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.

2006 All-Ireland Football Final
Event2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Kerry Mayo
4-15
(27)		 3-5
(14)
Date17 September 2006
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereeBrian Crowe (Cavan)[1][2]
Attendance82,289

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 all the way back to their All-Ireland football title winning team of 1951.[3] They failed yet again, having lost to Kerry in 2004 and 1997, Meath in 1996 and Cork in 1989.[4]

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".[5]

Final
Kerry4-15 - 3-05Mayo
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
Attendance: 82,289
Referee: Brian Crowe (Cavan)
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

Team:
Diarmuid Murphy (GK)
Marc Ó Sé
Michael McCarthy
Tom O'Sullivan
Tomás Ó Sé
Séamus Moynihan (0-1)
Aidan O'Mahony (0-2)
Darragh Ó Sé
Tommy Griffin
Seán O'Sullivan (0-01)
Declan O'Sullivan (1-2) (Capt.)
Paul Galvin (0-1)
Colm Cooper (1-2)
Kieran Donaghy (1-2)
Mike Frank Russell (0-2)

Substitutes:
Eoin Brosnan (1-1)
Darran O'Sullivan
Bryan Sheehan (0-1)
Éamonn Fitzmaurice
B. Guiney

Half-time:
3-08 - 3-02

Competition:
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
(Final)

Date:
15.30 BST
Sunday, 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:
David Clarke (GK)
Dermot Geraghty
David Heaney
Keith Higgins
Aidan Higgins
James Nallen
Peadar Gardiner
Ronan McGarrity
Pat Harte (1-0)
Billy Joe Padden (0-1)
Ger Brady
Alan Dillon
Kevin O'Neill (2-0)
Conor Mortimer (0-3)
Ciarán McDonald (0-1)

Substitutes:
David Brady
Trevor Mortimer
Barry Moran
Aidan Kilcoyne
Andy Moran


References
  1. 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.
  2. Moynihan, Michael (2 September 2006). "All-Ireland football final referee named". Irish Examiner.
  3. McGee, Eugene (6 February 2006). "First signs that Mayo might be set to turn back the clock". Irish Independent. Retrieved 6 February 2006.
  4. "All-Ireland final match-tracker". RTÉ. 17 September 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  5. Breheny, Martin (9 August 2022). "Five of the worst All-Ireland football finals since 1972". Irish Independent.
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