2006 AFL draft
Draft for the Australian Football League
title: "2006 AFL draft" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["australian-football-league-draft", "2006-afl-season", "november-2006-sports-events-in-australia", "2000s-in-sport-in-melbourne", "2006-in-victoria-(state)", "australian-rules-football-in-victoria-(state)", "sport-in-melbourne", "sports-competitions-in-victoria-(state)", "organised-events-in-melbourne"] description: "Draft for the Australian Football League" topic_path: "sports" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_AFL_draft" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Draft for the Australian Football League ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox sports draft"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 2006 AFL draft |
| image | File:Bryce Gibbs 2017.1.jpg |
| caption | Bryce Gibbs was the number one selection in the 2006 national draft |
| date | 24 November 2006 |
| sponsor | National Australia Bank |
| league | AFL |
| first | Bryce Gibbs () |
| prev | 2005 |
| next | 2007 |
| :: |
| name = 2006 AFL draft | image = File:Bryce Gibbs 2017.1.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Bryce Gibbs was the number one selection in the 2006 national draft | date = 24 November 2006 | time = | location = | sponsor = National Australia Bank | network = | league = AFL | first = Bryce Gibbs () | prev = 2005 | next = 2007 The 2006 AFL draft is a recent national draft of the Australian Football League. The AFL draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.
The 2006 AFL draft is noted as being the second "superdraft" since the draft system's inception, due to the wealth and depth of talent.
The AFL pre-season draft, rookie draft and trade week also occurred during the 2006/07 Australian Football League off-season.
Trades
Trade week was held from 9 to 13 October 2006.
::data[format=table title="Table of trades in 2006"] | Clubs involved | Trade | Ref | | | | |
| | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | to | to | | | | | | | | | | to | to | | | | | | | | | | to | to | | | | | | | | | | to | to | | | | | | | | | | to (from Richmond) | to (from Fremantle) | | | | | | | | | | to (from Fremantle) | to (from Collingwood) | | | | | | | | | | to (from Richmond) | to (from Collingwood) | | | | | | | | | | to | to | | | | | | | | | | to | to | | | | | | | | | ::
2006 national draft
The 2006 national draft was held on 25 November 2006. Carlton Football Club had the first selection, choosing Bryce Gibbs from the Glenelg Football Club. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Gibbscarlton.jpg" caption="Bryce Gibbs, pick 1"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Lachlan_Hansen_2017.jpg" caption="Lachlan Hansen, pick 3"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Matthew_Leuenberger.jpg" caption="Matthew Leuenberger, pick 4"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Travis_Boak_2018.1.jpg" caption="Travis Boak, pick 5"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Joel_Selwood_playing_for_Geelong.JPG" caption="Joel Selwood, pick 7"] ::
::data[format=table title="Table of national draft selections"]
Rookie elevations
::data[format=table title="{{nowrap|Table of rookie elevations}}"]
| Player | Club |
|---|---|
| :: |
2007 pre-season draft
::data[format=table title="Table of pre-season draft selections"]
| Pick | Player | Club | Recruited from | Notes | Club | League |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AFL | |||||
| 2 | AFL | |||||
| 3 | Gippsland Power | TAC Cup | ||||
| 4 | Norwood | SANFL | ||||
| 5 | AFL | redrafted | ||||
| 6 | AFL | |||||
| 7 | AFL | |||||
| 8 | AFL | |||||
| 9 | AFL | |||||
| :: |
2007 rookie draft
::data[format=table title="Table of rookie draft selections"]
References
References
- (26 November 2006). "AFL draft hailed as strongest ever".
- (9 October 2006). "Everitt and Akermanis head trading frenzy". [[Fairfax Media]].
- (21 October 2008). "St Kilda list & Football Department changes". [[Telstra Media.
- (21 August 2018). "Trade week factbox". [[Fairfax Media]].
- (1 June 2010). "Jason Akermanis, a colourful life". Fairfax Media.
- (13 October 2014). "Collingwood's trade history". [[Telstra Media]].
- (14 October 2006). "Swans snare Spida". Fairfax Media.
- "2006 National Draft selections".
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