Ireland Boys Under-16s finished up their 2025/26 season with three wins out of three in their development tournament in Finland.

It took penalties to separate Ireland and Iceland after the two teams played out an entertaining 3-3 game in normal time before winning the shootout 5-4.

Corey Fay, who had hit a 13-minute hat-trick against Finland in the previous game, gave Ireland the lead after 31 minutes when he intercepted a pass from the goalkeeper and showed neat feet to round him and tap home.

Ciaran Daly made it 2-0 four minutes into the second half after Bobby Zeller played an excellent through ball to put him through on goal for the finish.

Iceland struck back through Bjarki Hrafan Garðarsson in the 66^th minute only for Archie Quinn to scored his third goal in three games to restore Ireland’s two goal advantage after finding the corner with a smart finish.

Not to be perturbed, Iceland hit Ireland with two quick fire goals Garðarsson halved the deficit with nine minutes left on the clock for 2-3 before Emil Gautason completed the comeback five minutes later.

That resulted with the game going to penalties. Iceland missed their first penalty with Charlie McGarvey getting down to his left to make the one handed save. Ireland were flawless from then on leaving Zeller to settle the game for an Irish win.

Iceland: Jóhannsson, Kristmundsson, Elmarsson, Pórðarson, Daníelsson, Línberg, Halldór, Garðarsson, Brynjarsson, Breiðal, Zumbergs. Substitutes: Halldórsson, Bjornsson, Johannesson, Gautason, Matus, Freysson, Takao, Nói, Gíslason, Viðarsson, Hafporsson.

Ireland: Bryne (McGarvey, 46’), Nolan (Fitzsimons, 61), Marshall, Corbally (Gunning, 61), Afonin (McKeon, 77’), Zeller, O’Dwyer (Aliyev, 77’), Phillips (Devereux-Lynch, 77’), Daly (Quinn, 61’), Fay, Kelly (Rascau, 61’).