Association Football
- January 1 – Australia officially leaves the Oceania Football Confederation and joins the Asian Football Confederation
International competitions
- 2006 African Cup of Nations – Egypt
- 2006 FIFA World Cup – Italy
- 2006 FIFA Club World Cup – Sport Club Internacional
- Copa Libertadores 2006 – Sport Club Internacional
- UEFA Champions League 2005-06 – FC Barcelona
Domestic competitions
- Argentina Primera División – Boca Juniors (Clausura)
- Brazil Campeonato Brasileiro – São Paulo FC
- England Premiership – Chelsea
- France Ligue 1 – Lyon
- Germany Bundesliga – Bayern Munich
- Italy Serie A – Inter Milan awarded title after initial winners Juventus were stripped of the title due to involvement in the 2006 Serie A match fixing scandal.
- Spain La Liga – FC Barcelona
- Portugal Liga – FC Porto
Read more about this topic: 2006 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words association and/or football:
“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)