| 2006 Acropolis Rally | |
| Native Name: | 53rd Acropolis Rally |
| Round: | 8 |
| Season No: | 16 |
| Championship: | 2006 World Rally Championship |
| Previous Round: | 2006 Rally d'Italia Sardegna |
| Next Round: | 2006 Rallye Deutschland |
| Rallybase: | Athens |
| Startdate: | 1 |
| Enddate: | 4 June 2006 |
| Stages: | 18 |
| Stagekm: | 355.62 |
| Stagekm Note: | [1] |
| Transportkm: | 923.67 |
| Overallkm: | 1,279.29 |
| Surface: | Gravel |
| Driver1: |  Marcus Grönholm |
| Codriver1: | Timo Rautiainen |
| Team1: |  BP Ford World Rally Team |
| Time1: | 3:56:26.8 |
| Crewsreg: | 84 |
| Teamsstart: | 84 |
| Teamsfinish: | 69 |
The 2006 Acropolis Rally was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 1 and 4 June 2006. It marked the 53rd running of the Acropolis Rally, and was the eight round of the 2006 World Rally Championship season.[2] The event was also the fourth round of the 2006 Production World Rally Championship. The 2006 event was based in the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece and was contested over eighteen special stages, covering a total competitive distance of 355.62km (220.97 miles).
Sebastien Loeb, along with Kronos Citroën World Rally Team were the defending rally winners, having won the previous five rallies in a row. Loeb lead championship rival Marcus Gronholm in the championship by 31 points coming into the weekend.
Gronholm and co-driver Timo Rautiainen won the rally, their first win since the 2006 Swedish Rally and their third win of the season.[3]
The following crews were set to enter the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship and its support category, the Production World Rally Championship, as well as privateer entries that were not registered to score points in the manufacturer's championship. Twenty two were entered under World Rally Car regulations, as were fifteen in the Production WRC category.[4]
| 31 |  Toshihiro Arai |  Tony Sircombe | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza WRX STI |
| 32 |  Marcos Ligato | Rubén García | Tango Rally Team | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX |
| 34 | Sebastián Beltran |  Ricardo Rojas | Tango Rally Team | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX |
| 35 | Gabriel Pozzo | Daniel Stillo | Tango Rally Team | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX |
| 36 |  Mirco Baldacci |  Giovanni Agnese |  Mitsubishi Paris West Team | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX |
| 37 | Jari-Matti Latvala | Miikka Anttila | Motoring Club | Subaru Impreza WRX STI |
| 38 |  Leszek Kuzaj | Maciej Szczepaniak | Syms Rally Team | Subaru Impreza WRX STI |
| 39 |  Nasser Al-Attiyah | Chris Patterson | QMMF | Subaru Impreza WRX STI |
| 40 | Stefano Marrini | Sandroni Tiziana | Errani Team Group | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX |
| 41 | Takuma Kamada | Hakaru Ichino | Subaru Team Quasys | Subaru Impreza WRX STI |
| 42 |  Sergey Uspenskiy | Dmitriy Eremeev | Subaru Rally Team Russia | Subaru Impreza WRX STI |
| 43 |  Andrej Jereb | Miran Kacin | OMV CEE World Rally Team | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX |
| 45 | Aki Teiskonen | Miika Teiskonen | Syms Rally Team | Subaru Impreza WRX STI |
| 46 | Nigel Heath | Steve Lancaster | PSM Motorsport | Subaru Impreza WRX STI |
| 60 | Dimitris Nassoulas | Mihalis Patrikoussis | Eko Racing Team | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII |
| 14 | Dani Sordo | Marc Martí |  Kronos Racing | Citroën Xsara WRC |
| 16 | Toni Gardemeister | Jakke Honkanen | Astra Racing | Citroën Xsara WRC |
| 17 |  Jan Kopecký | Filip Schovánek | Czech RT Škoda Kopecký | Škoda Fabia WRC |
| 18 | François Duval | Patrick Pivato | First Motorsport Škoda | Škoda Fabia WRC |
| 19 | Armodios Vovos | "El-Em" | Armodios Vovos | Subaru Impreza S11 WRC 05 |
| 20 | Jussi Välimäki | Jarkko Kalliolepo | MMSP LTD | Mitsubishi Lancer WRC 05 |
| 66 | Konstantinos Apostolou | Kriadis Mihalis | Konstantinos Apostolou | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI |
| 67 | Manos Stefanis | Konstantinos Stafanis | Manos Stefanis | Ford Focus WRC 02 |
| 78 | "Kirkos Junior" | Ioannis Sengos | "Kirkos Junior" | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII |
| 96 | Dionissis Gazetas | Athanasios Papageorgiou | Dionissis Gazetas | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII |
All dates and times are CEST (UTC+2).
