2006–07 Grimsby Town F.C. season, Squad overview
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2006–07 Grimsby Town F.C. season, Squad overview, Most frequent starting line-up
Most frequent starting line-up uses the team's most used formation: 4–4–2. The players used are those who have played the most games in each respective position, not necessarily who have played most games out of all the players.


2006–07 Guildford Flames season
During the 2006–07 season, the Guildford Flames played their second season in the EPIHL. It was the 15th year of Ice Hockey played by the Guildford Flames. It was to be the tenth and final season under head coach Stan Marple.


2006–07 Guildford Flames season
The Flames made a solid start with nine wins in their first ten games to secure a cup semi-final place, but fell behind in the league after dropping points to Slough Jets and Sheffield Scimitars. Injuries to Jozef Kohut and netminder Joe Watkins then caused concern, but the final game of 2006 at the Spectrum produced a battle for top spot with Tom Annetts backstopping the team to a 3–1 victory over the Scimitars.


2006–07 Guildford Flames season
The New Year started bleakly. After losing only eight points in the first four months of the season, Guildford dropped nine in January. This persuaded Marple to make changes and he brought back Nick Cross from retirement and signed Robert Sobala from Solihull Barons as cover for Kohut. But Sobala lasted only 13 games before suffering a season-ending injury.


2006–07 Guildford Flames season
In the cup semi-final the Flames gained revenge over Slough, with Marian Smerciak's overtime winner putting them into the final against Milton Keynes Lightning. There they took a 3–2 home advantage to Milton Keynes and, in a thriller, triumphed 4–3. Marple and his men duly celebrated but it turned out to be their only trophy of the season.


2006–07 Guildford Flames season
Three losses in February and an injury to their top scorer, Milos Melicherik, put an end to them retaining the league title and they eventually slipped to fourth. After clinching a place in the playoff final, Melicherik returned for the weekend's games in Coventry. In a memorable semi, the Flames overcame the Scimitars 5–4 with Rick Plant scoring the winner 18 seconds before the end of overtime.


2006–07 Guildford Flames season
But their defeat by Bracknell Bees in the final was a bitter pill to swallow after they had lost only one of season's previous eight encounters against their local rivals.


2006–07 Guildford Flames season, Player statistics, Netminders
The asterisk represents the fact that Tom Annetts and Joe Watkins shared a shutout.


2006–07 HKFA Chairman's Cup
Hong Kong Football Association Chairman's Cup 2006-07 was the 32nd staging of the competition, held between 5 March and 21 May 2007, and won by Citizen Reserve. The reserve teams of the 9 First Division League clubs entered the competition.


2006–07 HKFA Chairman's Cup
Despite the fact that the competition is for reserve teams, many teams send first team players for the matches. In fact, some of the clubs do not have any reserve team players, so many first team players, including foreign players, play in the matches as well.


2006–07 HKFA Chairman's Cup, Bracket
Note #: HKFC Reserve beat Wofoo Tai Po Reserve by 3–2 in the first round match to enter into the quarter-final.


2006–07 HNK Hajduk Split season
The 2006–07 season was the 96th season in Hajduk Split’s history and their sixteenth in the Prva HNL. Their 5th place finish in the 2005–06 season meant it was their 16th successive season playing in the Prva HNL.


2006–07 HNK Hajduk Split season, First-team squad
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2006–07 HNK Hajduk Split season, First-team squad, Left club during season
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2006–07 HNK Rijeka season
The 2006–07 season was the 61st season in Rijeka's history. It was their 16th season in the Prva HNL and 33rd successive top tier season.


2006–07 HNK Rijeka season, Matches, Squad statistics
Competitive matches only. Appearances in brackets indicate numbers of times the player came on as a substitute.


2006–07 Hamburger SV season, Season summary
Hamburg were rooted to the bottom of the table for the first half of the season, but the appointment of Huub Stevens revitalised the team and they rose to a final 7th-placed finish.


2006–07 Hamburger SV season, Players, First-team squad
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2006–07 Hamburger SV season, Players, Left club during season
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2006–07 Hartlepool United F.C. season
The 2006–07 season was Hartlepool United's 98th year in existence and their first season in League Two since 2002–03. Along with competing in League Two, the club also participated in the FA Cup, League Cup and League Trophy. The season covers the period from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007.


2006–07 Hartlepool United F.C. season, Players, Current squad
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2006–07 Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey season
The 2006-07 Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey team represented Harvard University. The Crimson had 23 wins, compared to 8 losses and 2 ties. In the ECAC, the Crimson were 17-4-1. Nationally, the Crimson were ranked sixth. Harvard qualified for the NCAA tournament but lost in the opening round. Julie Chu was honoured with the Patty Kazmaier Award.


2006–07 Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey season, Player stats
Note: GP= Games played; G= Goals; A= Assists; PTS = Points; GW = Game Winning Goals; PPL = Power Play Goals; SHG = Short Handed Goals


2006–07 Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey season, Postseason
In the opening round, the Crimson were bested by the eventual national champion Wisconsin Badgers. The Crimson valiantly played in a four-overtime match.


2006–07 Hazfi Cup
The Hazfi Cup 2006–07 is the 20th staging of Iran's football knockout competition.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season
The 2007–07 season was the 110th season of competitive football by Heart of Midlothian, and their 24th consecutive season in the top level of Scottish football, competing in the Scottish Premier League. Hearts also competed in the Champions League, UEFA Cup, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Managers
Valdas Ivanauskas was confirmed as head coach on a permanent basis during the summer of 2006 following the Scottish Cup victory.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Managers
Following an inconsistent start to their League campaign, head coach Valdas Ivanauskas took a sabbatical from his role on 23 October. Eduard Malofeev was appointed interim head coach until Valdas Ivanauskas later in the season although he only resumed the role for a short time before becoming director of football once again an interim head couch was required and previous director of football Anatoly Korobochka took charge of the team.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, First team squad
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2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, First team squad, Left club during season
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2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Matches, Champions League
Hearts played their home 2006/2007 European Champions League games at Murrayfield Stadium, rather than in their home ground Tynecastle. A combination of Tynecastle falling short of UEFA requirements in terms of pitch size and hospitality facilities, and Murrayfield's greater capacity, meant that Murrayfield was the preferred choice for the Tynecastle board. Hearts won their second round qualifying tie against Bosnian champions Široki Brijeg 3–0 on aggregate, but were defeated 5–1 on aggregate by AEK Athens in the final qualifying round. The Greek side won 2–1 at Murrayfield due to two late goals and then won 3–0 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. Hearts had one player (Bruno Aguiar) sent off in the first leg and two players (Julien Brellier and Neil McCann) sent off in the second leg.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Matches, UEFA Cup
The loss in the final qualifying round meant that Hearts dropped into the UEFA Cup first round against Sparta Prague. In this competition they lost 2–0 at a muddy Murrayfield in the first leg and they were eliminated after a 0–0 draw in Prague in the return leg on 28 September 2006.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Matches, Scottish Premier League
Following an indifferent start to their League campaign, head coach Valdas Ivanauskas took a sabbatical from his role on 23 October. Club owner Vladimir Romanov, who stated "I have full confidence in Valdas and look forward to his return", appointed the club's sporting director, Eduard Malofeev, as interim head coach. Further off-field disruption ensued four days later when Romanov warned his players that they would all be put up for sale if Hearts did not win their match against Dunfermline Athletic the next day. Captain Steven Pressley, flanked by senior players Paul Hartley and Craig Gordon, responded with a statement voicing the players' unhappiness at affairs at the club, stating in a pre-match media conference ahead of Dunfermline's visit that there was "significant unrest" in the dressing-room. The game was drawn 1–1.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Matches, Scottish Premier League
The repercussions from the press conference stretched over several months and eventually led to the departure from the club of two of the so-called Riccarton Three. Pressley was dropped for a match against Falkirk on 13 November and named as an unused substitute for a 1–0 defeat by Rangers on 19 November. Hartley was only used as a substitute in the former game. Pressley eventually left Hearts on 9 December, with accompanying press releases stating that this was an amicable agreement.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Matches, Scottish Premier League
He joined rivals Celtic on 1 January 2007 and captained his new squad to a 2–1 victory at Tynecastle on his first return to Edinburgh. Hartley also moved to Celtic during January 2007, in a £1.1 million transfer on 31 January. This only left Gordon, who was dropped for matches away to Dundee United and Rangers in December and January respectively, as the only member of the trio to remain at Hearts beyond the January transfer window.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Matches, Scottish Premier League
Hearts failed to win a game under the management of Eduard Malofeev, who took control during Ivanauskas' sabbatical. Hearts lost at Celtic and Hibernian – a result which eliminated Hearts from the CIS Cup – and at home to Rangers. He remained as caretaker manager until late November 2006 when, despite media reports anticipating the appointment of Eugenijus Riabovas, Ivanauskas returned to resume his duties as club manager.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Matches, Scottish Premier League
A 1–0 loss in the Scottish Cup at Dunfermline on 3 February 2007, with Gordon on the bench, ended Hearts' chance to retain the trophy. Later that month, Ivanauskas was moved to a director of football role, with director of football Anatoly Korobochka assuming the role of interim head coach on 2 March. An improved run of form towards the end of the season witnessed Hearts challenge Aberdeen for third spot in the League and UEFA Cup qualification. The Dons scored a last minute equaliser in a head-to-head confrontation between the two teams at Tynecastle in May, and eventually finished four points clear in third place.


2006–07 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season, Transfers
On the eve of the SPL season, Hearts announced the capture of Chile striker Mauricio Pinilla on a season-long loan. PAOK Salonika's Christos Karipidis and Tiago Costa, a full back from Benfica B were also signed, while in the final week of the transfer window three further Lithuanian players – Marius Žaliūkas, Kęstutis Ivaškevičius and Andrius Velička – joined on loan from FBK Kaunas. Hearts fans still anticipated the arrival of "two World Cup stars" but were left disappointed when the club announced that the final piece of business of the transfer window would be to sign the previously-loaned striker Roman Bednář on a permanent deal.


2006–07 Heineken Cup
The 2006–07 Heineken Cup was the 12th edition of the European Heineken Cup rugby union club tournament. The pool draw took place on 21 June at Twickenham. The pool stages started on 20 October and concluded in January, going for six rounds. Following the quarter- and semi-finals, the final was played on 20 May before a near-capacity crowd at the 82,000-seat redeveloped Twickenham in London. London Wasps defeated Leicester Tigers 25–9, denying Tigers the domestic and European treble.


2006–07 Heineken Cup, Draw
The top seeds from each of the participant nations (France, England, Scotland, Italy, Wales and Ireland) were all drawn into separate pools. These top seeds were; Benetton Treviso (pool 1), Edinburgh (pool 2), Sale Sharks (pool 3), Cardiff Blues (pool 4), Ulster (pool 5) and Biarritz (pool 6). Rules state that no two sides from the same country could be allocated the same pool. However, the seventh French club Castres could be drawn into any pool. The draw took place on 21 June. The greatest team representation is from France, which has seven teams participating in the tournament. England has the second largest representation with six teams. Ireland, Wales and Italy all have three teams, and Scotland have two.


2006–07 Heineken Cup, Competition format
Ties between two teams are broken in the following order:


2006–07 Heineken Cup, Competition format
The quarterfinals are seeded from 1 to 8. The six pool winners receive the top six seeds, based on their point totals. The top two second-place finishers are seeded 7 and 8. The seeds of the qualifying teams are in parentheses next to their names in the tables.


2006–07 Heineken Cup, Pool stage
Full results can be found at 2006–07 Heineken Cup pool stage. All times are local to the match location.


2006–07 Heineken Cup pool stage
The 2006–07 Heineken Cup pool stage was played from October 2006 through to January 2007. The top team in each group qualified for the quarter-finals automatically as seeds 1–6, while the two remaining spots in the quarter-finals were filled by the two runners-up with the greatest points totals.


2006–07 Hellenic Football League
The 2006–07 Hellenic Football League season was the 54th in the history of the Hellenic Football League, a football competition in England.


2006–07 Hellenic Football League, Premier Division
The Premier Division featured 17 clubs which had competed in the division's previous season, along with five new clubs:


2006–07 Hellenic Football League, Division One East
Division One East featured 15 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs:


2006–07 Hellenic Football League, Division One West
Division One West featured 16 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs:


2006–07 Hereford United F.C. season
The 2006–2007 season was Hereford United's 26th season in the Football League.


2006–07 Hereford United F.C. season
This was Hereford's first season in the Football League since 1996–97, after they were promoted from the Conference the previous season. All the members of the squad were signed on free transfers, in keeping with previous squads.


2006–07 Hereford United F.C. season
In the early part of 2007 Hereford were hovering in mid-table, and a notable 4–1 away win at eventual play-off semi-finalists Lincoln City lifted them to 8th position. But a poor run of form followed, with only 8 points won from the 13 remaining matches, meant that the club dropped as low as 17th, before eventually finishing 16th.


2006–07 Hereford United F.C. season
Two former players, Ben Smith and Steve Guinan, returned to the club in the January transfer window.


2006–07 Hertha BSC season
Hertha BSC's 2006–07 season began on 16 July, with their UEFA Intertoto Cup match against FC Moscow, and ended on 19 May, with their Bundesliga match against Eintracht Frankfurt. They were one of 11 winners of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. In the UEFA Cup, and in the DFB-Ligapokal they were eliminated in the first round. They made it as far as the quarter-finals of the DFB-Pokal, and finished tenth in the Bundesliga.


2006–07 Hertha BSC season, Players, First-team squad
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2006–07 Hertha BSC season, Transfers, Summer
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2006–07 Hertha BSC season, Transfers, Summer
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2006–07 Hertha BSC season, Transfers, Winter
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2006–07 Hertha BSC season, Transfers, Winter
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season
Season 2006–07 was a mixed season for Hibernian; their league form suffered from extended cup runs, and they eventually finished sixth. The reward for their cup form was a first trophy in 16 years, thrashing Kilmarnock 5–1 in the final to lift the CIS Cup. Hibs were knocked out of the Scottish Cup in a semi-final replay by Dunfermline.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season
The season was also notable for the departure of manager Tony Mowbray, the appointment of John Collins as his replacement and a players' revolt that quickly followed the CIS Cup triumph.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Pre-season
The competitive football started early in 2006–07 for Hibs due to their qualification for the Intertoto Cup. They were given a bye to the second round, where they comfortably beat their first opponents Dinaburg (Latvia) 8–0 on aggregate. Hibs were eliminated from European competition on the away goals rule by Danish team OB in the third and final Intertoto Cup round.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Pre-season
Hibs only played one friendly match in the 2006 pre-season, a 3–2 win at Easter Road against Premier League side Charlton Athletic.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, League season
Hibs got off to a slow start in the new league season, taking eleven points from the first nine matches. The highlight of the early part of the league season was a 2–1 win over Rangers on 17 September, but this was then followed with two disappointing losses against Falkirk and St Mirren, both by 1–0.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, League season
On 7 September 2006, the management team of Tony Mowbray and Mark Venus signed new 12-month rolling contracts that were due to come into force in July 2007. A month later, however, Mowbray left the club to become manager of West Bromwich Albion. Venus took charge of the team for their next game, an Edinburgh derby, but followed Mowbray to West Bromwich in the following week. John Park and Mark Proctor took charge of two games on a caretaker basis, before John Collins was appointed as manager, with Tommy Craig as his assistant. Mark Proctor became the reserve team coach before taking the manager's job at Livingston, while John Park returned to his "behind the scenes" role before taking a similar post at Celtic.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, League season
Before Collins took over as manager, Hibs had gone through a particularly inconsistent start to the league campaign. They were capable of beating Rangers and causing problems for every team in the league, but were also capable of losing to "lesser" sides, including St Mirren and Falkirk. In the period immediately after Collins took over, Hibs' league form improved somewhat, meaning that they clinched a place in the "top six" of the SPL with three games to spare.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, League season
After that, however, Hibs didn't win another game until they beat a shadow Celtic side on the final day. During this winless run, reports emerged in the media of a dispute between Collins and many of the Hibs players. The players strongly criticised the manager for constantly chopping and changing the team and formation. Reports claimed that almost all of the first team players went to chairman Rod Petrie hoping to get Collins replaced. The period of unrest was apparently quelled when club captain Rob Jones made a statement on behalf of the squad apologising "to the management, supporters and board of the club for any distress or embarrassment that has been caused".


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Scottish League Cup
Hibs advanced to the League Cup quarter finals under Tony Mowbray due to two straightforward wins over lower division opposition (4–0 v Peterhead and 6–0 v Gretna). Following John Collins' appointment as manager, the team defeated Hearts 1–0 in the quarter-final and St Johnstone 3–1 after extra time in the semi-final at Tynecastle.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Scottish League Cup
On 18 March 2007, Hibs beat Kilmarnock 5–1 at Hampden Park to win the League Cup for the third time in their history. This was the first major trophy that Hibs had won in 16 years; the previous trophy win being the 1991–92 League Cup competition.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Scottish Cup
Hibs started their Scottish Cup campaign with a difficult tie away to Aberdeen, where they drew 2–2. In the replay, Hibs produced one of their best performances of the season to win 4–1 despite conceding the first goal of the game.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Scottish Cup
In the next round Hibs comfortably beat Gretna, who they had already hammered in the Scottish League Cup, by 3–1. Hibs were then drawn away to Queen of the South, where they won 2–1 thanks to a free kick by David Murphy.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Scottish Cup
The semi-final with Dunfermline Athletic on 15 April was overshadowed by the player revolt which had immediately preceded it. The match was drawn 0–0 and the tie was replayed on 24 April. Hibs lost the replay 1–0 to a late Panenka penalty by Jim McIntyre.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Transfers
Before the season started, Tony Mowbray made some significant changes to the Hibs squad. He brought in two new central defenders (Rob Jones and Shelton Martis) to replace the departing Gary Smith and Gary Caldwell. Derek Riordan had also left the club, but Merouane Zemmama was brought in to provide more creativity.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Transfers
Top goalscorer Chris Killen had a prolific season for the Hibees, but it was cut short by an Achilles injury suffered while playing Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup. With Killen out for the rest of the season, John Collins signed Thomas Sowunmi, a 28-year-old Hungarian international striker, on a six-month contract as cover. Former Hibs striker Tam McManus, released by Falkirk in the January transfer window, was offered a trial period but did not earn a full contract and later signed for Dunfermline Atthletic.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Transfers
The most high-profile transfer activity during the season involved Kevin Thomson and Scott Brown. Speculation persisted that both would be sold during the January transfer window, despite Collins' insistence otherwise. Thomson eventually departed to Rangers, for a reported fee of £2M, on the transfer window's final day. Brown was eventually sold to Celtic at the end of the season for a record transfer fee between Scottish clubs of £4.4 million.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Young players
Some younger players in the Hibs squad developed significantly during the season, particularly Abdessalam Benjelloun. 'Benji' gained a reputation as a 'supersub', scoring important goals in the Scottish Cup ties against Aberdeen and Gretna, the CIS Cup Semi Final against St Johnstone, and two goals in the CIS Cup Final victory. Steven Fletcher also scored two goals in the CIS Cup Final and one goal in the CIS Cup Semi Final.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Young players
Several youngsters were given their first opportunities in the Hibs first team by John Collins. These included 20-year-old goalkeeper Andrew McNeil, 19-year-old right back Kevin McCann and 18-year-old left back / midfielder Lewis Stevenson. Midfielder Sean Lynch made his debut aged 20 against Gretna and then followed that up by keeping his place in the starting line up against Celtic at Parkhead.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Young players
Ross Campbell, Dermot McCaffrey, Ross Chisholm and Damon Gray (who scored on his league debut at Pittodrie) also featured. Some of these opportunities were because Collins has had to balance a relatively small squad with a heavy workload due to the two extended cup runs, but most of the young players performed creditably.


2006–07 Hibernian F.C. season, Player stats
During the 2007–08 season, Hibs used 32 different players in competitive games. The table below shows the number of appearances and goals scored by each player.


2006–07 Highland Football League
The 2006–07 Highland Football League was won by Keith. Fort William finished bottom.


2006–07 HockeyAllsvenskan season
The 2006–07 HockeyAllsvenskan season was the second season of the HockeyAllsvenskan, the second level of ice hockey in Sweden. 16 teams participated in the league, and the top four qualified for the Kvalserien, with the opportunity to be promoted to the Elitserien.


2006–07 HockeyAllsvenskan season, Regular season
*IFK Arboga IK did not participate in the relegation round due to their financial situation, and the team was relegated to Division 1 as a result.


2006–07 Honduran Liga Nacional
The 2006–07 Honduran Liga Nacional was the 42nd edition of the Honduran top division. C.D. Motagua and Real C.D. España won the Apertura and Clausura tournaments respectively.


2006–07 Honduran Liga Nacional, Apertura
The Apertura tournament for the 2006–07 season started on 12 August 2006 with the 2–1 Club Deportivo Olimpia's away victory over C.D. Victoria at the Estadio Nilmo Edwards. C.D. Motagua as Apertura winners qualified to the 2007 UNCAF Interclub Cup.


2006–07 Honduran Liga Nacional, Clausura
Honduras Clausura 2006-07 is the closing season of Liga Nacional de Honduras, the first division national football league in Honduras. It followed the 2006–07 Honduras Apertura season. This is tournament # 50 of  Liga Nacional de Honduras. The winner qualified for the 2007 UNCAF Club Tournament. It started January 13 and ended on 19 May.


2006–07 Honduran Liga Nacional, Relegation table, Promoted team
This team was promoted from Honduran Liga Nacional de Ascenso for the next season:


2006–07 Honduran Liga Nacional de Ascenso
The 2006–07 Honduran Liga Nacional de Ascenso was the 40th season of the Second level in Honduran football and the fifth under the name Liga Nacional de Ascenso. Under the management of Carlos Martínez, Deportes Savio won the tournament after defeating Arsenal F.C. in the promotion series and obtained promotion to the 2007–08 Honduran Liga Nacional.


2006–07 Hong Kong FA Cup
The 2006–07 Hong Kong FA Cup was the 33rd staging of the Hong Kong FA Cup. The competition started on 21 April 2007 with 10 Hong Kong First Division clubs. Four of them took part in the first round to determine which team advanced to the quarter finals. From quarter finals onward, the cup competition was a single-elimination tournament.


2006–07 Hong Kong FA Cup
Due to sponsorship deal with the Dongguan LANWA Group Co. Ltd, the event was officially known as 2006/07 HKFA Lanwa International FA Cup.


2006–07 Hong Kong FA Cup
Although all the matches before the final was held at the Mongkok Stadium, the final was staged at the Hong Kong Stadium on 19 May 2007. South China defeated Happy Valley 3-1 in the final, to secure their ninth title and along with the domestic treble (Hong Kong First Division League champions, Hong Kong Senior Shield champions and the cup).


2006–07 Hong Kong FA Cup
South China, as the winners of Hong Kong FA Cup, represented Hong Kong in the Barclays Asia Trophy 2007 in July and played against the Premier League teams Liverpool F.C., Portsmouth F.C. and Fulham F.C..


2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League
The 2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League season was the 95th since its establishment.


2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League
In this season, the First Division was composed by 10 teams. HKFC and Tai Po have been promoted from the Second Division. The two bottom teams of the First Division in last season, South China and Hong Kong 08, were reinstated.


2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League
South China won their 28th league title by defeating Lanwa Redbull in their last match of the season on 27 April 2007.


2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League, Featured matches
(round 12) (Hong Kong 08 0–8 South China)The first match of South China after the official return of head coach Casemiro Mior. Scorer table leader Tales Schutz scored 4 goals in the match, the most goals in a match during the season.


2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League, Featured matches
(round 12) (Hong Kong 08 0–8 South China) (refer to Highest Scoring Game)


2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League, Featured matches
(round 17) (Citizen 0–1 Rangers; South China 1–1 Kitchee)The attendance was 8,426 and the matches were played in Mong Kok Stadium. It was the first time in 11 eleven years that Mong Kok Stadium is full for a First Division League match. (The full capacity of the stadium is 8,500. The unoccupied seats are due to unattended reserve tickets owners) It is also the first time since 1996 Senior Shield semi-final of Instant-Dict against South China where there is a full house in local Hong Kong football matches.


2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League, Featured matches
One possible reason for the high attendance is that the result of the South China-Kitchee match may decide the champion of the season. Either South China won or Kitchee won by 3–0 or more, the winner would be granted champion. However, the match ended 1–1, which means that the league champion would be decided after the last round matches.


2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League, Featured matches
(round 4) (Happy Valley 0–3 Kitchee)In a match played on the National Day holiday, 5 players were sent off in the match. Three were from Happy Valley and two from Kitchee. A total of 5 red cards and 8 yellow cards were issued in the match. (Round 4) (Xiangxue Sun Hei 1–2 Lanwa Redbull)4 players of Xiangxue Sun Hei were sent off within the last 4 minutes of the match.


2006–07 Hong Kong First Division League, Fixtures and results
All times are Hong Kong Time (UTC+8). As of 14 April 2007


2006–07 Hong Kong League Cup
The Hong Kong League Cup 2006–07 is the 7th staging of the Hong Kong League Cup.


2006–07 Hong Kong League Cup
The competition started on 11 January 2007 with 10 Hong Kong First Division clubs and was concluded on 18 March 2007 with the final.


2006–07 Hong Kong League Cup
Kitchee regained their second consecutive League Cup champion by winning 2-1 against Happy Valley in the final. They also won a HKD$80,000 championship prize.


2006–07 Hong Kong Second Division League
2006–07 Hong Kong Second Division League was the 93rd season of Hong Kong Second Division League.


2006–07 Hong Kong Second Division League
The top 2 teams in 2005–06 season, HKFC and Tai Po have promoted to First Division. However, the bottom 2 teams in First Division are retained by HKFA in the top division. Therefore, the number of teams competing in the Second Division in 2006–07 is reduced from 13 to 11 teams. The 2 teams promoted from Third Division were Shek Kip Mei and Yau Tsim Mong.


2006–07 Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield
The Hong Kong Senior Shield 2006–07, also known as the 2006–07 HKFA Choi Fung Hong Senior Shield , is the 105th staging of the Hong Kong's oldest football knockout competition.


2006–07 Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield
The competition started on 10 December 2006 with 10 Hong Kong First Division clubs and concluded on 21 January 2007 with the final.


2006–07 Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield
South China captured their 20th title of the competition after beating Xiangxue Sun Hei by 2-1 in the final.


2006–07 Hoofdklasse
The 2006–07 season of the Hoofdklasse was competed in six leagues, three Saturday leagues and three Sunday leagues. The champions of the three Saturday leagues faced each other after the regular season for the Dutch national Saturday amateur football title, the champions of the three Sunday leagues faced each other after the regular season for the national Sunday amateur football title. The Saturday and Sunday champions then faced each other for the national amateur football title.


2006–07 Houston Rockets season
The 2006–07 Houston Rockets season was the 40th season of the Houston Rockets franchise in the NBA. The team ended the regular season with a 52–30 record and a 3rd-place finish in the Southwest. The Rockets faced the Utah Jazz in the playoffs, losing the series in seven games. The Rockets had the third best team defensive rating in the NBA.


2006–07 Houston Rockets season
With the playoff loss, the Rockets made the decision to fire head coach Jeff Van Gundy on May 18, 2007. Five days later, former San Diego Rockets (now the Houston Rockets) player Rick Adelman was hired in Van Gundy's position.


2006–07 Houston Rockets season
Like the previous two seasons,  Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming once again were selected to play in the 2007 NBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas. However, McGrady was the only team representative as Yao did not play due to an injury. It was Yao's fifth All-Star appearance and the last of seven All-Star appearances for McGrady as later injuries began to slow him down and eventually limit his playing time.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season
Huddersfield Town's 2006–07 campaign saw Town fail to make any progress in Football League One, which subsequently saw Peter Jackson lose his job in March, being replaced by Andy Ritchie the following month. The irony of his appointment being that it was Ritchie's Barnsley side who stopped Jackson's Terriers from reaching the play-off final the previous season.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the start of the season
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2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
Following the narrow play-off defeat in May 2006 to neighbours Barnsley, the 2006–07 season started with high hopes that this would be the year that Huddersfield Town would make the step up to the Championship. Peter Jackson showed his confidence by extending his contract until May 2009. Notwithstanding the arrival of Luke Beckett departures, including Junior Mendes, exceeded arrivals.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
The team made a sound start, with an encouraging home draw with much fancied Nottingham Forest, and they peaked at 5th on 21 October 2006. Some of the results in that period flattered the performances and the wheels came off in the next game with a 3–0 loss to Brighton & Hove Albion.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
Despite an offer of cash from the Board, Peter Jackson declined to take any players on loan and the team spiralled downwards. Elimination, at home, in the first round of all three cup competitions did nothing to lift the gloom and on 5 January, in the televised encounter at Yeovil Town, the team played perhaps the worst 45 minutes of football in recent seasons to go 3–0 down at half-time (the game finished 3–1).


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
Around the January transfer window, Paweł Abbott and Danny Adams left, with Jackson indicating that Martin McIntosh and Mark Hudson would not play for the Club again, while Andy Taylor joined from Blackburn Rovers on loan until 5 April 2007, and Frank Sinclair joined from Burnley for the rest of the season. Also signed on a loan deal, on 23 February, was Barnsley striker Paul Hayes who played four games before his return.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
A 5–1 thrashing at Nottingham Forest, on 3 March, lead directly to the departure of Peter Jackson on 6 March 2007, according to a Board statement, "due to our form and the inability to attract key players".


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
Academy Director Gerry Murphy was appointed caretaker manager, one of whose first acts was to bring Martin McIntosh and Mark Hudson back into the reckoning, and Huddersfield went unbeaten in the first five games with Murphy in charge until they lost 2–0 at home to Blackpool on 9 April 2007, his last game as manager.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
On 4 April 2007, a press conference was scheduled to announce the appointment of Charlton Athletic's assistant manager Phil Parkinson as the new manager. However he telephoned the Club, just over an hour before the press conference was due to begin, to reveal that he was staying with Charlton Athletic. Andy Ritchie was then appointed Huddersfield Town manager on 11 April 2007 on a two-year contract.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
On 17 April, it was announced that Huddersfield Town's sponsors, Yorkshire Building Society and kit suppliers Admiral would be replaced. The new kit supplier was Huddersfield based Mitre and the new sponsors were Gibraltar based gambling outfit CasinoRed.com, who were given a contract for 12 months with an option to extend for a further two years.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
Also on 17 April, Gerry Murphy, was promoted to a new position as Director of Football Development where he would be in overall control of scouting as well as his existing duties as Academy Director.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
On 5 May, it was announced that six of Town's second-year scholars were offered professional contracts. They were Joe Skarz (who had already signed his), Luke Malcher, Simon Eastwood, James Berrett, Mitchell Bailey, and Lucas Akins,   who had already been offered a new professional contract. Fellow youngster Alex Hallam was released.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review
Ritchie was in charge for the final four matches of the season with the team collecting seven points out of 12. The team finished the season in 15th position with 59 points, 16 points below the play-off places but 12 points above the relegation positions.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
Peter Jackson signed a two-year extension to his contract, on 18 May 2006, that will see him managing Town until May 2009. Then on 27 June 2006 he made his first summer signing by snapping up 27-year-old goalkeeper Matt Glennon from St Johnstone on a free. On 29 June 2006, Junior Mendes moved to Notts County while Phil Senior went to Northwich Victoria on 30 June, both also without a fee.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
3 July 2006 saw Huddersfield sign 29-year-old Sheffield United striker Luke Beckett, for £85,000, on a three-year deal. Beckett scored six goals in seven games for Huddersfield during a loan spell in 2005.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
On 8 August 2006, Gary Taylor-Fletcher scored the 500,000th goal in English league football, with a fierce 25-yard drive that nestled into the top-left corner, to lead the Terriers to a 3–0 home victory over Rotherham United.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
Peter Jackson was sent to the stands, on 12 August 2006, after grabbing Bristol City's Lee Johnson around the throat in a touchline altercation 10 minutes from time in Huddersfield's 2–1 win over Bristol City. On 30 August 2006 The F.A. charged Jackson with improper conduct over the incident and he was fined £300.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
From 18 August 2006, Martin McIntosh went on a month's loan to Grimsby Town but regained his place immediately on his return. On the same date, Gary Taylor-Fletcher signed a two-year contract extension which keeps him at the club until the end of the 2008–09 season, following closely on David Mirfin signing an identical contract extension.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
John McAliskey was loaned to Wrexham for a month on 19 September 2006.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
On 21 December, Terry Yorath quit his role as assistant manager, partially down to his three-month illness of pancreatitis. He was replaced by first team coach John Dungworth, who had been covering him in his absence.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
Paul Rachubka was taken on loan to Peterborough United as cover for Mark Tyler and played four League 2 matches over Christmas/New Year 2006–07.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
Peter Jackson was again sent to the stands in the Terriers' 3–2 victory over Swansea City, on 30 December 2006, for aggressively protesting a throw-in decision that lead to Swansea's second goal but the F.A. decided to take no action.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
In January 2007 Danny Adams and Martin McIntosh were informed that their contracts would not be renewed in the summer and were transfer listed along with Paweł Abbott. Also in January, Adnan Ahmed went to Lincoln City on a one-week trial.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
On 13 January 2007, Peter Jackson announced that Joe Skarz would be the first choice left-back in preference to Danny Adams, who left the club on 23 January 2007 when his contract was cancelled 'by mutual consent'.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
On 22 January 2007, Pawel Abbott signed for Swansea on a two and a half year deal for a transfer fee reported to be in the region of £150,000.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
Then, on 25 January it was announced that midfielder, Mark Hudson, would be transfer listed.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
On 31 January 2007, as the transfer window started to close, Blackburn Rovers defender Andy Taylor was signed on loan by manager Peter Jackson. On the same date Paul Rachubka went on loan to Blackpool until the end of the season.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
In early February, Frank Sinclair joined from Burnley for the rest of the season with a view to a longer deal.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
On 6 March 2007, it was announced by Huddersfield Town that Peter Jackson had left the club with his contract cancelled by mutual consent. Jackson's last game in charge was a dismal 5–1 defeat to Nottingham Forest on 3 March 2007. A statement from the board said: "The Board's clearly stated minimum aim at the start of the season was to achieve a Play-Off position, but unfortunately due to our form and the inability to attract key players, this objective is now looking remote." Academy Director Gerry Murphy was appointed caretaker manager, while a lengthy selection process was put in train, and one of his first acts was to bring Martin McIntosh and Mark Hudson back into the reckoning.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
On 15 March, John McCombe joined Boston United on loan, but was recalled on 23 March, without making a single appearance for Boston. Then on 21 March, Chris Brandon joined Paul Rachubka on loan at Blackpool. The following day, Paul Hayes returned to Barnsley.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
On 31 March, Hudson and McIntosh were both in the starting line up for the match against Port Vale which ended 2-2. John McAliskey scored his first goal of the season and his first for nearly 2½ years. Andy Taylor was recalled by Blackburn Rovers on 5 April 2007.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Events
The selection process for the new manager was accident prone. Kevin Blackwell pulled out to take the Luton Town manager's position on 27 March 2007, the day that he was due to be interviewed, then on 4 April 2007 a press conference was scheduled to announce the appointment of Phil Parkinson as the new manager. However he telephoned the Club, just over an hour before the press conference was due to begin, to reveal that he was staying with Charlton Athletic. It was widely reported on Bank Holiday Monday that Andy Ritchie was to be appointed Huddersfield Town manager, but it was not officially announced until 11 April 2007, and he  will be on a two-year contract.


2006–07 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the end of the season
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2006–07 Hull City A.F.C. season
During the 2006–07 English football season, Hull City competed in the Football League Championship.


2006–07 Hull City A.F.C. season, Season summary
On 13 June 2006, Peter Taylor left Hull to take up the job vacated by Dowie at Crystal Palace, a club at which he had enjoyed considerable success as a player. Phil Parkinson was confirmed as his replacement on 29 June 2006, with Hull paying Colchester (with whom Parkinson was still under contract) £400,000 compensation. Phil Brown, who had recently departed his job as manager of Derby County, joined the club as Parkinson's assistant.


2006–07 Hull City A.F.C. season, Season summary
Defender Leon Cort became Hull's first million-pound player when he followed Peter Taylor to Crystal Palace for a fee of £1,250,000. Parkinson wasted no time in spending the majority of this money on strengthening the City squad in readiness for the 2006–07 season.


2006–07 Hull City A.F.C. season, Season summary
Chairman Adam Pearson stated his ambition to take Hull into the top flight for the first time in their history – and he believed Phil Parkinson was the manager to do it. However, their dismal start to the 2006–07 season was hardly the form of a team attempting to gain promotion, and on 4 December 2006 Parkinson was sacked as manager with Hull in the relegation zone, despite having spent over £2 million on players.


2006–07 Hull City A.F.C. season, Season summary
Phil Brown was appointed as caretaker manager and by 4 January 2007, Hull had moved out of the relegation zone and Brown was rewarded with a contract as their new manager until at least the end of the season.


2006–07 Hull City A.F.C. season, Season summary
Hull's Championship game against Sunderland on 17 March 2007 at the Stadium of Light saw an attendance of 38,448, a record to a Hull City game since they visited Stamford Bridge on 14 May 1977.


2006–07 Hull City A.F.C. season, Season summary
Hull City all but secured their place in the Championship next season with a 1–0 victory away at Cardiff City, on 28 April 2007. This left them 3 points clear of Leeds United, the only side with a chance of overtaking them, but with a vastly superior goal difference this was only a mathematical possibility. This crucial goal was scored by Dean Windass, who had rejoined his hometown club on loan from Bradford City.


2006–07 Hull City A.F.C. season, Season summary
By 4 May, due to a lack of any realistic chance of them remaining in the Championship, Leeds went into administration and in doing so received the 10 point penalty such a move incurs. This deduction left Leeds at the bottom of the championship on 36 points, securing Hull's place in the Championship for the 2007–08 season.


2006–07 Hull City A.F.C. season, Squad
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2006–07 Hull City A.F.C. season, Squad, Left club during season
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2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season
The 2006–07 season is Hyderabad cricket team's 73rd competitive season. The Hyderabad cricket team is senior men's domestic cricket team based in the city of Hyderabad, India, run by the Hyderabad Cricket Association. They represent the region of Telangana in the state of Andhra Pradesh in domestic competitions.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads
Rayudu and Suman returned to the Hyderabad from the Andhra while Jaisimha replaced Rajesh Yadav as the head coach of the Hyderabad ahead of the 2006–07 season.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads
Laxman got picked to the India Green squad for the 2006-07 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy, a List-A cricket tournament in India. But, Laxman had to pull out of the tournament owing to the hamstring injury and was replaced on the eve of the first game.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads
Ojha got selected to the Rest of India squad for the 2006 Irani Cup, a first-class cricket competition in India.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads
Laxman, Rayudu, Ojha, Khaleel and Arjun Yadav got selected to the South Zone squad for the 2006-07 Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in India.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Squads
Laxman, Ojha and Arjun got selected to the South Zone squad for the 2006-07 Deodhar Trophy, a List-A cricket competition in India.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Ranji Trophy
The Hyderabad team, led by V. V. S. Laxman, began their campaign in the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India, with a draw against the Maharashtra at Karad on 23 November 2006. After failure in the first two matches medium-pacer, Narender Pal Singh announced his retirement from the first-class cricket following his 13-year stint with the Hyderabad. Laxman missed after two games as he got selected to the India team for the tour to the South Africa. Anirudh Singh replaced Laxman as the captain for the rest of the tournament. They finished third in Group B of the Super League and failed to advance to the knockout stage with two wins, a loss and three draws.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Ranji One–Day Trophy
The Hyderabad, led by V. V. S. Laxman, began their campaign in the Subbaiah Pillai Trophy as part of the South Zone Ranji One–Day Trophy, a List-A cricket tournament in India, with a win against the Goa at Hyderabad on 10 February 2007. The Hyderabad suffered an early set-back but the half-centuries from Laxman and Arjun Yadav helped the Hyderabad recover to 236 which proved to be more than enough as three-wicket haul from Kaushik Reddy and two-wicket hauls from Alfred Absolem and Pragyan Ojha ensured a 49-run win against the Goa.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Ranji One–Day Trophy
In the second match, the tight-bowling from the Tamil Nadu bowlers helped them to restrict the Hyderabad to 188 despite the half-century from Laxman while the half-centuries from Anirudha Srikkanth and Hemang Badani ensured the Tamil Nadu an eight-wicket win. Laxman pulled himself out of the tournament after two matches citing personal reasons. Anirudh Singh replaced him as the captain for the rest of the tournament.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Ranji One–Day Trophy
The pull-out of Laxman from the squad immediately affected the Hyderabad as they failed to chase the target of 232 set by the Andhra in their third match as Ambati Rayudu's 40 was the only score to cross 20 while Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna was the most effective bowler for the Andhra with three-wickets to his name. Earlier, the half-century from Manoj Sai provided a strong start for the Andhra though they were pulled back by the three-wicket hauls by Ojha and Absolem in the middle.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Ranji One–Day Trophy
The Kerala pulled off a tie against the Hyderabad in the fourth match despite their middle-order collapse as VA Jagadeesh carried the bat with an unbeaten 95 to reach 225 with the support from Padmaja Manikantan and Vinan Nair. Earlier, the Hyderabad reached to 225 with the half-century from Shashank Nag and the cameos from Rayudu, Arjun Yadav and Anirudh. The Hyderabad lost to the Karnataka in their final group game as the three-wicket haul from Sunil Joshi and an all-round performance from Chandrashekar Raghu ensured a six-wicket win for the Karnataka. This loss eliminated the Hyderabad from the tournament as they finished fourth in the South Zone with a win, a tie and three losses.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Inter State Twenty–20 Tournament
The Hyderabad team, led by Anirudh Singh, began their campaign in the Inter State Twenty–20 Tournament, a maiden domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament in India, with a win against the Goa at Visakhapatnam on 3 April 2007. Playing their first-ever T-20 match, brisk scoring of Tirumalasetti Suman at the start and Ibrahim Khaleel at the end helped the Hyderabad post 158 in 20 overs despite the middle-order collapse while the three-wicket hauls from Inder Shekar Reddy and Amol Shinde ensured the Hyderabad a 21-run win against the Goa.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Inter State Twenty–20 Tournament
In the second match, the half-century from Khaleel helped the Hyderabad recover from their top-order collapse to 132 but the collective effort from the Kerala batsmen ensured the Kerala chase the target with five-wicket to spare. The collective bowling effort from the Tamil Nadu and an unbeaten 40-run knock from Subramaniam Badrinath helped them to defeat the Hyderabad in the third match by six wickets.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Inter State Twenty–20 Tournament
In the fourth match, an unbeaten half-century from Ambati Rayudu along with a 40-run knock from Doddapaneni Rushi Raj helped the Hyderabad post 184 while the run-outs at the start and five-wickets shared between Pragyan Ojha and Shivaji Yadav helped them bowl out the Andhra for 88. The Hyderabad lost to the Karnataka in their last zonal match as they finished fourth in the South Zone and failed to advance to the Group stage with two wins and three losses.


2006–07 Hyderabad C.A. season, Inter State Twenty–20 Tournament
The Hyderabad batting collapsed once again in this tournament posting only 131 in 20 overs as Dwaraka Ravi Teja and Shashank Nag were the only people to score above 20 while the batting contributions from Robin Uthappa, Chandrashekar Raghu and Deepak Chougule helped the Karnataka chase the target with six wickets to spare.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup
The 2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup was the third edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup first-class cricket tournament, an international cricket tournament between nations who have not been awarded Test status by the International Cricket Council. Defending champions Ireland won the tournament after three wins and one drawn game, defeating Canada by an innings in the final, and stretched their streak of unbeaten matches in the Intercontinental Cup to eight.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup
The tournament lasted from 22 March 2006 to 23 May 2007. The number of participants was cut from 12 teams to eight following the 2005 edition, but the matches were lengthened from three to four days, and each team qualifying for the main stage played three games, instead of two in the 2005 and 2004 editions.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup
The eight teams played in two groups of four, with the winners of each group proceeding to the finalwhich was played between Ireland and Canada at Grace Road in Leicester. The game was scheduled for 22 to 25 May 2007, but in the event Ireland won inside two days. All teams without Test status which qualified for the 2007 Cricket World Cup participated, along with the United Arab Emirates and the winner of the challenge match between Namibia and Nepal (runners-up in Africa and Asia in the 2005 edition).


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Tournament organisation
Each team played the other three teams in a group once in a round-robin format; the winners of each group qualified for the final.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Tournament organisation
Matches lasted four days, with a minimum over rate of 16 per hour, i.e. 96 a day. If the scheduled minimum was not met by the end of the day, an extra half-hour of play was allowed. Otherwise, the normal rules of first-class cricket applied.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Challenge Match: Namibia v Nepal
Namibia were put in to bat at the Wanderers Cricket Ground in Windhoek after the first day's play was lost to rain, and made 272 despite six wickets from Nepal's captain Binod Das. Deon Kotze and Gerrie Snyman shared the highest partnership with 97, and proceeded to bowl Nepal out for 143, with six bowlers getting at least one wicket. In Namibia's second innings, twelve sixes were hit, with Louis Burger and Snyman both getting half-centuries before Namibia declared on 239 for 6. Nepal batted out 24 overs to draw the match, but Namibia qualified nevertheless.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group A
Namibia opened the group by playing two matches in Europe in May, the first against Scotland at Mannofield Park in Aberdeen. After winning the toss and choosing to bat, Namibia lost both openers to opposing captain Craig Wright, and after captain Deon Kotze went for a half-hour three, they were 73 for four.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group A
Sarel Burger (69) and Gerrie Snyman (41) put on 70 for the fifth wicket, but spinner Ross Lyons got both of them out to end with figures of four for 10 in the first innings, and Paul Hoffmann also got two wickets as Namibia were bowled out for 168. Scotland ended the first day on 95 for three, with Ryan Watson 62 not out. On a rain-shortened second day, with only 48.5 of the stipulated 104 overs bowled, Watson completed his maiden first-class century, with wicket-keeper Colin Smith contributing 70 in a stand of 177.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group A
Smith was out shortly before the close of play, and when Neil McCallum and Watson fell early on the third day, Scotland had slipped to 279 for six. However, a partnership of 68 for the seventh wicket between Wright (40) and Dewald Nel (25) helped take Scotland to 360, giving them a first-innings lead of 192. Hoffmann then single-handedly reduced Namibia to 35 for five, finishing the match with figures of seven wickets for 32 runs, and though the lower order briefly resisted, Scotland still completed an innings victory inside three days.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group A
The following week, Namibia became the first team to be eliminated from the tournament final after their defeat in Dublin. Despite a better effort from the bowlers, who took fifteen wickets (of which Ian van Zyl took nine) for fewer runs than they had conceded in Scotland, Namibia totalled 226 runs - 87 of them coming from No. 9 Kola Burger. The first day's play was called off due to rain, but on the second day Ireland bowled out Namibia for 95, with captain Trent Johnston taking six for 23.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group A
Ian van Zyl responded in kind on the following day, taking eight for 34, but Johnston's 71 helped his side from 87 for seven to a total of 173. Namibia then fell to 22 for six, still trailing by 56 runs, but with the help of 48 from Kola Burger they set a target of 54 to win, and Burger then took three wickets as Ireland lost their first four for 25. However, after 21 from Eoin Morgan, Ireland made it to the target with the loss of just one further wicket.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group A
This match, held a week after the European Championship which Ireland won, saw Scotland win the toss and bat at Mannofield Park. Dave Langford-Smith took his first five-wicket haul in first-class cricket, as Scotland were all out for 265. Langford-Smith took the first three wickets as Scotland fell to 58 for four, before Ryan Watson (74) built a stand of 66 with Neil McCallum, the highest of the game; John Blain then made 53 before being last out.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group A
In reply, Ireland reached 129 for two, before losing their last eight wickets for 45 runs as Dougie Brown took a five-wicket haul of his own. However, they reduced Scotland to 24 for four before the second day's close, with captain Trent Johnston taking three of the wickets; they were denied a fifth wicket when Danish umpire Niels Bagh turned down a loud appeal for an edge by McCallum.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group A
Overnight rain then seeped in under the covers, resulting in a damp pitch, and the third day's play was called off. Irish wicket-keeper Niall O'Brien reacted by having words with the Aberdeen groundsman, and a formal report was submitted on the incident. Despite no more rain falling during the hours of play, the fourth day was also called off, and the match declared a draw with Scotland gaining nine points and Ireland three.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Kenya and the Netherlands opened the group stages in Nairobi. Kenya had come off losing all four ODIs in their series against Bangladesh, and had dropped five players, including wicketkeeper Kennedy Otieno who had played 71 ODIs and 29 first-class games for Morris Ouma, following Otieno's total of eight runs on the Bangladesh tour. Otieno vowed to quit international cricket as a result.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
For the Netherlands, Pieter Seelaar and Billy Stelling were unavailable, while Bas Zuiderent recovered from a stomach upset to open the batting and make 26 after Dutch captain Luuk van Troost won the toss at Nairobi Gymkhana and chose to bat. Three more players passed 25 on the first day; Ryan ten Doeschate spent five hours at the crease and made 158, described as "faultless" by CricketEurope correspondent Rod Lyall, while Daan van Bunge added 32 and captain van Troost was unbeaten on 29.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
First-class debutant Ashish Karia got the best figures on the first day, with two for 18, but Lyall claimed Peter Ongondo was the pick of the bowlers. Hitesh Modi broke his finger when attempting to catch Tim de Leede, and according to Lyall, he was "unlikely to take any further part in the match".


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Netherlands made more runs on the second day, with van Troost and Edgar Schiferli sharing an Intercontinental Cup record ninth-wicket partnership worth 95. During the partnership, the Dutch also surpassed the previous highest Intercontinental Cup total, of 444 for 4 between Ireland and UAE. They were eventually bowled out for 474, Schiferli hitting to Collins Obuya for 69, and Kenya got a chance to bat shortly before tea. They faced 52 second-day overs, with five batsmen making it into double figures, but only captain Steve Tikolo could convert it into a score past 25, as the Dutch snared five wickets.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Darron Reekers got the best bowling figures, with two for 28. Reekers failed to take any wickets on the third day, however, when Kenya fought back – they scored 197 runs on that day, for the loss of four wickets (compared to 135 for 5 on the first), with Peter Ongondo lasting two and a half hours in a 123-run eighth-wicket stand with Tikolo. Netherlands then got two wickets in successive overs, and Kenya were 315 for 9, nine short of the follow on with the injured Modi still in the pavilion. He stepped out with one arm in a strap, batting one-handed to see out the day as Kenya totalled 332 for 9.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Modi and Tikolo put on 35 more before Modi was out to van Bunge, who thus ended with the best bowling figures for the Netherlands, with his three for 51, while Tikolo was not out on 212, his second double century in the Intercontinental Cup. It left the Netherlands with a lead of 107, and as they did not want to give Kenya the 14 points available for the win, they batted out the day for a draw. Van Bunge ended unbeaten on 70, while five Kenyan bowlers got a wicket each, and when stumps were drawn on the final day Netherlands were 202 for 5.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Kenya's next match was against Canada in Toronto, in what became a "tense" match. Canada opted to bat first on a "green and...underprepared pitch", and were 102 for seven after seamers Peter Ongondo, Thomas Odoyo and Nehemiah Odhiambo had shared out the opening seven wickets. Qaiser Ali fought back with a first-class best of 91 not out, however, eventually running out of batting partners as Ongondo, Steve Tikolo and debutant Hiren Varaiya, a slow left arm bowler, took the final wickets. However, Kenya lost their first four wickets for 14 runs in the poor light (which caused play to end 20 minutes early), with both openers out without having made a run. Henry Osinde and Umar Bhatti caused the damage, with two wickets each.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
On the second day, Tanmay Mishra nearly emulated Ali; he also made an unbeaten half-century from number seven, but ran out of partners six runs short of Ali's tally. After a 41-run tenth-wicket stand, Varaiya was caught by Pubudu Dassanayake to leave Kenya four short of Canada's total, which gave the hosts six points for the first innings lead.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Canada closed the second day on 52 for one, with captain John Davison out caught. Early on the third day, nightwatchman Bhatti was out for 6. Opener Geoff Barnett - who had made 11 first-class appearances for Central Districts Stags in New Zealand without scoring a century - then reached 136, putting on 86 with Stewart Heaney (12) and 112 with Ashish Bagai (57). However, his dismissal - bowled by first-class debutant Odhiambo - sparked a collapse, as Canada lost their last seven wickets for 26 runs. Odhiambo claimed four more wickets to complete a five-wicket haul on debut.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Kenya were left needing 291 for victory, but lost two wickets before the end of the third day: recalled opener Kennedy Otieno completed a pair of ducks, and Brijal Patel was caught behind for 9. There was also a rejected stumping appeal against Tikolo.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
The final day's play "ebbed and flowed throughout". First, Tikolo and Tony Suji took their third-wicket stand to 75 before Tikolo was bowled by Davison for 50, and Suji was caught for 33. Hitesh Modi (41) and Collins Obuya then added 59 before Modi was caught and bowled by 42-year-old spinner Puvendran Ravishankar, who then took the wicket of Mishra. With 102 required and four wickets in hand, Bhatti returned to bowl, and had Odoyo and Odhiambo caught within three minutes.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Obuya now had two batting partners remaining: Ongondo lasted for 40 minutes without scoring a single run, and Varaiya lasted a similar length of time. Obuya had taken his score to a first-class best 89, and Kenya to within 26 runs of victory, when he was caught at slip by Barnett, giving Bhatti his sixth wicket of the innings and tenth of the match. Barnett and Bhatti shared the Man of the Match award.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Umar Bhatti took his second successive ten-wicket haul, helping Canada to a nine-wicket win against Bermuda. In the highest-scoring match of the tournament, with 1292 runs for 31 wickets, Canada prevailed to further extend their lead in the group, putting Kenya out of the tournament.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Bermuda batted first, and lost both openers for single-figure scores, but Clay Smith put on 99 with Irving Romaine before both were caught behind with the score stuck on 120. Dean Minors was also caught for a single-figure score, Bhatti's fourth wicket, but after that he could not take any further wickets, and Janeiro Tucker and Saleem Mukuddem made their way towards half-centuries, sharing a stand of 83 for the sixth wicket. John Davison eventually had Mukuddem out, and also Lionel Cann, two runs before he could reach his 50, and Henry Osinde took the final wicket to bowl Bermuda out for 334.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
In response, Canada piled on hundreds. Davison made 165 opening the innings, leading Canada to 286 for three when he was dismissed, and sharing a stand of 230 with Ian Billcliff who went on to total 126. Ryan Steede grabbed four wickets, including Billcliff bowled, but could not stop the eighth-wicket stand between Abdool Samad (119) and Umar Bhatti (50). The two scored 149 for the eighth wicket, increasing Canada's first innings lead past 200, while Bermuda's spinner Dwayne Leverock had to bowl nearly 49 overs for two wickets, Bhatti and the No. 11 Ravishankar.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
Bermuda closed the third day on 68 for one, with opener Steven Outerbridge on 35 not out. He added nine before he was caught by a substitute fielder, but Romaine, his batting partner, went on to make 65 before falling to the same fate. Clay Smith kept batting for the draw, but was seventh out to Davison, while Bhatti picked up six wickets for 104 to complete his second ten-wicket haul in a month.


2006–07 ICC Intercontinental Cup, Results, Group B
The match closed with two days of rain, though Bermuda had already lost their chance to qualify for the semi-finals early on the second day, after being bowled out for 133 and Kenya surpassed that score for the loss of three wickets. Thomas Odoyo took five wickets for Kenya in the first innings, and though Saleem Mukuddem responded with three on the first day and three on the second, Kenya made it to 205 all out after 66 from Steve Tikolo and 54 from Tanmay Mishra. After batting through 15 overs for no loss, Bermuda lost two wickets in an over to Hiren Varaiya and were 19 for two when bad conditions stopped play on the second day. The players could not return, and the game was called off as a draw.


2006–07 ICC Women's Quadrangular Series
The 2006–07 ICC Women's Quadrangular Series was a four team One Day International cricket tournament hosted by India and featuring Australia, England, India and New Zealand. All of the matches are to be played in Chennai, at the IIT Chemplast Ground and the MA Chidambaram Stadium, between 21 February and 5 May 2007.


2006–07 ICC Women's Quadrangular Series, Group Stage Table, Points System
Win = 4 pointsTie or No Result = 2 pointsBonus = 1 pointLoss = 0 points


2006–07 ICC Women's Quadrangular Series, Group Stage Table, Points System
If the team batting first wins the match and restricts its opponents to 80% of its total, it gains a bonus point. If the team batting second wins the match in 40 overs, it gains a bonus point.


2006–07 ICC Women's Quadrangular Series, Group Stage Table, Points System
A team's run rate will be calculated by reference to the runs scored in an innings divided by the number of overs faced.


2006–07 ICC Women's Quadrangular Series, Group Stage Table, Points System
In the event of teams finishing on equal points, the right to play in the final will be determined as follows:


2006–07 ICC Women's Quadrangular Series, Group Stage Table, Points System
- If still equal, the team with the most wins over the other team(s) who are equal on points and have the same number of wins.


2006–07 ICC Women's Quadrangular Series, Group Stage Table, Points System
- If still equal, the team with the highest number of bonus points.


2006–07 ICC Women's Quadrangular Series, Group Stage Table, Points System
- If still equal, the team with the highest net run rate.


2006–07 IIHF Continental Cup
The Continental Cup 2006–07 was the tenth edition of the IIHF Continental Cup. The season started on September 22, 2006, and finished on January 7, 2007.


2006–07 IIHF Continental Cup
The tournament was won by Yunost Minsk, who led the final group.


2006–07 IIHF Continental Cup
The points system used in this tournament was: the winner in regular time won 3 points, the loser 0 points; in case of a tie, an overtime and a penalty shootout is played, the winner in penalty shootouts or overtime won 2 points and the loser won 1 point.


2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series
2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series was the eighth of an annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for full national sides run by the International Rugby Board since 1999–2000.


2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series
New Zealand won the 2006–07 series by winning the final tournament in Edinburgh. In that event, the then-defending series champions Fiji would have clinched the season crown by defeating Wales in the Cup quarterfinals. However, a Wales upset win opened the door for New Zealand to take the season crown by winning the Cup in Edinburgh, which they did.


2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series
Sevens is traditionally played in a two-day tournament format; however, the most famous event, the Hong Kong Sevens, is played over three days.


2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series, Calendar
The Australia and Scotland events are new for 2006-07. The Australia event effectively replaces Singapore, and the Scotland event effectively replaces the Paris Sevens.


2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series, The season
In a normal event, 16 teams are entered; in Hong Kong, 24 teams enter. In each tournament, the teams are divided into pools of four teams, who play a round-robin within the pool. Points are awarded in each pool on a different schedule from most rugby tournaments—3 for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for a loss. The first tiebreaker is the head-to-head result between the tied teams, followed by difference in points scored during the tournament.


2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series, The season
Four trophies are awarded in each tournament, except for Hong Kong. In descending order of prestige, they are the Cup, whose winner is the overall tournament champion, Plate, Bowl and Shield. In Hong Kong, the Shield is not awarded. Each trophy is awarded at the end of a knockout tournament.


2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series, The season
In a normal event, the top two teams in each pool advance to the Cup competition. The four quarterfinal losers drop into the bracket for the Plate. The Bowl is contested by the third-place finishers in each pool, while the Shield is contested by the last-place teams from each pool.


2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series, The season
In Hong Kong, the six pool winners, plus the two highest-finishing second-place teams, advance to the Cup. The Plate participants are the eight highest-ranked teams remaining, while the lowest eight drop to the Bowl.


2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series, Points schedule
The season championship is determined by points earned in each tournament. For most events, points are awarded on the following schedule:


2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series, Points schedule
Points are awarded on a different schedule for the Hong Kong Sevens:


2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
The 2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating was a series of international invitational competitions in the first half of the 2006–07 figure skating season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice dancing over six events. Skaters earned a certain number of points per placement and the top six scoring skaters at the end of the series qualified for the 2006–07 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final.


2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
The Grand Prix series set the stage for the 2007 European Figure Skating Championships, the 2007 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, the 2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, and the 2007 World Figure Skating Championships, as well as each country's national championships. The Grand Prix series began on 26 October 2006 and ended on 17 December 2006.


2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
The Grand Prix was organized by the International Skating Union. Skaters competed for prize money and for a chance to compete in the Grand Prix Final. The corresponding series for Junior-level skaters was the 2006–07 ISU Junior Grand Prix.


2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Qualifying
Skaters who reached the age of 14 by July 1, 2006 were eligible to compete on the senior Grand Prix circuit. The top six skaters from the 2006 World Figure Skating Championships were seeded and were guaranteed two events. Skaters who placed 7th through 12th were also given two events, though they were not considered seeded.


2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Qualifying
Skaters/teams who medaled at the 2005–06 Junior Grand Prix Final or the 2006 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were guaranteed one event. Skaters were medaled at both the Junior Grand Prix Final and the World Junior Championships were guaranteed only one event.


2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Qualifying
The host country was allowed to send three skaters/teams of their choosing in each discipline.


2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Points
After the final event, the NHK Trophy, the six skaters/teams with the most points advanced to the Grand Prix Final. The point system was as follows:


2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Points
If a pairs team competed in more than two events, the teams who scored below them in their non-scoring competition did not automatically move up in gaining points. For example, if Team A placed second below Team B, and it was Team B's non-scoring event, Team A still earned 13 points, not 15.


2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Points
Skaters had to compete in two events to qualify for the Final.


2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, Prize money
The total prize money is $180,000 per individual event and $272,000 for the Final. All amounts are in U.S. dollars. Pairs and dance teams split the money. The breakdown is as follows:


2006–07 ISU Junior Grand Prix
The 2006–07 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the tenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the Junior-level complement to the 2006–07 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for Senior-level skaters. Skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The top skaters from the series met at the Junior Grand Prix Final.


2006–07 ISU Junior Grand Prix
Skaters who reached the age of 13 by July 1, 2006 but had not turned 19 (singles and females of the other two disciplines) or 21 (male pair skaters and ice dancers) were eligible to compete on the junior circuit.


2006–07 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Competitions
The locations of the JGP events change yearly. In the 2006–07 season, the series was composed of the following events:


2006–07 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Junior Grand Prix Final qualifiers
The following skaters qualified for the 2006–07 Junior Grand Prix Final, in order of qualification.


2006–07 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Junior Grand Prix Final qualifiers
Devora Radeva was given the host wildcard spot to the Junior Grand Prix Final.


2006–07 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup
The 2007 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season for short track speed skating. The season began on 20 October 2006 and ended on 11 February 2007. The World Cup was organised by the ISU who also ran world cups and championships in speed skating and figure skating.


2006–07 ISU Speed Skating World Cup
The 2006–07 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was a multi-race tournament over a season of speed skating. The season began on 10 November 2006 and lasted until 4 March 2007. The World Cup was organised by the ISU, who also run world cups and championships in short track speed skating and figure skating.


2006–07 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, Men's overall results, 100 m
Final standings after 4 of 4 races. Oikawa won despite missing the final race due to participation in the 2007 Asian Winter Games; Koskela opted out of the final race, though a place in the final would have won him the World Cup.


2006–07 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, Men's overall results, 500 m
Final standings after 12 of 12 races. The top 15 skaters are listed, as well as those with a top-six placing in a race.


2006–07 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, Women's overall results, 500 m
Final standings after 12 races. The top 15 skaters are listed, as well as those with a top-six placing in a race.


2006–07 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, Women's overall results, 1000 m
Many skaters skipped the races in Harbin and Nagano, where nearly 40% of the available points were up for grabs. The overall World Cup winner, Chiara Simionato, was defeated by Anni Friesinger, Ireen Wüst, Christine Nesbitt or Cindy Klassen in all races in which the four took part. Friesinger won four of her five races during the season, taking the most wins.


2006–07 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, Women's overall results, 1500 m
Due to winning the final race, Wüst finished ahead of Friesinger, though Friesinger accumulated four wins to Wüst's two during the season.


2006–07 ISU World Standings
The 2006–07 ISU World Standings, are the World Standings published by the International Skating Union (ISU) during the 2006–07 season.


2006–07 ISU World Standings
The 2006–07 ISU World Standings for single & pair skating and ice dance, are taking into account results of the 2004–05, 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons.


2006–07 ISU World Standings, World Standings for single & pair skating and ice dance, Season-end standings
The remainder of this section is a list, by discipline, published by the ISU.


2006–07 Icelandic Hockey League season
The 2006-07 Icelandic Hockey League season was the 16th season of the Icelandic Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Iceland. Three teams participated in the league, and Skautafelag Reykjavikur won the championship.


2006–07 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team
The 2006–07 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team represented the University of Idaho during the 2006–07 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), the Vandals were led by first-year head coach George Pfeifer and played their home games on campus at Cowan Spectrum in Moscow, Idaho.


2006–07 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team
The Vandals were 3–26 overall in the regular season and 1–15 in conference play, ninth in the standings.


2006–07 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team
Riding a twelve-game losing streak after a loss to San Jose State, Idaho drew the eighth seed Spartans again two days later in the play-in round of the conference tournament in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and won by a point. Two days later in the quarterfinal, top-seeded #10 Nevada defeated the Vandals by 32 points.


2006–07 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team
The 2006–07 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the 2006–07 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Bruce Weber's fourth season at Illinois. The team finished with 9–7 conference and 21–10 overall records. The Illini advanced to the semifinal round of the Big Ten Tournament and were eliminated in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.


2006–07 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team
The 2006–07 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team represented Illinois State University during the 2006–07 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Redbirds, led by fourth year head coach Porter Moser, played their home games at Redbird Arena and competed as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference.


2006–07 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team
They finished the season 15–16, 6–12 in conference play to finish in a tie for seventh place. They were the number seven seed for the 2007 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament. They were defeated by Indiana State University in their opening round game.


2006–07 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team
The 2006–07 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University in the 2006–07 college basketball season. Their head coach was Kelvin Sampson, in his first season with the Hoosiers. Sampson, formerly at Oklahoma was hired on March 29, 2006 to replace the recently resigned Mike Davis. The team played its home games at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers finished the season with an overall record 21–11 and a conference record of 10–6, placing them 3rd in the Big Ten Conference. Indiana lost the only Big Ten Tournament game in which they played, an overtime loss to Illinois. As a 7-seed in the NCAA Tournament, Indiana beat 10-seed Gonzaga to advance to the second round. They would fall to 2-seed UCLA to end the season.


2006–07 Indiana Pacers season
The 2006–07 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana's 31st season in the NBA and 40th season as a franchise. They began the season hoping to improve upon their 41-41 output from the previous season. However, they came six wins shy of tying it, finishing 35-47. The Pacers would miss the playoffs for the first time since 1997.


2006–07 Indiana Pacers season, Season Summary
During the Summer of 2006, the Pacers lost Peja Stojakovic, whom they had just acquired in a trade from the Sacramento Kings during the previous season, in free agency to the New Orleans Hornets. Because of this, they were granted a trade exception by the NBA, which they used to re-acquire former Pacer Al Harrington from the Atlanta Hawks. They also pulled off two separate trades with the Dallas Mavericks, giving up established veterans Anthony Johnson and Austin Croshere for unexplained reasons.


2006–07 Indiana Pacers season, Season Summary
These two trades were disappointing to Pacers fans, who were confused by the trades and saw them as one-sided in the favor of the Mavericks. In June 2006, once-promising talent Jonathan Bender announced that he was retiring from the NBA at the age of 25, due to his struggles with knee injuries. The Pacers had traded All-Star big man Antonio Davis to acquire Bender in 1999 when he was an 18-year-old rookie with great potential, but his constant injuries had prevented him from ever developing.


2006–07 Indiana Pacers season, Season Summary
When the regular season finally started, the Pacers had a significantly different roster than they did at the end of the previous season. The Pacers hovered around the .500 mark for most of the season, and were a borderline playoff team. In January 2007, the Pacers pulled off another major trade, this time with the Golden State Warriors, giving up troubled swingman Stephen Jackson, Al Harrington, and other pieces for versatile big man Troy Murphy and unproven swingman Mike Dunleavy as well as some other pieces.


2006–07 Indiana Pacers season, Season Summary
This trade was perceived as the only way for the Pacers to finally part ways with Jackson, who had lost the respect of Pacers fans due to his involvement in "The Brawl" and in a shooting at an Indianapolis nightclub. After the trade, the Pacers fell downward in the standings, marked by an 11-game losing streak which stretched from late February to mid-March, and eventually were eliminated from qualification for the 2007 NBA Playoffs.


2006–07 Indiana Pacers season, Season Summary
This would be the first time the Pacers missed the playoffs since the 1996-97 season, and the first of a streak of four seasons of missing the playoffs. Ironically, the perennial basement-dweller Warriors wound up making the playoffs for the first time since the 1993-94 season, and even advanced to the second round by upsetting the first-seeded Mavericks 4-2 in the first round. This left the dwindling community of Pacers fans with a sour taste in their mouths as they wondered how far the team might have gone if the trade in January had not occurred. Thus, coach Rick Carlisle was fired at the conclusion of the Pacers' season in April, and it was announced in May that Jim O'Brien, former head coach of the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers, would replace him as the Pacers' head coach for the next season.


2006–07 Inter Milan season
The 2006–07 season was Football Club Internazionale Milano's 98th in existence and 91th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian football. The team competed in Serie A, in the Coppa Italia, in the Supercoppa Italiana and in the UEFA Champions League.


2006–07 Inter Milan season, Season overview
The relegation of Juventus to Serie B due to Calciopoli, and Milan and Fiorentina's penalisations, made Inter a clear favourite for the title: the side was empowered with the arrivals of Zlatan Ibrahimović, Patrick Vieira, Fabio Grosso and Maicon. In early September, the club suffered a tragedy: Inter's president Giacinto Facchetti died at the age of 64, due to a cancer.


2006–07 Inter Milan season, Season overview
The 2006–07 season was signed by records: Inter won 17 games in row for an achievement still unbeaten. Inter also got 11 wins in away matches and obtained the title with 5 games left to play. The side ended with 97 points, 22 over Roma which came second: in 38 matches Inter collected 30 wins, 7 draws and just one defeat (the first in Serie A since April 2006).


2006–07 Inter Milan season, Players, Squad information, From youth squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2006–07 Interliga season
The 2006–07 Interliga season was the eighth and final season of the multi-national ice hockey league. A total of 10 teams participated, five in Group A, and five in Group B. Alba Volan Szekesfehervar have won Group A and Jesenice have won Group B.


2006–07 Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. season
Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. in their 13th season in Scottish football competing in the Scottish Premier League, Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup in season 2006–07.


2006–07 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team
The 2006–07 Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team represented the University of Iowa as members of the Big Ten Conference during the 2006–07 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was led by eighth-year head coach Steve Alford and played their home games at Carver–Hawkeye Arena. The Hawkeyes finished the season 17–14 overall and 9–7 in Big Ten play (tied for fourth place). This marked the first time since the 1976–1977 season that an Iowa men's basketball team with a winning record failed to make either the NCAA tournament or the NIT.


2006–07 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team
The 2006–07 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represents Iowa State University during the 2006–07 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cyclones were coached by Greg McDermott, who was in his 1st season. They played their home games at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa and competed in the Big 12 Conference.


2006–07 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team, Previous season
The Cyclones finished 16-14, 6-10 in Big 12 play to finish 8th the regular season conference standings. They lost to Colorado in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament.


2006–07 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team, Previous season
On March 17, 2006 it was announced that Wayne Morgan and his staff would be fired by the university. While lack of results played into the decision there were other contributing factors. While Morgan was a high level recruiter, on the court success did not follow as it should have. In addition, Morgan and his staff had used a company called 'D1 Scheduling' to schedule games in the past seasons. There were allegations that money was being exchanged for recruits.


2006–07 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team, Previous season
On March 21, 2006 it was announced that Greg McDermott, then head coach of the UNI Panthers, would be hired as head coach of the Cyclones.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season
The 2006–07 season was the 62nd full season of league football for Ipswich Town. The club played in the Football League Championship for the 2006–07 season, whilst also competing in the FA Cup and League Cup.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, Pre-season
The 2006–07 season was a transitional season for Ipswich Town. Joe Royle left his position as manager and was replaced by Jim Magilton on 5 June 2006, who was making the move from player to manager. Magilton continued to be registered as a player at the club although he would only feature in the first-team in an emergency situation. Following his appointment he stated that he was intending to play in reserve team games to use his experience to help the club's young players develop. Bryan Klug was appointed as first-team coach alongside Magilton. He thanked Ipswich's fans for the positive reaction to his appointment once he had been revealed as the club's new manager.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, Pre-season
"I have had a fantastic response from the fans and I would like to thank them for that.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, Pre-season
"I've had a great rapport with the supporters of this club since I first came here as a player and have been lifted again by the support I have had since taking over as manager.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, Pre-season
"I think in many ways the fans at the club are the most passionate in the Championship because they care so much about everything that happens here.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, Pre-season
"This is a community and Ipswich Town Football Club is the focal point and the people of the town want the club to be successful.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, Pre-season
"I want it to be successful as well, so do my coaching staff, and I can tell you that the players will be the same. We will be giving it everything to take this club forward."


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, Pre-season
Following his appointment as manager, Magilton named Canadian international centre-back Jason de Vos as Ipswich's new club captain. Magilton also appointed new members to his coaching and back-room staff. Steve Foley was appointed as a coach on 9 June, who had been appointed to work with both the academy and first-team, club physio Dave Williams was named the head of Ipswich's newly created sports science department.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, Pre-season
Ipswich were still financially recovering from administration, with limited funds restricting the playing budget. Magilton's first signing as manager saw Alex Bruce arrive from Birmingham City on a free transfer on 2 August 2006. Ian Westlake was sold to Leeds United on 4 August for a reported fee of £400,000, potentially rising to £500,000 with add-ons, in a deal which also saw Dan Harding move in the other direction, signing a three-year deal with Ipswich. French midfielder Sylvain Legwinski also joined on a free transfer from Fulham on 31 August, signing a two year contract with the club.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, Pre-season
Stikers Sam Parkin and Nicky Forster also debarted for fees, joining Luton Town and Hull City respectively before the end of August. Magilton also utilized the loan market, with midfielders Simon Walton and Mark Noble joining on loan from Charlton Athletic and West Ham United respectively. Republic of Ireland striker Jon Macken also joined on loan until January from Crystal Palace.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, August to December
The season began on the 5 August, with Magilton taking charge of his first game as Ipswich Town manager at home to Crystal Palace at Portman Road. Despite taking the lead through a first-half goal from the previos seasons top scorer Nicky Forster, Ipswich suffered a 1–2 opening day defeat due to second-half goals from Jobi McAnuff and former Ipswich Town striker James Scowcroft. The tough start to the season continued for Magilton's Ipswich as they lost the following two games away to Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leicester City.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, August to December
A 0–0 draw with Hull City followed before Ipswich earned their first victory of the season, defeating Queens Park Rangers 3–1 away at Loftus Road, with goals from Simon Walton, Jason de Vos and Dean Bowditch. Following Magilton's first win as Ipswich manager, the team went on  to win the following two games, with home victories over Southampton and Coventry City.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, August to December
The first three months of the season saw Ipswich pick up six wins, three draws and six losses from their opening fifteen league games. Whilst also exiting the league cup 2–4 on penalties at the first round stage to Peterborough United, following a 2–2 draw after extra time. On 29 October, Ipswich defeated Luton Town 5–0 at Portman Road, with Alan Lee scoring a Hat-trick, this was the team's largest winning margin of the season. The 19 November saw the first East Anglian derby of the season take place, with Ipswich facing local rivals Norwich City at Portman Road.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, August to December
Despite going behind in the 26th minute to a goal from Luke Chadwick, Sylvain Legwinski equalized for Ipswich in the 40th minute, leaveing the game at 1–1 going into half-time. With the game tied at 1–1, Ipswich academy graduate Danny Haynes came on as a substitute for Billy Clarke in the 76th minute and scored within a minute of entering onto the pitch, putting Ipswich 2–1 ahead. Haynes scored again in the 90th minute with a curling shot from the edge of the 18 yard box that went in off the post.


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, August to December
Ipswich defeated Norwich City 3–1 in the East Anglian Derby. After the match Magilton said of Haynes: "Danny Haynes will get hero status here and seems to enjoy local derbies. I felt it was time to put him on because the pitch was strength-sapping and Danny's pace will always cause problems against tired legs."


2006–07 Ipswich Town F.C. season, Season summary, January transfer window
The January transfer window saw multiple new signings join the club. The first deal to take place was the permanent signing of midfielder Gary Roberts from Accrington Stanley, following a successful loan spell. Defender David Wright was signed from Wigan Athletic on 11 January for an undisclosed fee, whilst George O'Callaghan was also signed from League of Ireland side Cork City following a four month spell of training with Ipswich. The club's final permanent deal of the January transfer window was the signing of Jonathan Walters from Chester City for a reported fee of £100,000.