Eventually it was clarified that Offaly hadn't broken the substitution rules, Kildare then faced Cavan in the first round of the qualifiers and subsequently defeated them.

[1] Round one saw the exit of Antrim, Down, Waterford, London, Carlow, Louth, Cavan and Wicklow from the 2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Round 2 saw the exit of Kildare, Roscommon, Limerick, Tipperary, Clare, Monaghan, Leitrim and 2005 All-Ireland Champions Tyrone.

Paul Galvin (0-1) Colm Cooper (1-02) Kieran Donaghy (1-02) Mike Frank Russell (0-02) Substitutes: Eoin Brosnan (1-01) Darran O'Sullivan Bryan Sheehan (0-1) Éamonn Fitzmaurice B Guiney Half-time:3-08 - 3-02 Competition:All-Ireland Senior Football Championship(Final) Date:15.30 BSTSunday, September 17, 2006 Venue:Croke Park, Dublin Attendance: 82,289 Referee:Brian Crowe(Cavan) Match rules:70 minutes.replay if scores still level.Maximum of 5 substitutions.

Team: David Clarke (GK) Dermot Geraghty David Heaney Keith Higgins Aidan Higgins James Nallen Peadar Gardiner Ronan McGarrity Pat Harte (1-00) Billy Joe Padden (0-01) Ger Brady Alan Dillon Kevin O'Neill (2-00) Conor Mortimer (0-03) Ciarán McDonald (0-01) Substitutes: D. Brady Trevor Mortimer Barry Moran A Kilcoyne Andy Moran