It has been utilized by multiple local sports teams in both football/soccer, including Berea Park F.C., and formerly cricket (North Eastern Transvaal).
[2][3] In September 1882, a former cattle pasture a few minutes by horse-cart from Church Square was dedicated as a cricket field for Pretoria players.
By the time Walter Read's England side visited South Africa in 1892, the field was already known as Berea Park.
In the 1906–07 season, the Currie Cup was held in Johannesburg and Pretoria, marking the beginning of domestic first-class cricket.
The southern clubhouse was built in 1907, while the northern one was added in 1926, the year the Berea Rugby Club opened.