2006 A-League Grand Final

2006 A-League Grand Final
Event 2005–06 A-League
Sydney FC Central Coast Mariners
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Date 5 March 2006
Venue Aussie Stadium, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Man of the Match Dwight Yorke, Sydney FC
Referee Mark Shield
Attendance 41,689

The 2006 A-League Grand Final took place at Aussie Stadium in Sydney on 5 March 2006. Sydney FC had the home ground advantage after beating Adelaide United over 2 semifinal legs. Sydney FC would eventually go on to take the honours of being crowned the first ever A-League Champions, defeating the Central Coast Mariners. Steve Corica scored the only and winning goal in the 62nd minute after a pass from Sydney captain Dwight Yorke.

Route to the final

  Semi Finals Preliminary Final Grand Final
    L1 L2    
    February 10 & 17                        
1  Adelaide United 2 1     5 March
2  Sydney FC 2 2     26 February          Sydney FC 1
       Adelaide United 0      Central Coast Mariners 0
  February 12 & 19      Central Coast Mariners 1  
3  Central Coast Mariners 1 1
4  Newcastle Jets 0 1  

Match

Details

Sydney FC
Central Coast Mariners
GK 1 Australia Clint Bolton
DF 3 Australia Alvin Ceccoli
DF 4 Australia Mark Rudan 72'
DF 8 Australia Matthew Bingley
MF 10 Australia Steve Corica
FW 11 Australia Sasho Petrovski 90'
MF 12Australia David Carney
MF 14Australia Andrew Packer
MF 15Northern Ireland Terry McFlynn
DF 17 Australia Jacob Timpano 81'
FW 19Trinidad and Tobago Dwight Yorke (c)
Substitutes:
GK 20Australia Justin Pasfield
DF 2 Australia Iain Fyfe 72'
MF 7Australia Robbie Middleby 90'
FW 23 Australia Ruben Zadkovich 81'
Manager:
Germany Pierre Littbarski


Joe Marston Medal: Trinidad and Tobago Dwight Yorke

Assistant Referees: Nathan Gibson, Ben Wilson.
Fourth Official: Matthew Breeze.
GK 20 Australia Danny Vukovic
DF 2 Republic of Ireland Wayne O'Sullivan
MF 4 Australia Noel Spencer (c) 57'
DF 5Australia Michael Beauchamp
MF 6Germany Andre Gumprecht
DF 8 Australia Dean Heffernan
MF 10Australia Tom Pondeljak
MF 11Australia Damien Brown  68'
FW 12Scotland Stewart Petrie  73'
FW 15 Australia Andrew Clark
DF 18 Australia Alex Wilkinson  84'
Substitutes:
GK 30 Australia Matthew Trott
DF 17Australia Matthew Osman  68'
MF 3Australia Paul O'Grady  84'
FW 19Australia Adam Kwasnik  73'
Manager:
Scotland Lawrie McKinna


A-League
2006 Champions
Australia
Sydney FC
First Title

Statistics

Sydney Central Coast
Attempts at goal 15 15
Attempts on target 6 5
Attempts off target 9 10
Attempts - Woodwork 0 0
Keeper saves 4 3
Ball possession 50% 50%
Corners 4 9
Fouls committed 20 16
Offsides 4 3
Yellow cards 0 1
Red cards 0 0

See also

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