Sammy McIlroy's team will face Armenia in Yerevan

Northern Ireland's European Championship qualifying match in Armenia is to be shown live on BBC NI.

The game in Yerevan will kick-off at 1400 GMT.

Ed Smith, Editor Sport, said: "We are delighted to get these rights because we appreciate few fans will be able to travel out to the game.

"Having televised the opening two qualifiers with Spain and Ukraine, it is good to keep the live sequence of Euro matches going on the BBC."

Northern Ireland are seeking their first win in Group Six having lost 3-0 away to Spain and drawn 0-0 at home to Ukraine.

Sammy McIlroy's men are bottom of the group, level on points with the Armenians who also picked up a point at home to Ukraine.

The Northern Ireland squad, along with Roy Millar's Under-21s, are due to fly to Armenia by chartered aircraft on Thursday morning.

Some doubts had been expressed about whether the matches would go ahead because of the war in Iraq. Baghdad is only an hour's flight from Yerevan.

But so far Uefa have not made any announcement on the likelihood of any of this weekend's being postponed due to the military conflict.

Northern Ireland's panel has been hit by the withdrawals of Roy Carroll, Steve Jones, Colin Murdock, Danny Griffin and Gerry Taggart.

Armenia go into Saturday's game with a new coach, Romanian native Mihai Stoica, who recently took over from Argentinian Oscar Lopez.