24 teams competed in the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, with two places allocated for the hosts, Japan and the titleholder, Brazil. In the qualification process for the 2006 FIVB World Championship, the Five FIVB confederations were allocated a share of the 22 remaining spots.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CAF Second Round

In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the knockout stage was the second and final stage of the World Cup, following the group stage. The top two teams from each group (16 total) advance to the knockout stage to compete in a single-elimination style tournament. A match was played between the two losing teams of the semi-finals to determine which team finished in third place.Note: match kickoff times are given in local (German) time; this is CEST (UTC+2) during summer time.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CAF Group 3

The CSV qualification for the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for two places at the finals in Japan.

The 2006 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix was the 13th Summer Grand Prix season in ski jumping on plastic. Season began on 5 August 2006 in Hinterzarten, Germany and ended on 3 October 2006 in Oberhof.Other competitive circuits this season included the World Cup and Continental Cup.

2006 FINA World Swimming Championships

The CEV qualification for the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for nine places at the finals in Japan.

2006 FIFI Wild Cup

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (play-off UEFA)

2006 FIFA World Player of the year

The NORCECA qualification for the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for four places at the finals in Japan.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF Preliminary Round

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Group 3

2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship

2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship qualification

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (play-off AFC-CONCACAF)

2006 FIRS Intercontinental Cup

The 2006 FIU Golden Panthers football team represented Florida International University in the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They participated as members of the Sun Belt Conference. The Golden Panthers played their home games in FIU Stadium in Miami, Florida. The team was coached by Don Strock in his fifth and final season as head coach, before resigning at the end of the year. The resignation was precipitated by his team’s brawl with the University of Miami in the seventh week of the season.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Second Round

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Stage Group 7

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Men's 10K

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 4

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Second Stage Group 6

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF third stage

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CONCACAF Second round

2006 FINA Synchronized Swimming World Trophy

2006 FIM Superstock 1000 Cup

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF Fourth Round

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for Oceania. 12 teams took part, competing for a place in the intercontinental play-off against the fifth-placed team from South America. The winner of this play-off qualified for the World Cup.This qualifying tournament also doubled as the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, up to the final play-off stage.

The 2006 FINA Diving World Cup was held in Changshu, China from July 19 to July 23, 2006.

2006 FIVB Men's World Championship squads

The 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship was held in Japan from 17 November to 3 December 2006. Like the previous edition, 24 teams participated in the tournament. Brazil won the Tournament (retaining their championship title), defeating Poland 3:0 in the final match. Bulgaria placed 3rd, defeating Serbia and Montenegro 3:1 in 3rd place match. Polish team dedicated his achievement tragically deceased Polish volleyball player Arkadiusz Golas. This team gave this word at a ceremony awarding medals performing in T-shirts with the number 16 with the words "Golas". In such a shirt it is generally seen on the dance floor.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL–OFC play-off)

2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup squads

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF–AFC play-off)

The 2006 FIU Golden Panthers football team represented Florida International University in the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They participated as members of the Sun Belt Conference. The Golden Panthers played their home games in FIU Stadium in Miami, Florida. The team was coached by Don Strock in his fifth and final season as head coach, before resigning at the end of the year.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Men's 5K

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Group 4

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5

2006 FIVB Men's World Championship

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Stage Group 6

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Second Stage Group 5

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for North, Central America and the Caribbean. A total of 34 teams took part (out of 35 eligible – only Puerto Rico declined to participate), competing for 3.5 places in the World Cup.The qualification process was divided in three stages. In the first stage, the 34 teams were divided in 10 groups of three teams each and two groups of two teams each. Groups with three teams had two rounds, with the best ranked team according to FIFA in each group entering the competition in the second round. In each group, teams were paired 2-by-2 and played home-and-away matches.The 12 winners of the first stage advanced to the second stage, where they were divided into three groups of four 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 Final Round.In the third stage, the six teams were put in a single group, and played against each other home-and-away. The three teams with most points qualified to the World Cup. The fourth placed team advanced to the AFC–CONCACAF play-off against the winner of a play-off between third placed teams in the Third Round of Asia.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 5

The 1st FINA Synchronised Swimming World Trophy was held 2006 in Moscow, Russia. It featured swimmers from 8 nations, swimming in three events: Duet, Team and Free Combination.

To calculate the seeding for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, FIFA used the FIFA World Rankings in combination with performances of national teams in the two previous World Cups.Points were allocated on the basis of 32 for the best achieving of the 32 qualifiers for 2006 FIFA World Cup in each of the five fields considered, down to one for the lowest ranking.The seedings table uses these points obtained from the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the 2002 FIFA World Cup averaged in a 1:2 ratio respectively, added to the average amount of points derived from the World Rankings at three given dates (at ratio 1:1:1), December 2003, December 2004, and November 2005. This generates a view of how well the teams have performed over the last ten years (since the rankings in 2003 include results from eight years previous to that) with a specific focus on how the teams have performed in the FIFA World Cup on previous occasions. Significant differences between this ranking of the teams and the official FIFA rankings at the time of the draw can be seen for Czech Republic, Germany and South Korea (ρ=0.87).

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (play-off CONMEBOL-OFC)

2006 FIRST Robotics Competition season

Corporate sponsorship during the 2006 World Cup has been a major source of revenue for FIFA, but it has also led to criticism for overly commercializing the event and allocating too many game tickets to sponsors, as well as for prohibitive actions against non-sponsor advertising around the stadiums. FIFA has defended its policies by pointing out that all of its profits from the World Cup are invested back into worldwide football.

2006 FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Stage Group 2

2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship qualification (CAVB)

2006 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships

2006 FIFA World Cup seeding

The 11th FINA Synchronised Swimming World Cup was held September 14–17, 2006 in Yokohama, Japan. It featured swimmers from 29 nations, swimming in four events: Solo, Duet, Team and (for the first time) Free Combination.

The 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship was held in Japan from 17 November to 3 December 2006. Like the previous edition, 24 teams participated in the tournament. Brazil won the Tournament (retaining their championship title), defeating Poland 3:0 in the final match. Bulgaria placed 3rd, defeating Serbia and Montenegro 3:1 in 3rd place match. Polish team dedicated his achievement tragically deceased Polish volleyball player Arkadiusz Golas.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Third Round

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - OFC First Round

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Second Stage Group 8

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 2

2006 FIFA world cup

2006 FIU Golden Panthers football

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Women's 25K

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Group 5

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CAF Group 2

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF Second Round

2006 FINA Diving World Cup

2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification

2006 FIM Superstock 1000 Championship season

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships - Women's 25K

2006 FIFA World Player of the Year

2006 FIFA World Cup schedule

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Second Stage Group 1

With most of the senior nations preparing for the World Cup, FIRA organised a "Women ENC XV a side Tournament" for the six leading nations who were not in the Six Nations. While it does not appear to be part of the Women's European Championship sequence, it was very similar to the European Championship, especially the Pool B competitions.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Stage Group 1

2006 FINA World Junior Synchronised Swimming Championships

The AVC qualification for the 2006 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship saw member nations compete for four places at the finals in Japan.

The 2006 FIM Superstock 1000 Cup was the eighth edition of the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, the second held under this name. It was run over ten rounds, starting on 23 April in Valencia, Spain, and ending on 8 October in Magny-Cours, France.The riders' championship was won by Alessandro Polita on a Suzuki GSX-R1000 K6 entered by Celani Suzuki Italia. His main rivals throughout the season were Claudio Corti aboard a Yamaha Team Italia's R1 and two MV Agusta riders, Luca Scassa and Ayrton Badovini.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Fourth Round

2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship qualification (NORCECA)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CONCACAF Third Round

2006 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification (AVC)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CAF Group 1

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Second Stage Group 7

2006 FIU Golden Panthers football season

2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (AVC)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 3

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC – CONCACAF play-off)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CAF First Round

2006 FINA Synchronised Swimming World Cup

2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship qualification (AVC)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CONCACAF third stage

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – OFC First Round

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Third Round

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for South America. 10 teams took part, all in a single group. The rules were very simple: the teams would play against each other in a home-and-away basis, with the four teams with most points qualifying to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The fifth ranked team would have to play-off against the best team from Oceania, with the winner of this play-off also qualifying.

The 2006 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup Final was the seventh edition of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup Final, held from November 17 to November 18, 2006 in Mie, Japan. The competition was officially organized by the International Gymnastics Federation as the last stage of a series of competitions through the 2005–2006 season.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Stage Group 8

The 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification competition was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) — was allocated a certain number of the 32 places at the tournament.

(CONCACAF–AFCplay-off)

2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CAVB)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC - CONCACAF play-off)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Second Stage Group 3

2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship squads

2006 FINA Women's Water Polo World League

2006 FINA World Junior Synchronized Swimming Championships

The 2006 FIRS Intercontinental Cup was the ninth edition of the roller hockey tournament known as the Intercontinental Cup, played in April 1, 2006 at Alcoy, Spain. This edition rolled back to a one-legged final again. FC Barcelona won the cup, defeating Olimpia PC.

2006 FINA Synchronized Swimming World Cup

2006 FINA Short Course World Championships

2006 FIFA World Cup sponsorship

2006 FIU vs Miami football game

2006 FINA World Swimming Championships 25 m

2006 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup Final

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 7

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CONCACAF Preliminary Round

2006 FIS Grand Prix Ski Jumping

The 13th edition of the FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup was held in the Alfréd Hajós Swimming Pool on Margitsziget (Margaret Island) in Budapest, Hungary, from 13 to 18 June 2006.

2006 FIU Golden Panthers football team

To calculate the seeding for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, FIFA used the FIFA World Rankings in combination with performances of national teams in the two previous World Cups.Points were allocated on the basis of 32 for the best achieving of the 32 qualifiers for 2006 FIFA World Cup in each of the five fields considered, down to one for the lowest ranking.The seedings table uses these points obtained from the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the 2002 FIFA World Cup averaged in a 1:2 ratio respectively, added to the average amount of points derived from the World Rankings at three given dates (at ratio 1:1:1), December 2003, December 2004, and November 2005.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships - Men's 10K

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Stage Group 4

The 2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World League was the fifth edition of the annual event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA. After a preliminary round and a semifinal round, the Super Final was held in Athens, Greece.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF First Round

The 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification competition was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) — was allocated a certain number of the 32 places at the tournament. A total of 197 teams entered the qualification process for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, for the first time ever, the defending champion (Brazil) did not qualify automatically. The hosts (Germany) retained their automatic spot. In 1934, the defending champions (Uruguay) declined to participate and the hosts (Italy) had to qualify, but in the tournaments between 1938 and 2002 (inclusive), the hosts and the defending champions had automatic berths.The original distribution of places between the six confederations called for Oceania to be given one full spot in the final 32; this idea was seen as virtually guaranteeing a place in the finals to Australia, by far the strongest footballing nation in the region. This decision was reconsidered in June 2003 and the previous distribution of places between Oceania and South America was restored.The draw for five of the six qualification tournaments took place on 5 December 2003 in Frankfurt, whilst all of the members of the South American federation (CONMEBOL) competed in a single group. Qualification itself began in January 2004.

2006 FIM Superstock 1000 Cup season

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CONCACAF First Round

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for UEFA teams. A total of 51 teams took part, divided in 8 groups – five groups of six teams each and three groups of seven teams each – competing for 13 places in the World Cup. Germany, the hosts, were already qualified, for a total of 14 European places in the tournament. The qualifying process started on 18 August 2004, over a month after the end of UEFA Euro 2004, and ended on 16 November 2005.The teams in each group would play against each other in a home and away basis. The team with the most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup. The runners up would be ranked. For the sake of fairness, in groups with seven teams, results against the seventh placed team were ignored. The two best ranked runners up would also qualify to the World Cup. The other six runners up were drawn into three home and away knock out matches, winners of those matches also qualifying.The race to join hosts Germany at the 2006 FIFA World Cup featured an unlikely winner in Europe, where Ukraine became the first team to qualify, having finished above Turkey, Denmark and Greece in arguably the continent's toughest qualifying group.France had its first successful World Cup qualifying campaign in twenty years – the team had qualified automatically as hosts in 1998 and as defending champions in 2002, then had missed the 1990 and 1994 tournaments.Serbia and Montenegro and Croatia also advanced to Germany at the head of their sections, the former forcing Spain into the play offs in the process. Besides the eight group winners, two teams progressed automatically as best runners up, namely Poland and Sweden while the play offs offered a second chance to six others.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF First Round

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for Africa. 51 teams took part (only Djibouti did not enter), competing for 5 World Cup places.The qualification was composed of two Rounds.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Second Stage Group 2

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 8

2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (NORCECA)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Group 1

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF Third Round

The 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year prize was awarded to the Italian Fabio Cannavaro for the first time. He finished ahead of the retired Midfielder Zinédine Zidane, who won the Golden Ball at the World Cup and the winner of the last FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho in the final round of voting.The female FIFA soccer player of the year was Marta.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC-CONCACAF play-off)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

The I FINA World Youth Swimming Championships, more commonly referred to within the swimming community as the 2006 Youth Worlds, were held August 22–27, 2006, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was the first time the event was held.The meet took place at the Parque Aquático Júlio de Lamare, a traditional Brazilian pool, which the next year would host the water polo competitions of the 2007 Pan American Games. The meet was contested in a 50 m pool (i.e. "long course meters").The participants had to be 17 years or younger on the 31 December 2006 (i.e. born 1989 or later).

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL-OFC play-off)

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships - Men's 25K

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships - Women's 10K

2006 FIFA World Cup venues

2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Stage Group 3

2006 FIFA World cup

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CAF Group 5

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships - Men's 5K

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Round

2006 FINA Men's Water Polo World League

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1

2006 FITA Archery World Cup

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Group 2

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships - Women's 5K

The 10th FINA World Junior Synchronised Swimming Championships was held 2006 in Foshan, China. The synchronised swimmers are aged between 15 and 18 years old, swimming in four events: Solo, Duet, Team and Free combination.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Second Round

The CAVB qualification for the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for two places at the finals in Japan.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL – OFC play-off)

The AVC qualification for the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship saw member nations compete for five places at the finals in Japan.

2006 FIU vs. Miami football game

The 2006 FINA Women's Water Polo World League was the third edition of the annual event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the FINA. Four qualification tournaments were held, before the Super Final took off in Cosenza, Italy from July 26 to July 30, 2006.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC First Round

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for South America. 10 teams took part, all in a single group. The rules were very simple: the teams would play against each other in a home-and-away basis, with the four teams with most points qualifying to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The fifth ranked team would have to play-off against the best team from Oceania, with the winner of this play-off also qualifying. For the first time, Brazil, the defending champion, was required to go through qualification and was not automatically qualified for the tournament.

2006 FIFA World Cup knockout stage

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 1

2006 FIRA Women's European Nations Cup

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifcation - CONCACAF Preliminary Round

2006 FINA Synchronised Swimming World Trophy

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 6

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Women's 5K

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CAF Group 4

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Second Stage Group 4

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification CAF First Round

2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CSV)

(CONMEBOL–OFCplay-off)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for UEFA teams. A total of 51 teams took part, divided in 8 groups – five groups of six teams each and three groups of seven teams each – competing for 13 places in the World Cup. Germany, the hosts, were already qualified, for a total of 14 European places in the tournament.

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for Africa. 51 teams took part (only Djibouti did not enter), competing for 5 World Cup places.The qualification was composed of two Rounds. 9 teams entered the competition directly on the Second Round: 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, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, and Morocco). The other 42 teams were paired 2-by-2 and played knock-out matches home-and-away. The 21 winners would advance to the Second Round.In the Second Round, the 30 teams were divided in 5 groups of 6 teams each. Teams in each group would play against each other in a home-and-away basis. The team with most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup.The competition also constituted the qualification competition for the 2006 African Nations Cup with the top three nations of each group qualifying (except for Egypt, which qualifies as the host nation, the fourth nation in Egypt's group qualifying in Egypt's place).The African qualifying zone saw 4 out of 5 finals places going to World Cup debutants (Angola, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana). Nigeria missed out on a fourth consecutive finals appearance while Cameroon did not reach their fifth consecutive finals.The African zone also featured a group of death — Group 3, which brought together Africa's most frequent World Cup qualifier Cameroon with the two eventual finalists of the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations: Egypt and the Ivory Coast.

2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship qualification (CEV)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for North, Central America and the Caribbean. A total of 34 teams took part (out of 35 eligible – only Puerto Rico declined to participate), competing for 3.5 places in the World Cup.The qualification process was divided in three stages. In the first stage, the 34 teams were divided in 10 groups of three teams each and two groups of two teams each.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC First Round

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Stage Group 5

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - AFC Play-off

The I FINA World Youth Swimming Championships, more commonly referred to within the swimming community as the 2006 Youth Worlds, were held August 22–27, 2006, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This was the first time the event was held.The meet took place at the Parque Aquático Júlio de Lamare, a traditional Brazilian pool, which the next year would host the water polo competitions of the 2007 Pan American Games. The meet was contested in a 50 m pool (i.e.

2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship qualification (CEV)

2006 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)

2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship

2006 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships – Women's 10K

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Play-off

2006 FILA Wrestling World Championships

2006 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship qualification (CSV)

The 2006 FIM Superstock 1000 Cup was the eighth edition of the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, the second held under this name. It was run over ten rounds, starting on 23 April in Valencia, Spain, and ending on 8 October in Magny-Cours, France.The riders' championship was won by Alessandro Polita on a Suzuki GSX-R1000 K6 entered by Celani Suzuki Italia. His main rivals throughout the season were Claudio Corti aboard a Yamaha Team Italia's R1 and two MV Agusta riders, Luca Scassa and Ayrton Badovini. These four Italian riders scored all the pole positions except for the Valencia round and all the race victories.The manufacturers' championship was won by Suzuki, while the season also saw the first victory for MV Agusta at world level since the 1976 German motorcycle Grand Prix.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL - OFC play-off)

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CONCACAF Fourth Round