2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final


The 2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 119th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Match

Summary

Kerry won by 13 points, the widest winning margin in an All-Ireland SFC final since 1978.
Mayo were hoping to bridge a gap that stretched back to their All-Ireland SFC title winning team of 1951. They failed yet again, having lost to Kerry in 2004 and 1997, Meath in 1996 and Cork in 1989.
Mayo were 2–4 down with no score after 13 minutes; the Kerry total of 4–15 was the highest in a final since Dublin's 5–12 total against Armagh in the 1977 final; in 2022, Martin Breheny listed it among "five of the worst" All-Ireland SFC finals since 1972, commenting: "Kerry's awesome scoring power against a weak Mayo defence robbed the final of a competitive edge, the basic requirement to make a game entertaining".

Details

Kerry
Green and Yellow Shirts/White shorts/Green Socks		4–15 – 3–5
Mayo
Green and Red shirts/White shorts/Red socks
Manager: Jack O'Connor
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Team:

1 Diarmuid Murphy

2 Marc Ó Sé

3 Michael McCarthy

4 Tom O'Sullivan

5 Tomás Ó Sé

6 Séamus Moynihan

7 Aidan O'Mahony

8 Darragh Ó Sé

9 Tommy Griffin

10 Seán O'Sullivan

11 Declan O'Sullivan

12 Paul Galvin

13 Colm Cooper

14 Kieran Donaghy

15 Mike Frank Russell
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Substitutes:

17 Eoin Brosnan for T. Ó Sé

18 Darran O'Sullivan for S. O'Sullivan

19 Éamonn Fitzmaurice for T. Griffin

20 Bryan Sheehan for M. F. Russell

22 Brendan Guiney for A. O'Mahony
Half-time:
3-8 - 3-2
Competition:
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

Date:
15.30 BST
Sunday, 17 September 2006
Venue:
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance:
82,289
Referee:
Brian Crowe

Match rules:
70 minutes.
Replay if scores still level.
Maximum of 5 substitutions.		Manager: Mickey Moran
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Team:

1 David Clarke

2 Dermot Geraghty

3 David Heaney

4 Keith Higgins

5 Aidan Higgins

6 James Nallen

7 Peadar Gardiner

8 Ronan McGarrity

9 Pat Harte

10 Billy Joe Padden

11 Ger Brady

12 Alan Dillon

13 Kevin O'Neill

14 Conor Mortimer

15 Ciarán McDonald
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Substitutes:

David Brady for J. Nallen

Trevor Mortimer for A. Dillon

Barry Moran for K. O'Neill

Aidan Kilcoyne for B. J. Padden

Andy Moran for P. Gardiner

;Kerry subs not used