High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for Africa. 51 teams took part (only Djibouti and Comoros did not enter), competing for 5 World Cup places.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 FIFA World Cup CONMEBOL – OFC qualification play-off was a two-legged home-and-away tie between the winners of the Oceania qualifying tournament, Australia, and the fifth-placed team from the South American qualifying tournament, Uruguay.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 86th Emperor`s Cup had been held between September 17, 2006 and January 1, 2007. The previous season`s winners Urawa Red Diamonds defended the Cup and completed the league-cup double.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 AFC Champions League was the 25th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 4th edition under the current AFC Champions League title. On November 1, 2006, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (South Korea) defeated Al-Karamah (Syria) 2-0 in South Korea. In the return leg, Al-Karamah beat the visitors 2-1 in Syria. Therefore, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors won the AFC Champions League title 3-2 on aggregate. It was their first ever title. Jeonbuk also became the first team in history to have won the Champions League before the national title (winning their first K-League championship three years later, in 2009). Al-Ittihad qualified automatically to the quarter-finals as Cup holders.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado at Boulder in the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The previous year`s team won the Big 12 North Conference. That marked the fourth Big 12 North championship for the Buffs in the past 5 years. The team has its 23rd new head coach Dan Hawkins. The Sporting News gave out the only A+ to Colorado in the category of coaching hire. The Buffaloes will play their home games in Folsom Field.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 RBS 6 Nations Championship was the seventh series of the rugby union Six Nations Championship to be held since the competition expanded in 2000 to include Italy. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the 112th series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the Third Round of CONCACAF, the 12 winners of the Second Round were divided in 3 groups of 4 teams each. Teams in each group would play against each other home-and-away, and the two teams with most points in each group would advance to the Fourth Round.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 Tri Nations Series, an annual rugby union competition between the national teams of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, marked the tenth anniversary of the original competition. With three rounds still remaining, the New Zealand All Blacks were assured of first place in the competition after their victory over Australia on 19 August, their 21st consecutive home win.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 State of Origin series was the 25th year that the annual best-of-three series of interstate rugby league football matches contested between the Queensland and New South Wales representative teams was played under `State of Origin` selection rules. It was decided in three matches which drew a total attendance of 180,074. Queensland won the series 2-1, their first outright series victory since 2001 and the first in their record-breaking run of six consecutive series wins.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the First Round, 42 teams were paired 2-by-2 and played knockout matches home-and-away. The 21 winners would advance to the Second Round where they would meet the other 9 teams that qualify directly to the Second Round. Those teams are the 5 teams that qualified for the 2002 World Cup Finals (Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia) and the 4 highest-ranking teams in the June 25, 2003 FIFA world rankings (Congo DR, Cote d`Ivoire, Egypt, and Morocco).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the First Round of CONCACAF, the 22 lowest-ranked teams played home-and-away matches to determine the 11 teams who would progress to the Second Round of competition.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Play in Group E of the 2006 FIFA World Cup completed on 22 June 2006. Italy won the group, and advanced to the second round, along with Ghana. The Czech Republic and the United States failed to advance.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 Victorian Football League (VFL) is a semi-professional Australian Rules Football competition featuring 12 teams from Victoria and one team from Tasmania.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 1 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Andorra, Armenia, Czech Republic, Finland, Macedonia and Netherlands, and Romania.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 AFC Women`s Asian Cup was a women`s football tournament for women`s national teams from countries affiliated to the Asian Football Confederation. It was the 15th installment of the AFC Women`s Asian Cup.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 CONCACAF Champions` Cup was the 41st edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions` Cup. The tournament is also a qualifying event for the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup. Thirty-three teams from eighteen football associations took part, starting with the first qualifying games on July 26, 2005.
