It is the home ground of the Box Hill Hawks Football Club which plays in the Victorian Football League, and the Box Hill Cricket Club which plays in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association.

The Hawthorn AFLW team's first two AFLW home matches on 4 September 2022 and 17 September 2022 were played at the Box Hill City Oval, with the matches attracting crowds of 2262 and 1108 respectively.

In more recent times a crowd of 5,253 attended a VFL game between the Box Hill Hawks and Williamstown on 19 June 2005.

On Melbourne Show Day 1953, the venue hosted a benefit game for the family of Ray Gibb, who had died in an accident in early September, between a combined Hawthorn–Richmond team and a Box Hill team augmented with VFL and VFA stars;[2] the crowd at the time was estimated to be 6,000.

[4] In March 2024, Box Hill Hawks announced a three-year partnership with Fuja Fenjiu and renamed the stadium as Fenjiu Stadium for the duration of the partnership.