Owned by Oslo Municipality, its main tenant is Vålerengens IF.

Jordal Amfi was built for ice hockey at the 1952 Winter Olympics and opened in 1951.

[2] It also hosted the national Workers' Championships in race walking, 5000 metres, in 1937 and 1938.

Since 1926, the road race walking events had also been staged from Jordal.

[3] After the Workers' Confederation of Sports became defunct, Jordal was also used as a national venue by the Norwegian Walking Association.