Football match
| Event | 2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 17 September 2006 | ||||||
| Venue | Croke Park, Dublin | ||||||
| Referee | Brian Crowe (Cavan) | ||||||
| Attendance | 82,289 | ||||||
| ← 2005 2007 → | |||||||
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.
Kerry won by 13 points, the widest winning margin in an All-Ireland final since 1978.
Mayo were hoping to bridge a gap that stretched back to their All-Ireland football 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".
Match details
Final| Kerry | 4–15 – 3–05 | Mayo |
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| C Cooper, K Donaghy, D O'Sullivan 1-2 each, E Brosnan 1-1, M F Russell, A O'Mahony 0-2 each, S Moynihan, P Galvin, S O'Sullivan 0-1 each, | Report | K O'Neill 2-0, P Harte 1-0, C Mortimer 0-3, B J Padden, C McDonald 0-1 each |
Kerry
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Mayo
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| Kerry Green and Yellow Shirts/White shorts/Green Socks |
4–15 – 3–5 (final score after 70 minutes) |
Mayo Green and Red shirts/White shorts/Red socks |
| Manager: Jack O'Connor
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Half-time: Competition: Date: Venue: Attendance: Referee: Match rules: |
Manager: Mickey Moran
Team:
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References
- Moran, Seán (2 September 2006). "Cavan's Brian Crowe will referee the All-Ireland football final between Kerry and Mayo in a fortnight's time". The Irish Times.
- Moynihan, Michael (2 September 2006). "All-Ireland football final referee named". Irish Examiner.
- McGee, Eugene (6 February 2006). "First signs that Mayo might be set to turn back the clock". Irish Independent. Retrieved 6 February 2006.
- "All-Ireland final match-tracker". RTÉ. 17 September 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- Breheny, Martin (9 August 2022). "Five of the worst All-Ireland football finals since 1972". Irish Independent.
| All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | |||||
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| Beginning of Sam Maguire |
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| 80-minute experiment |
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| Qualifiers and quarter-finals era |
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| Kerry county football team matches | |||||||
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| All-Ireland SFC finals |
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| Mayo county football team matches | |
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| All-Ireland SFC finals | |
| Connacht SFC finals |
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