ZoomTech News


Northern Eire’s final girls’s fixture at Windsor Park was a 5-0 defeat by England in April 2022

Northern Eire will play their ultimate Girls’s Nations League match towards the Republic of Eire on 5 December at Windsor Park.

The staff historically performs residence matches at Crusaders’ Seaview.

NI have performed on the redeveloped Windsor Park on two events, in a win over Latvia in September 2021 and a 5-0 loss to England in April 2022.

The Republic of Eire have gained Group B1 however Northern Eire can nonetheless end second behind their neighbours.

The reverse fixture between the edges in September was the primary girls’s worldwide to be performed on the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, the place the hosts ran out 3-0 winners in entrance of a crowd of 35,994.

Northern Eire’s males’s staff play their residence fixtures at Windsor Park, which boasts a capability of 18,500.

“To be again at Windsor Park for a significant senior girls’s worldwide is testomony to the expansion of the ladies’s sport in Northern Eire,” mentioned supervisor Tanya Oxtoby, whose aspect drew 1-1 with Hungary at Seaview on Tuesday.

“For me, it is going to be notably particular to handle the staff there for the primary time. Not solely do I really feel that the gamers will profit from this however our good followers will make it an environment to assist the staff carry out to its peak.”

Each groups have performed of their first main tournaments up to now 18 months as Northern Eire featured at Euro 2022 and the Republic of Eire debuted on the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in July.

Angela Platt, director of girls’s soccer on the Irish FA, added: “Windsor Park is the house of soccer in Northern Eire. It’s a place we’re happy with and one that’s befitting of this fixture.

“We’re trying ahead to welcoming our neighbours from the Republic of Eire for what we hope will likely be a unbelievable contest.

“It would even be a possibility to exhibit to everybody how far the ladies’s sport has come right here and the way it continues to develop throughout the island of Eire.”


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