BBC Sport NI is to livestream Linfield’s Uefa Convention League Play-off first leg sport towards Shelbourne at Tolka Park on Thursday, 21 August.
Protection of the match between final season’s League of Eire winners and Irish Premiership champions on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport web site will start at 19:40 BST.
The second leg of the tie will likely be staged at Windsor Park the next week, with a spot within the profitable league section of the competitors the prize on supply for the winners.
The groups have already met in European competitors this time period, having been paired collectively within the first spherical of Champions League qualifying in July.
Shelbourne ran out 2-1 mixture victors on that event, profitable the primary leg 1-0 at Tolka Park, adopted by a 1-1 draw at Windsor Park.
Since dropping into the Uefa Convention League, Linfield have seen off Zalgiris of Lithuania and Vikingur of the Faroe Islands within the second and third qualifying rounds of that competitors.
Have been they to beat their Irish Premier Division opponents, David Healy’s facet would emulate the achievement of Larne, who turned the primary Irish League facet to progress to the group or league levels of a significant European competitors final season.
After defeating Linfield, Shelbourne misplaced to Qarabag of Azerbaijan within the Champions League second qualifying spherical after which fell to Croatian outfit Rijeka within the Europa League third qualifying spherical.
