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2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Field	Value
title	2006 All-Ireland Football Championship final
event	[2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship](2006-all-ireland-senior-football-championship)
team1	Kerry
team1association	[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg	40px]]
team1score	4–15
(27)
team2	Mayo
team2association	[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg	40px]]
team2score	3–5
(14)
date	17 September 2006
stadium	Croke Park
city	Dublin
referee	Brian Crowe (Cavan)
attendance	82,289
previous	[2005](2005-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final)
next	[2007](2007-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final)

(27) (14) 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

Manager: Jack O'Connor		Manager: Mickey Moran

;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

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.
(17 September 2006). "All-Ireland final match-tracker". RTÉ.
Breheny, Martin. (9 August 2022). "Five of the worst All-Ireland football finals since 1972". Irish Independent.

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