{"id":25085,"date":"2026-01-27T01:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scotland-to-face-ivory-coast-at-evertons-hill-dickinson-stadium\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:17:21","slug":"scotland-to-face-ivory-coast-at-evertons-hill-dickinson-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scotland-to-face-ivory-coast-at-evertons-hill-dickinson-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland to face Ivory Coast at Everton&#8217;s Hill Dickinson Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Steve Clarke&#8217;s Scotland will face the Ivory Coast for the first time at English top-flight club Everton&#8217;s Hill Dickinson Stadium on 31 March as part of their World Cup preparations.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The match, which will kick off at 19:30 BST, will take place three days after the Scots host Japan at Hampden. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clarke&#8217;s side, who clinched their place at this summer&#8217;s finals by dramatically topping their qualifying group, will also take on Curacao in Glasgow on 30 May<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland open their World Cup group against Haiti in Boston on 14 June, with Morocco and Brazil to follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0lxe2wjk48o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Clarke&#8217;s Scotland will face the Ivory Coast for the first time at English top-flight club Everton&#8217;s Hill Dickinson Stadium on 31 March as part of their World Cup preparations. The match, which will kick off at 19:30 BST, will take place three days after the Scots host Japan at Hampden. Clarke&#8217;s side, who clinched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25087,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25085\/revisions\/25087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}