The game is due to be played on the weekend of June 15/16.
Dublin and Mayo have only met in All-Ireland quarter-finals, semi-finals or finals in the past so this is new territory.
Mayo chair Seamus Tuohy told delegates to last night’s Mayo county board meeting that a request has been made not to play Dublin in Croke Park, according to the ‘Mayo News.’
CCCC may not fix the game in Croke Park anyway, irrespective of the Mayo communication, with Dr Hyde Park in Roscommon or the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick more likely venues.
Mayo’s request comes as Galway manager Padraic Joyce expressed a preference for Croke Park for their neutral round game against Armagh.
They played in Carrick-on-Shannon in the corresponding game last year but Joyce suggested after Galway’s win over Derry on Saturday that Páirc Sean MacDiarmada would not be available this time.
Meanwhile the GAA confirmed the second round of Sam Maguire Cup fixtures once the Leinster U-20 hurling final result was known.
Consequently the All-Ireland U-20 hurling final will take place on Saturday June 1 (7.15) in Nowlan Park between Offaly and the Munster champions, either Cork or Tipperary, who play their final on Friday night.
If it’s Cork to emerge, their footballers will have been in action already on the Saturday afternoon (2.30) against Donegal in Páirc Ui Rinn in their Group 3 game.
Derry’s home game with Armagh in Celtic Park, preceded by Meath’s home game with Kerry in Navan, will have the live TV broadcast slots on RTÉ at 2.0 and 4.0 on Sunday, June 2.
Three other Sam Maguire group games fixed for Sunday sees Westmeath host Galway in Cusack Park, Mullingar (3.0), Clare visit Omagh to play Tyrone (1.30) and Monaghan welcome Louth to Clones for a 3.30 throw in,
On Saturday June 1, Roscommon and Mayo meet for the third time this season at 5.0 in Dr Hyde Park in Group 2, followed by Dublin’s trip to Kingspan Breffni Park to play Cavan at 7.0.
Both games will be televised live on GAAGO.
The third round of Tailteann Cup fixtures will also be played over that weekend. In Group 1, Longford play Waterford in Portlaoise at 2.0 on Saturday, essentially a battle for the third spot in the group. Kildare will play Leitrim in Glennon brothers Pearse Park Longford (6.0) on Saturday too in the other game in the group to decide who has direct access to the quarter-final.
The curtain raiser to that game in Longford at 3.45 will be the Group 3 game between Fermanagh and Laois, which will also decide the ‘direct’ quarter-finalists.
Carlow and Wicklow play a ‘survival’ game in Group 3 in Parnell Park, also at 3.45 on Saturday.
The Dublin venue will also host Limerick and London in Group 4 at 1.30, a game to decide who finishes second to Down who top the group, irrespective of the outcome of their game against Offaly who are out of the competition after two games.
Down and Offaly meet in Kingspan Breffni Park on Sunday (1.45) which precedes the Sligo-Antrim game at the Cavan venue, which throws in at 4.0 and will be televised by GAAGO.
The winners will advance straight to quarter-finals. In the group’s other game, Wexford and Tipperary will meet in Netwatch Dr Cullen Park at 2.0 with third place up for grabs.
