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
KerryGreen and Yellow Shirts/White shorts/Green Socks4–15 – 3–5(final score after 70 minutes)MayoGreen and Red shirts/White shorts/Red socksManager: Jack O'Connor
Team: 1 Diarmuid Murphy (GK) 2 Marc Ó Sé 3 Michael McCarthy 4 Tom O'Sullivan 5 Tomás Ó Sé 6 Séamus Moynihan (0–1) 7 Aidan O'Mahony (0–2) 8 Darragh Ó Sé 9 Tommy Griffin 10 Seán O'Sullivan (0–1) 11 Declan O'Sullivan (1–2) (c) 12 Paul Galvin (0–1) 13 Colm Cooper (1–2) 14 Kieran Donaghy (1–2) 15 Mike Frank Russell (0–2)
Substitutes: 17 Eoin Brosnan (1–1) for T. Ó Sé 18 Darran O'Sullivan for S. O'Sullivan 19 Éamonn Fitzmaurice for T. Griffin 20 Bryan Sheehan (0–1) for M. F. Russell 22 Brendan Guiney for A. O'MahonyHalf-time:3-8 - 3-2
Competition:All-Ireland Senior Football Championship(Final)
Date:15.30 BSTSunday, 17 September 2006
Venue:Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 82,289
Referee:Brian Crowe(Cavan)
Match rules:70 minutes.Replay if scores still level.Maximum of 5 substitutions.Manager: Mickey Moran
Team: 1 David Clarke (GK) 2 Dermot Geraghty 3 David Heaney (c) 4 Keith Higgins 5 Aidan Higgins 6 James Nallen 7 Peadar Gardiner 8 Ronan McGarrity 9 Pat Harte (1–0) 10 Billy Joe Padden (0–1) 11 Ger Brady 12 Alan Dillon 13 Kevin O'Neill (2–0) 14 Conor Mortimer (0–3) 15 Ciarán McDonald (0–1)
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 16 K. Cremin 21 M. Lyons 23 R. O'Connor 24 P. Reidy 25 P. O'Connor 26 K. Young 27 R. Hussey 28 K. O'Leary 29 A. Mac Gearailt 30 A. O'Connell
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