The match drew a peak audience of 1.3 million, which made it the most watched RTÉ broadcast of 2017, surpassing the hurling final.

[6] The following year, Martin Breheny listed this as the fourth greatest All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.

Cork's Conor Lane was the standby referee, the other linesman was Padraig O’Sullivan from Kerry and the Sideline official was Niall Cullen.

[11] The All-Ireland final was played between Dublin and Mayo, the second consecutive meeting of the teams in the decisive match.

The curse allegedly arose after a priest punished the team for celebrating rapturously in front of a funeral procession.

After 90 seconds of play, Dublin took a definitive lead as Con O'Callaghan scored a goal when he ran at the Mayo defence before shooting low along the ground to the corner of the net at the hill 16 end.

However, Mayo reclaimed the lead early into the half as Lee Keegan scored a goal to put his team one point ahead.

The talking point of the match occurred in the 48th minute, as Dublin's John Small, who had previously received a yellow card in the first half, was sent off for a foul on Colm Boyle.

[24][25] Man of the Match: James McCarthy Dublin captain Stephen Cluxton accepted the Sam Maguire Cup from GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail in the Hogan Stand.

[26] The 12 Dublin players became the only men outside of Kerry to win five senior All-Ireland winners medals in Gaelic football.

[27] Highlights of the final were shown on The Sunday Game programme which aired at 9:30 pm that night on RTÉ2 and was presented by Des Cahill.

The winner was James McCarthy with GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail presenting the award at the Dublin post match function, held in the Gibson hotel.