The Australian Football League's 2006 finals series took place between the teams that finished in the top eight in the 2006 AFL season.

The winner, West Coast Eagles, was crowned champion of the AFL after defeating Sydney by one point.

With wins in the final round, Fremantle and Sydney secured the "double chance" making it the first time in the game's history where the top four positions did not consist of a single Victorian team.

[1] The first week of the finals series would have significantly been different had Fremantle not been successful in its appeal regarding the result of their controversially drawn match against St Kilda in round five of the premiership season.

Had the draw stood, St Kilda would have finished third, Fremantle fourth, defending premiers Sydney fifth and Collingwood sixth.