Afternoon everyone and welcome to The Irish Times’ live blog for Georgia v Republic of Ireland. Muireann Duffy here to take you through this Euro 2025 Round 1 playoff fixture.
Eileen Gleeson’s team are in Tbilisi for the first leg of this encounter. Kick-off at Mikheil Meskhi II Stadium is at 5pm Irish time and the game will be televised live on RTÉ 2.
Next Tuesday, Gerogia will make the return trip to Tallaght Stadium (kick-off at 7.30pm). The winner on aggregate after the two games will go on to play the winner of Wales and Slovakia in the next two-leg round.
The winner from that second set of games will earn a spot at next year’s Euros in Switzerland.
Going off recent results against Georgia Ireland will be confident heading into this evening’s fixture, but with a spot at their first Euros on the line there’s no room for complacency.
Follow along as we take you through the build up and live updates from the match.
How’s our record against Georgia? In a word – glowing.
We faced the Georgians in Group A of the qualifiers for last year’s World Cup. Both the home game in November 2021 and the away leg the following June ended resoundingly in our favour.
Ireland played out an 11-0 win at Tallaght Stadium before taking a 9-0 away victory in Gori.
No wonder the squad look so jolly ahead of this evening’s game.