# List of AFL debuts in 2006

This is a listing of Australian rules footballers to have made their debut with a club for the Australian Football League season 2006.

## Debuts

| Name | Club | Age at debut | Round debuted | Games (to end of 2016) | Goals (to end of 2016) | Notes |
| Jason Porplyzia | Adelaide | 21 years, 153 days | 5 | 130 | 181 | |
| Bernie Vince | Adelaide | 20 years, 183 days | 1 | 129 | 80 | |
| Ivan Maric | Adelaide | 20 years, 122 days | 6 | 77 | 28 | |
| Joel Patfull | Brisbane Lions | 21 years, 165 days | 8 | 182 | 24 | |
| Cheynee Stiller | Brisbane Lions | 19 years, 345 days | 3 | 100 | 21 | |
| Mitch Clark | Brisbane Lions | 18 years, 164 days | 1 | 82 | 61 | |
| Jason Roe | Brisbane Lions | 22 years, 55 days | 6 | 50 | 7 | |
| Scott Harding | Brisbane Lions | 19 years, 286 days | 1 | 48 | 15 | |
| Rhan Hooper | Brisbane Lions | 18 years, 89 days | 2 | 48 | 49 | |
| Colm Begley | Brisbane Lions | 19 years, 354 days | 20 | 29 | 7 | |
| Ben Fixter | Brisbane Lions | 24 years, 282 days | 1 | 27 | 3 | Previously played for Sydney. |
| Wayde Mills | Brisbane Lions | 18 years, 222 days | 2 | 16 | 3 | |
| Martin Pask | Brisbane Lions | 21 years, 159 days | 11 | 8 | 4 | |
| Marc Murphy | Carlton | 18 years, 257 days | 1 | 214 | 157 | Son of John Murphy. |
| Paul Bower | Carlton | 18 years, 230 days | 21 | 45 | 2 | |
| Luke Blackwell | Carlton | 19 years, 193 days | 8 | 23 | 4 | Son of Wayne Blackwell. |
| Josh Kennedy | Carlton | 18 years, 255 days | 6 | 22 | 11 | |
| Jason Saddington | Carlton | 26 years, 174 days | 7 | 20 | 6 | Previously played for Sydney. |
| Dylan McLaren | Carlton | 23 years, 329 days | 1 | 13 | 4 | Previously played for Brisbane. |
| Ryan Jackson | Carlton | 19 years, 152 days | 22 | 9 | 3 | |
| Jesse D. Smith | Carlton | 20 years, 281 days | 20 | 2 | 0 | |
| Scott Pendlebury | Collingwood | 18 years, 147 days | 10 | 236 | 152 | |
| Dale Thomas | Collingwood | 18 years, 286 days | 1 | 157 | 121 | |
| Sam Iles | Collingwood | 19 years, 47 days | 18 | 7 | 0 | |
| Patrick Ryder | Essendon | 18 years, 18 days | 1 | 170 | 117 | |
| Courtenay Dempsey | Essendon | 18 years, 259 days | 7 | 133 | 35 | |
| Sam Lonergan | Essendon | 19 years, 111 days | 15 | 79 | 39 | |
| Scott Camporeale | Essendon | 30 years, 233 days | 1 | 19 | 5 | Previously played for Carlton. |
| Richard Cole | Essendon | 23 years, 14 days | 17 | 7 | 0 | Previously played for Collingwood. |
| Andrew Lee | Essendon | 19 years, 364 days | 13 | 5 | 2 | |
| Ben Jolley | Essendon | 20 years, 153 days | 15 | 4 | 0 | |
| Paul Duffield | Fremantle | 21 years, 84 days | 5 | 171 | 33 | |
| Marcus Drum | Fremantle | 19 years, 61 days | 13 | 22 | 6 | Son of Damian Drum. |
| Adam Campbell | Fremantle | 21 years, 129 days | 10 | 13 | 13 | |
| Michael Warren | Fremantle | 24 years, 54 days | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
| Mathew Stokes | Geelong | 21 years, 186 days | 9 | 189 | 203 | |
| Brent Prismall | Geelong | 19 years, 289 days | 5 | 25 | 15 | |
| Ryan Gamble | Geelong | 18 years, 345 days | 22 | 24 | 31 | |
| Matthew Spencer | Geelong | 21 years, 143 days | 11 | 2 | 0 | |
| Grant Birchall | Hawthorn | 18 years, 64 days | 1 | 240 | 33 | |
| Brent Guerra | Hawthorn | 23 years, 308 days | 1 | 159 | 25 | Previously played for Port Adelaide and St Kilda. |
| Ben McGlynn | Hawthorn | 20 years, 301 days | 10 | 44 | 28 | |
| Max Bailey | Hawthorn | 19 years, 287 days | 18 | 43 | 10 | |
| Beau Dowler | Hawthorn | 18 years, 233 days | 18 | 16 | 11 | |
| Andrew Swallow | Kangaroos | 18 years, 352 days | 8 | 208 | 76 | |
| Josh Gibson | Kangaroos | 22 years, 19 days | 1 | 65 | 2 | |
| Kasey Green | Kangaroos | 26 years, 203 days | 1 | 39 | 15 | Previously played for West Coast. |
| Ed Lower | Kangaroos | 19 years, 28 days | 16 | 34 | 15 | Brother of Nick Lower. |
| Ben Schwarze | Kangaroos | 22 years, 263 days | 7 | 11 | 2 | Brother of Troy Schwarze. |
| Jonathan Hay | Kangaroos | 26 years, 231 days | 1 | 8 | 0 | Previously played for Hawthorn. |
| Joel Perry | Kangaroos | 20 years, 294 days | 2 | 8 | 0 | |
| Cameron Thurley | Kangaroos | 24 years, 126 days | 1 | 5 | 0 | Previously played for Geelong. |
| Daniel McConnell | Kangaroos | 20 years, 52 days | 19 | 4 | 0 | Previously played for West Coast. |
| Jade Rawlings | Kangaroos | 28 years, 238 days | 10 | 3 | 2 | Previously played for Hawthorn and the Western Bulldogs. Brother of Brady Rawlings. |
| Brad Moran | Kangaroos | 19 years, 331 days | 21 | 3 | 0 | |
| Nathan Jones | Melbourne | 18 years, 191 days | 17 | 223 | 105 | |
| Lynden Dunn | Melbourne | 18 years, 356 days | 6 | 165 | 97 | |
| Clint Bartram | Melbourne | 18 years, 45 days | 1 | 103 | 17 | |
| Matthew Bate | Melbourne | 18 years, 340 days | 5 | 102 | 98 | |
| Matthew Warnock | Melbourne | 22 years, 13 days | 3 | 51 | 1 | |
| Byron Pickett | Melbourne | 28 years, 234 days | 1 | 29 | 16 | Previously played for Kangaroos and Port Adelaide. |
| Alipate Carlile | Port Adelaide | 19 years, 84 days | 16 | 167 | 5 | |
| Tom Logan | Port Adelaide | 21 years, 14 days | 15 | 114 | 27 | Previously played for Brisbane. |
| Daniel Motlop | Port Adelaide | 24 years, 16 days | 1 | 83 | 155 | Previously played for Kangaroos. Brother of Shannon Motlop. |
| Nathan Lonie | Port Adelaide | 23 years, 36 days | 2 | 40 | 16 | Previously played for Hawthorn. Brother of Ryan Lonie. |
| Matt Thomas | Port Adelaide | 19 years, 131 days | 14 | 29 | 7 | |
| Greg Bentley | Port Adelaide | 19 years, 125 days | 19 | 21 | 6 | |
| Nick Lower | Port Adelaide | 19 years, 50 days | 19 | 20 | 0 | Brother of Ed Lower. |
| Fabian Deluca | Port Adelaide | 19 years, 93 days | 8 | 11 | 1 | Brother of Adrian Deluca. |
| James Ezard | Port Adelaide | 20 years, 58 days | 8 | 4 | 1 | |
| Ryan Willits | Port Adelaide | 19 years, 207 days | 20 | 3 | 1 | |
| Elijah Ware | Port Adelaide | 23 years, 64 days | 8 | 2 | 1 | |
| Luke McGuane | Richmond | 19 years, 90 days | 7 | 105 | 39 | |
| Matthew White | Richmond | 19 years, 49 days | 10 | 105 | 54 | |
| Dean Polo | Richmond | 19 years, 274 days | 6 | 56 | 11 | |
| Patrick Bowden | Richmond | 24 years, 239 days | 1 | 25 | 15 | Previously played for Western Bulldogs. Son of Michael Bowden. Brother of Sean and Joel Bowden. |
| Cameron Howat | Richmond | 21 years, 187 days | 18 | 21 | 10 | |
| Cleve Hughes | Richmond | 19 years, 103 days | 5 | 16 | 23 | |
| Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls | Richmond | 18 years, 86 days | 6 | 13 | 1 | |
| Jeremy Humm | Richmond | 23 years, 100 days | 3 | 1 | 0 | Previously played for West Coast. |
| Sam Gilbert | St Kilda | 19 years, 275 days | 8 | 179 | 36 | |
| Michael Rix | St Kilda | 25 years, 153 days | 11 | 29 | 3 | |
| Fergus Watts | St Kilda | 20 years, 190 days | 1 | 1 | 1 | Previously played for Adelaide. |
| Ted Richards | Sydney | 23 years, 80 days | 1 | 228 | 15 | Previously played for Essendon. |
| Heath Grundy | Sydney | 20 years, 50 days | 16 | 70 | 18 | |
| Tim Schmidt | Sydney | 20 years, 137 days | 17 | 17 | 12 | |
| Paul Chambers | Sydney | 23 years, 282 days | 1 | 12 | 0 | Previously played for Geelong. |
| Simon Phillips | Sydney | 19 years, 101 days | 15 | 5 | 2 | |
| Matt Priddis | West Coast | 21 years, 74 days | 10 | 219 | 67 | |
| Shannon Hurn | West Coast | 18 years, 237 days | 5 | 200 | 49 | |
| Steven Armstrong | West Coast | 22 years, 171 days | 13 | 36 | 27 | Previously played for Melbourne. |
| Shaun Higgins | Western Bulldogs | 18 years, 83 days | 9 | 129 | 128 | |
| Damien McCormack | Western Bulldogs | 19 years, 169 days | 15 | 4 | 0 | |
| Travis Baird | Western Bulldogs | 19 years, 363 days | 16 | 3 | 4 | Previously played for Brisbane. |