Dublin defeated Galway in a low scoring game, hindered by poor weather conditions.

Galway continued to remain in touch with Dublin thanks to two points via free kicks from their captain, Tracey Leonard.

This represented the second highest viewing figure for an All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final on TG4 since it first started to broadcast the fixture in 2001.

[6] In addition to TG4's live coverage, on 16 September Sky Sports broadcast a full replay of the final for the first time.

[12][13][14] Dublin[15]1 Ciara Trant2 Éabha Rutledge3 Niamh Collins4 Martha Byrne5 Aoife Kane6 Sinéad Goldrick 7 Olwen Carey8 Lauren Magee9 Siobhán McGrath10 Carla Rowe11 Niamh McEvoy12 Lyndsey Davey13 Sinéad Aherne (c)24 Hannah O'Neill15 Jennifer Dunne Substitutes:14 Noëlle Healy for Jennifer Dunne (HT) 19 Caoimhe O'Connor for Niamh McEvoy (42)22 Oonagh Whyte for Hannah O'Neill (51)18 Rachel Ruddy for Aoife Kane (64)23 Niamh Hetherton for Carla Rowe (60) Galway[16]1 Lisa Murphy2 Sinéad Burke3 Nicola Ward4 Sarah Lynch5 Orla Murphy6 Barbara Hannon 7 Shauna Molloy8 Louise Ward9 Áine McDonagh10 Olivia Divilly11 Megan Glynn 12 Mairéad Seoighe13 Tracey Leonard (c)14 Sarah Conneally15 Roisín Leonard Substitutes:19 Fabienne Cooney for Sarah Conneally (42)22 Charlotte Cooney for Orla Murphy (46)20 Leanne Coen (Corofin) for Mairead Seoighe (48)29 Andrea Trill for Roisin Leonard (66)18 Mairead Coyne for Barbara Hannon (67)