Republic of Ireland's bid to qualify for EURO 2025 has been made even more difficult after being drawn in the same group as England, Sweden and France.

Sweden and France are regarded as two of the World's top teams, while England are the reigning European Champions and reached the World Cup final in Australia last year.

The top two sides in the group will qualify automatically for next summer's tournament, while the third and fourth placed teams will be forced to try and qualify via the play-off route.

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Head coach Eileen Gleeson has backed the Girls in Green to go toe-to-toe with the three giants that are all ranked inside the top five in the World, although the new boss did admit that "It is probably the hardest group any Irish team has ever been placed into in a draw."

Gleeson's comments have been echoed by supporters on social media, who all gave their reaction to being drawn into what is already being called the 'group of death.'

"Ireland got the worst group and with England couldn’t get any worse !! . I wanted Ireland at the euros this time!!" said one fan.

"England Republic of Ireland and Sweden drawing the same group for womens euros 2025, I feel pretty hurt," said another supporter.

"Oh the euros really set up Ireland; didn’t they?" said another X user.

"Ireland's women's team simply cannot get a favourable draw in any tournament lmao, literally against the 3rd, 4th, and 5th ranked teams in the world for euros qualifying," wrote another user.

What should give Irish fans cause for optimism however is the fact that fans from the other three Nations aren't exactly thrilled to be coming up against Katie McCabe and co. One supporter said that it was "a stinker of a group," with another commenting "Wow I think that’s tough."

One positive from the tough draw is that Ireland will almost certainly be playing some if not all of their European home qualifiers at the Aviva Stadium such will be the demand when the likes of France, Sweden and especially England come to town.

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