It hosted the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, which was won by the country's national team, the Springboks.

Today, the stadium hosts both football and rugby and is also used as a venue for other large events, such as open-air concerts.

Ellis Park hosted six Test matches between 1948 and 1954,[6] but it has not been used for first-class cricket since New Wanderers Stadium opened in 1956 and is now only used for rugby and football.

The first games were played at the Wanderers Club's stadium whose grounds were situated where Johannesburg Park Station is today.

Fifteen years later, after the game between Transvaal and the World Team on 31 March 1979, the old Ellis Park was demolished.

A new Transvaal Rugby Football Union management was elected in 1984 with Louis Luyt as chairman and Joe Poolman as his deputy.

The Golden Lions Rugby Football Union passed the management of the Ellis Park Precinct to a company with 51% black ownership.

[5] The stadium was witness to an incident during a Premiership football match between Orlando Pirates and Black Leopards on 17 January 2007, when high winds blew several sideline advertising boards onto the pitch, striking a linesman and three players.

With 43 people killed, the Ellis Park Stadium disaster is to date the biggest of its kind in South Africa.

22 artists played the benefit, which raised money for Operation Hunger, a South African non-profit organisation.

In 1995, South Africa hosted the Rugby World Cup, and the final was held at Ellis Park on 24 June in front of 65,000 spectators.