Marlion Pickett's debut playing for the Richmond Tigers. He became the first player to make his Victorian Football League/Australian Football League debut in a Grand Final since Keith Batchelor of the Collingwood Magpies in 1952.
The Greater Western Sydney Giants' score of 3 goals 7 behinds (25 points) is the lowest score in the club's history, and the lowest score of any team in a Victorian Football League/Australian Football League Grand Final since the Collingwood Magpies kicked 2 goals 2 behinds (14 points) in 1960.
Special guests included Paul Kelly, Byron Cooke, Dylan Alcott, Tones and I, Dean Lewis, Conrad Sewell and John Williamson.
This was only the second Grand Final in Victorian Football League/Australian Football League history not to feature either of the top two teams of the home-and-away season. The only other time this happened was in 1980, when the Richmond Tigers defeated the Collingwood Magpies.