This is a list of players who graduated from the Challenge Tour in 2006. The top 20 players on the Challenge Tour's money list in 2006 earned their European Tour card for 2007.

	2006 Challenge Tour		2007 European Tour
Player	Money list rank	Earnings (€)	Starts	Cuts made	Best finish	Money list rank	Earnings (€)
Mark Pilkington	1	119,152	33	13	T6	136	175,085
Johan Axgren	2	105,699	29	12	T15	170	118,696
Alex Norén*	3	99,631	28	13	T3	63	472,336
Martin Kaymer*	4	93,321	29	16	T2	41	754,691
James Hepworth	5	84,236	30	11	T16	164	136,173
Kyron Sullivan*	6	83,364	30	12	T12	131	180,643
Rafael Echenique*	7	82,737	28	12	2	113	227,069
Juan Parrón*	8	71,089	27	9	T13	183	81,554
Sam Walker	9	69,853	31	12	T4	80	341,293
Marcus Higley*	10	67,851	31	13	T2	151	151,185
Shaun P. Webster	11	65,536	25	7	T18	204	53,786
Gary Lockerbie*	12	64,073	30	13	T5	144	162,709
Rafa Cabrera-Bello*	13	62,849	33	16	T18	134	178,927
James Heath*	14	60,346	29	11	T4	152	150,758
Gareth Davies*	15	60,189	25	9	T9	181	86,887
Lee S. James	16	59,704	23	7	T10	202	56,775
Jean-Baptiste Gonnet*	17	59,343	24	13	T2	90	292,379
Álvaro Quirós*	18	57,278	13	7	Win	102	259,350
Mads Vibe-Hastrup	19	52,485	24	15	Win	61	482,549
Adrien Mörk*	20	52,136	18	4	T46	271	12,020

* European Tour rookie in 2007
T = Tied
  The player retained his European Tour card for 2008 (finished inside the top 117).
  The player did not retain his European Tour Tour card for 2008, but retained conditional status (finished between 118-149).
  The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2008 (finished outside the top 149).

The players ranked 16th through 20th were placed below the Qualifying School graduates on the exemption list, and thus could improve their status by competing in Qualifying School. Álvaro Quirós improved his status in this way.

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	10 Dec 2006	Álvaro Quirós	Alfred Dunhill Championship	−13 (74-66-68-67=275)	1 stroke	Charl Schwartzel
2	14 Oct	Mads Vibe-Hastrup	Open de Madrid Valle Romano	−16 (69-69-67-67=272)	3 strokes	Alejandro Cañizares

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winner	Winning score	Runner-up score
1	18 Mar	Rafael Echenique	TCL Classic	Chapchai Nirat	−22 (61-66-68-71=266)	−19 (64-69-68-68=269)
2	17 Jun	Marcus Higley	Open de Saint-Omer	Carl Suneson	−8 (67-70-70-69=276)	−5 (67-70-71-71=279)
3–4	14 May	Jean-Baptiste Gonnet	Scandinavian Masters	Mikko Ilonen	−6 (67-72-67-68=274)	−4 (67-70-71-68=276)
		Martin Kaymer				−4 (67-68-68-73=276)

• 2006 European Tour Qualifying School graduates
• 2007 European Tour

• Final ranking for 2006