22 September 2006: Sydney win the 1st Preliminary Final by beating a plucky Fremantle 19.13 (127) to 14.8 (92) at Telstra Stadium, and will now play for the 2006 AFL premiership at the MCG on 30 September, against the West Coast Eagles.
9 September 2006: Sydney win their qualifying final by beating West Coast at Subiaco, gaining a week off and a home preliminary final.
8 September 2006: Jared Crouch admits he was playing with a chronic ankle injury, a broken collarbone, and hamstring and lower back problems
31 August 2006: Swans defender Tadhg Kennelly will wear the red and white for a further three seasons
11 July 2006: Paul Williams announces he needs season ending shoulder surgery. With his previous announcement, he is now retired after 306 games and 306 goals with Collingwood and Sydney
1 July 2006: Jared Crouch's unbroken run of games from his debut in 1998 comes to an end due to injury (and does not play for the rest of the season)
21 June 2006: Paul Williams announces he will retire at the end of the season after 16 seasons playing first for Collingwood and then Sydney
8 March 2006: Tadhg Kennelly injures his shoulder at training and will miss the first two or three weeks of the season
22 February 2006: At the Australian Sport Awards for 2005, the Swans wins the National Team of the Year award while Paul Roos takes home Coach of the Year award
19 December 2005: Swans assign guernsey numbers
16 December 2005: Swans name three skippers
13 December 2005: Swans draft 8 rookies
Captains
On 16 December 2005, the Sydney Swans announced they would use three captains over the season, following on from the 2005 season, where they rotated among six captains after Stuart Maxfield resigned from the captaincy. The three captains are Barry Hall, Brett Kirk and Leo Barry. The captaincy will not be rotated, but each will be captain in each game.
Club list
The 2006 squad consisted of the following players. The list was finalised in December 2005 following a 2nd list lodgement on 18 November, the NAB AFL Draft on 26 November, NAB AFL Pre-season Draft and Rookie Draft on 14 December.